skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A: If the engineer has any reasonable alternatives (which they should have, as you're pointing out) it's somewhat indefensible on moral terms. Maybe, possibly, you could count this news as indication that the process is working as expected and defer judgement for a while.

More importantly, though: it's completely stupid to join Uber now. It's pretty clear that the work environment has always been the sort of thing that kills any humanity people may have had. With this investigation, the backstabbing will only get worse. You'll get there (without any knowledge of the internal structure) and have to navigate a maze while it's on fire.

Somewhere above, I'm also making the case of an upcoming Uber->Under transformation. They were burning cash as if Elon Musk was trying to escape from the Federal Mint. Now, their revenue is taking a hit and investors won't touch them with a 10-foot pole in an open relationship.

Apart from engineers, their management may at the verge of collapse: If your vesting is nowhere in sight (and I believe Uber's vesting is tied to exit scenarios, so good luck with that), it's time to cut your losses before Holder's successor starts the actual investigation. If there's anything suspicious with their finances (which people have long been speculating about, considering they stopped publishing them), you don't want to be an innocent guy/gal in a guilty org.
Cheating on a string theory exam
I thought LucasArts still owned the IP, but Disney owned LucasArts?
> NET USE C: \\JUSTIN_GRAHAM\DRVC

This must be the one and only, Justin Graham [1][2]. Congrats on your move to Unity in January btw!

[1] http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/by_genre/devel...

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinagraham

[3] https://github.com/Fortyseven/RA_1993/blob/master/UTIL/X.BAT...
And if there are any naysayers he will just claim executive privilege.
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LucasArts still owns the IP, Disney is just its parent company now. LucasArts is the licensor, so I'd still recommend contacting them.
I wish we take from this not that uber has a toxic culture (it may well have that) - but rather see if there are lessons here to help improve their own company cultures. The cost of a good culture is constant vigilance and such blogposts raise important questions. We should introspect and ask - does this happen at my company? What can I do to change this?
I'm not a lawyer, but sexual harassment is usually a civil offense, not a criminal offense.
Played around with Booknshelf for a while. If it was your weekend project, I think you've done quite an awesome job!

Glad that you've been thinking on the same lines as we did.
We started with a similar concept as a facebook bot and now have made it into a web app.

http://shelfjoy.com

Infact, I'd love it if you played around with it for sometime and make your reading lists there.
Okay, thanks for the info. I'm not planning on doing any web dev as more than a hobby, but it's good to have a go-to when I get another "client".
So this allows you to make Qt interfaces that are essentially collections of models in 3D space fully rendered and providing UI interactivity / information display?
They significantly dropped the price of the MacBook Air and retina a couple of iterations in.
yeah I'm just going to clone and download that because github is a horrible place for "historic preservation". Copyrights can be extended forever for all practical purposes.
Looking forward to sister blog "Inadvertently Exponential" and the satirical "Maliciously Factorial".
Michael Garcia at FIFA comes to mind as an example of someone (in a very similar position) doing an excellent job.
Oh, okay. Thanks. I thought there wasn't even such a thing as an admin for Grav.
Most of this would be a civil matter and not criminal.
Long-winded speech could be early sign of Alzheimer's
One use of type tracing is to automatically generate unit tests, as done by Auger: https://github.com/laffra/auger.
Why Ugly Blogs Rank High Than Pretty Blogs (And Why You’re Too Late)
I sympathize with your viewpoint here, but recognize that a 'crucifixion' may help change the culture and retain Engineers and improve their daily lives which would help Uber deliver it's product faster.
Using (serverless) Azure Functions and CloudFlare to Mitigate API Abuse for free
Personally, I don't dislike sexual harassment laws as much as employment anti-discrimination laws, but I do question whether they are really needed.
Asking Holder and Huffington to get involved is grandiose. I imagine isn't difficult to avoid being grandiose when you have a multi-billion dollar valuation. The thing is, what's needed is a culture change, and these people aren't going to change the culture. It'll just be another distraction.
I have nothing to hide, but I think the age when incognito and privacy options started being celebrated by the browsers was the worst period for me as a web obsessed teenager. Mozilla would have spent some energy highlighting in simple ways how the private mode is a gimmick that has uses but does not protect web privacy. In fact web privacy is not attainable for this and that reasons.

I blame myself for being stupid for believing that the web was about helping people reach progress through minimal harm. Sigh. Innocence !
We didn't have Internet for the longest time. "Browsing the web" for me meant browsing random parts of the file system and trying to figure out how it all worked.

One time I broke my mom's work computer by renaming the Windows (95 or earlier) system folder to be my name. She had to lug a desktop back to work on the bus so they could fix it. Sorry mom.
Agree with the keyboard. The 32gb model is waiting on Intel.
Facebook isn't worth $33B (2010)
One was found guilty, but point taken.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/magazine/only-one-top-ban...

None were found guilty in Britain as well. Nor did Congress enact any meaningful reform. Hell, Arizona has re-elected John McCain and he was a bag man for Charles Keating.

Seems like no one, Justice, Congress or the American people want to hold people accountable.
I was thinking about something along this:
get a random number (say dd'ing from /dev/urandom count=1 bs=2 or using shuf), then get the modulo M with number of entries in /usr/bin, then find the Mth entry of the ls, and print the man page. A file containing titles of already printed man pages can be used to exclude doubles.
The Debian wiki page appears to be about reproducible builds for packages.

The NetBSD wiki entry is about progress on reproducible builds for tools, kernel and userland.

As for packages, reproducible builds under pkgsrc is still a WIP.

My use of third party binary packages and pkgsrc is minimal but I am continually building custom kernels and crunched binaries with build.sh and I do make use of the binary userlands from releng.

For me at least, having reproducible builds for these alone is quite useful.
Holder may do a great job but even the appearance of impropriety must be avoided in these cases. Holder should have declined; Uber should have found someone else.
When you smell this does it recall the GitHub CEO resigning due to inappropriate behaviour per the findings of the investigation?

Surely you must understand how, if these inappropriate actions truly occurred at least in part and management was complicit up the line the company must be held accountable as a whole? That accountable is what effects systemic change at organisations.
Most curing methods weren't widely available to hunter gatherers because the required trade goods like salt. Dehydration was about the only option.
An airliner at that altitude would be well outside of any city's airspace.
I'll take the other side of that bet any day of the week.

I'm not disputing your assessment of the company culture or the VC fueled pricing. They're spot on. I just think there's no viable competitor (at the moment) to truly challenge them.
Wasn't it just said recently not to use Tor Browser? Why is it being recommended here?
So. You know those whiteboard interviews that software engineers love to gripe about? In software engineering, you only have to take those once before you're hired, and then you can start forgetting them.

In the Navy, you take those continuously, and they are somewhat more extensive. You have them at the end of your practical training phase on land, you have them at every individual job you qualify for on the ship, Naval Reactors comes and gives them to the entire crew every year, and so on. In my six year tour, I must have gone through at least 150 oral interviews of one kind or another.

On top of the constant interviewing, there's also continuous written exams, and various engineering casualty drills (eg, model that something breaks, and observe the crew respond to the failure).

If you're lucky enough to get stationed on a 17-year old boat, then you get to constantly exercise the fundamentals, too. As various pieces of equipment fail in new and novel ways, the troubleshooting process drives you to constantly construct, support, and/or refute hypothesis as to why it broke and just what must be done to fix it.
Holy shit. Why?? Is it around the same cost in Euros? I don't understand this. I literally paid half of that for mine.
Musk is trying to undercut delays by aiming for July production while only promising December deliveries, and by proactively cutting delayed suppliers.

They claim that delays are also less likely to a design tailored for ease of manufacturing.

You'd think these plans would be at least worth mentioning. In the end the essay comes across to me as just another "ok he can do X, but can he do Y?" sliding of goalposts.
> Google Authenticator stores the key unencrypted in an sqlite database, which you can look at if you have rooted your phone.

Interesting, actually that's exactly the reason why I like the TOTP algorithm over other two factor mechanisms. I can see what my private keys are, I can back up them, and I can even copy them to other phones I maintain.

Some would tell me it's not good for security, but I'd like to manipulate them in the same way I manipulate my SSH keys. It's just so convenient. If they are moved to TrustZone or something I'd be massively upset.
If a little more than $1 / day is too much, what would a really good news service be worth to you?

Wired had a pretty good article last week about the NYT's strategy that you might find interesting:

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/new-york-times-digital-journal...
Google Authenticator (which uses TOTP) is not the same as Google Prompt: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2016/06/new-settings-fo...
This is great info! Definitely gave me some stuff to think about.

I think I'll check out thesquatrack.com for some ideas.

Regarding your point about native vs web apps: I have never built a native app before. That said, I'm sure it can't be all that difficult. I have built my back end to be fully decoupled from the front end and work entirely through an API. Shouldn't be too difficult to get the data onto a mobile device. Something new to learn I guess. I have also heard about "native" apps; where the app is "installed" on the device, but it really just opens up a windowless browser.

Thank you!
> Actually no, if you want the latest, most supported tools, frameworks APIs etc. you have to use Xcode.

You can do all of this at the command line without having to use Xcode. All Xcode is doing is running a bunch of command line applications to accomplish what it does... it isn't some kind of evil magic, it is just a project manager; so close that broken IDE that is Xcode and write some makefiles: you can use the same iPhone SDK and use the same compilers and the same programming languages can you can build .apps and codesign things for distribution via the App Store and never once touch Xcode. I'm working on a project right now that uses app extensions and special entitlements and all kinds of crazy up-to-the-latest iOS magic, and I'm not using Xcode: you can too; it isn't even like it is complicated, and so I continue to have absolutely no sympathy.
1. I could be wrong but I took the original comment to mean he copy and pastes the functions, not actually writing out the algo for every instance (I don't think I could possibly argue that's a good idea). An even better solution is to just put it in it's own module with an implementation for each.

2. I don't know if I entirely buy the more code=more parse time being a real reason here if you're willing to pull in the entire underscore library just to get _.extend

3. See response to #1

4. I disagree with this, for the reasons you stated with #2 actually - I really can't stand bringing in one gigantic library for a single piece of functionality. It's the exact reason that jQuery lingers in so many projects when it's really just there to provide a coherent XHR request interface.

I think the general direction of smaller reusable modules that node pushed everyone towards is the best solution.
> Yup. In the case of GitHub several years ago, the "independent" investigation never even talked to the woman who made the accusations!

She never talked to Horvath (the woman who made the accusations that prompted the investigation) or Melissa Severini, the other woman who had made similar accusations against the same founder two years before.
Dan Ingalls (implemented smalltalk)

Jim Gray (transaction)

Chris Date (SQL, QUEL)

Gregor Kiczales (CLOS, Aspect-oriented programming)

Ivan Sutherland (Sketchpad)

Leslie Lamport (LateX, Paxos, much work on distributed computing)

Butler Lampson (Laser printing, Ethernet, Bravo: first WYSIWYG word processor)
Of course, you can make any assumption and come to any conclusion you'd like.

But you still don't know.
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It's not good to conflate healthy skepticism with the belief that one is an outright liar. We know so much about the fallibility of memory and how bias affects recounts of events these days.
3D Studio turned into 3D studio max which then turned into Discreet 3DS MAX which Autodesk bought out
That Holder didn't start Fast and Furious. It was authorized under Alberto Gonzales in 2006. Yeah, that Gonzales.

Actually, I had to review the history on this. Wide Receiver was started in 2006. Fast and Furious was a follow on in 2009. Holder has testified that he didn't authorize it. Issa+Company sure investigated the hell out of it although Gonzales never testified.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27/world/americas/operation-fast-...
You'll likely be downvoted just for mentioning the downvotes. Also, the tone comes across as uncivil, which will likely attract downvotes as well. If you're concerned about this, I suggest removing the last sentence and the remarks about downvotes, and provide some of the facts that support your initial statement. It makes for a much more substantive and strong comment.
Like anything, its a cost tradeoff. DSP can be much cheaper than active analog for many frequency ranges. You can certainly oversample your way to a cheaper antialiasing filter in many applications. But you can't ever eliminate it entirely.
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My attempt:

- need 23 bit string to fill 23 yes/no answers

- the test is 90min * 60sec/min = 5400 sec

- log2 5400 time-indexes = ~13 bit time-address capability

23 bits required - 13 bits given = 10 bits that are unavailable. You can answer 13 questions.
Android 6.

Auto-downloaded on my tablet; I accidentally installed it.

Wi-Fi turns off by itself; bookmark icons don't load in the Internet app; swipe and use pattern to unlock instead of just doing the pattern on the lock screen; other annoyances.

Not a single perceptible improvement over Android 5.

Stupid, ugly colors. Dark blue indicates that a feature (screen rotation, Wi-Fi, notifications, etc) is on? WTF? It doesn't look lit up.
> Sounds like she spoke to 'Julie' (i.e. the woman who made the accusations)

Horvath herself says that she never received an email from Rhoma, and (iirc) Rhoma says that she only reached out a few days before the end of the investigation.

Melissa Severini (who made similar claims against the same founder two years earlier) also said that she never heard from Rhoma, which is a glaring omission if you're an investigator looking to identify a potential pattern of behavior.
Yes, that's a fair distinction and I will try to keep it in mind for the future.
Nubuck is not a really well designed material. It's difficult to clean and maintain, and you can ruin your shoes in a rainy day.

But yes, Camper shoes are great. They even come with 2 years warranty and have a good customer service.
You're welcome to come walk a mile in my shoes. Perhaps you'd feel differently about who needs to create an atmosphere of inclusion.
Personally, I don't like this new update. Marco definitely made some things easier to understand to the average user, but I just enjoyed the previous design much more. It was a power user podcast app. It also had a clearer hierarchy, instead of the sliding up episode view, which is probably my biggest gripe.

Other than that, good work and good luck to him.
One thing Windows I'd really like is to make any full screen window into a "virtual desktop" so I can switch between full screen items using the Windows 10 shortcut keys (eg: win+ctrl+left/right).

Eg:
* Multiple concurrent Remote Desktops running in full screen? Make them all separate virtual desktops so you can switch between and manage them like you can with virtual desktops.
They don't need one viable competitor. Many smaller/regional ones will do the trick just fine. I travel all over the world without using Uber. This year I used them in Lisbon and now Taipei. Since Taiwan shut them down I just using a taxi booking app. Deleted Uber account yesterday. Never coming back. There is always a convenient alternative.
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Please edit title to replace "it's" with "its".
Uber is in the complex position of engaging in civil disobedience and direct political action in order to give consumers the freedom to choose new transportation options (which includes, but is not limited to Uber). As such, hiring a bunch of political operatives is necessary.

It also illustrates a big flaw in capitalism. Uber is spending a lot of money fixing government, and after they spend the money their competitors can come in and reap the benefits for free. I truly don't understand why so many investors are giving them money to throw at what is essentially altruism, but I'm glad they are.
Aye, that's fair. I figured GitHub would just be a first step -- I just started archiving all this today.
I rephrased the question slightly for clarity after you posted this: You're looking for the largest value N such that you can guarantee that you get at least N questions correct. Since log(5400)/log(2) is only ~12.3987, your approach only counts as 12 correct answers.

(You can do better.)
Let's play devil's advocate. Companies don't generally want cultures like these. This may be P/R, but at the same time do expect management to do something about the toxic culture. It's not as if it's in the best interest of the big wigs to have a dysfunctional management culture for their own sakes. If they are looking out for their pockets, they will do something about this... the problem is these sorts of cultures once they develop are very difficult to do something about.
Sometimes you only need one wing: https://theaviationist.com/2014/09/15/f-15-lands-with-one-wi...
So if I use a VPN to spoof an IP from a potentially depressed area (say, Detroit), with this system I'll get a 70% discount on my NYT subscription?
Seriously: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/eric-holder-wall-s...

Here's a man who just spent six years handing out soft-touch settlements to practically every Too Big to Fail bank in the world. Now he returns to a firm that represents many of those same companies: Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup, to name a few.
>He's not wrong. 'hueving's comment history around here pushes an extreme-right-wing viewpoint

Feel free to link to any of my extreme right wing view points. I'll highlight a few of my beliefs that have been argued about recently here to save some time:

* I think unions that collectively bargain are a bad idea for software engineers because there is a wide variety in expertise and pay tied to a title fails to recognize that.

* I prefer market-based solutions to most problems because humans on a large scale don't seem to be that altruistic. (I.e. Attack CO2 with cap and trade rather than tons of regulations spread all over different industries)

* UBI as people suggest it ($10k-$20k per person annually) is currently ridiculously unsustainable in the US. People talk about it as if it's as simple as a policy decision but we would need to double our tax revenue to pay for it, which could easily cause a depression.

* All conservatives are not racists, idiots, bigots, whatever label. Stories and comments that perpetuate this idea are shallow and lack critical thought, so I will call them out for that.

* I don't think things like hiring quotas and "heads of diversity" will solve diversity issues when the supply of new graduates is so imbalanced. Hiring people based on gender/race will cause people to think they are only there to fill a checkbox and not because they are skilled.

These are pretty centrist viewpoints by US standards. I would like you to identify something you consider right wing extremism and link it.

>because it's exhausting to be alternative-facted to death

Is "alternative-facted" a new term for challenging viewpoints?

>make the decent folks I know around here reconsider whether or not it's worth engaging with him

Interesting for someone accusing me of being extreme right wing to use a play right out of Donald Trump's book. Provide a completely unprovable and unfalsifiable claim that gives the impression that "many people tell you these things".
> The keyboard has suffered so much criticism that I have to wonder: who of those who condemn it, have actually used it for a sustained period?

I got a 2015 Macbook as soon as it shipped. Within a few months, the butterfly mechanism had collapsed on several keys. A couple Apple Store repairs later, they're still breaking often enough that the 2015 Macbook is mostly collecting dust and shame.

When I saw what they'd done with the MBPr for 2016, I decided to overhaul pre-2016 ones indefinitely, because it's pretty much that or Dell XPS13 hackintosh. That keyboard is proof that the devil is not only real, but has subverted Apple's once-rigorous design process.

The rest of the machine looks good to me.
It is Disney today. They own and decide.
Perhaps you're technically right, but she claims to have it documented, and has already shared it as per her tale in her HR efforts. The NYTimes would not likely publish nor Kalanick contritely move to investigate so thoroughly if it were so easy to repudiate her claims as hearsay. We'll know in short order as the company rushes to save face.
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Maybe then we'll have a PressScanner (like SkyScanner) service to find the best subscription prices
This person needs to be banned.
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These typically start and end with short sweat lodges. I know quite a few people who've went through the experience but no testimonials about hallucinations or death (amongst everyone I know who did this and everyone they did this with).

I was wondering about possibility for kidney damage?
Well, sort of, yes. https://play.golang.org/p/qyfqZA5pww

func main() {
go fmt.Println("Hi!")
}

This is a valid go program (eliding import etc), and it'll almost never print anything.

This is actually a classic mistake when starting with goroutines - not adding synchronization to make sure your main goroutine doesn't exit before any spawned goroutines.
Just to echo some other sentiments, please put this on archive.org for long term preservation.
Whats the best outcome? Just curious what people think would be a good outcome short term.
So how do you intend to get the people you want to read this to read it?