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> shouldn't they be first looking at people who have recently been accused of harassment

I'm not sure it has to be either/or. If they found out about Singhal's past and are trying to change their culture, then they should ask him to resign. Letting him stay because they have other higher priority harassment issues doesn't seem like a great solution. They can ask him to resign and keep looking into other recent claims, like Fowler's.
> Because what's the point of issuing someone with a fixed-term visa if you have no record of whether they left at the end of it?

Well they do have a record, from the flight
Why Clojure?
It seems robots jumped directly from baby steps to roller skating...

Add a quadricopter on the head and you'll have a crazy kung fu master...

Freaking cool :-)
Yes, clothes in public are disrespectful. Ever been to a public bath house?

"Hats indoors" is a superset of "hats in a theater" (ignoring outdoor theaters). Saying that something applies to a subset isn't an argument for why it should apply to a superset.

There might be a good argument for them being rude. The theater isn't that argument.
There's about .7kPa of atmos on mars. I'd have a hard time seeing how that would meaningfully influence escape or entrance velocity. In fact it should make entry easier because you'll have a higher resistance coming in meaning you'll have to do a lower deceleration burn.

Could you provide a source, of someone with experiance in this sort of work, telling me why this is the case? Why does this completely change the game? Why is a moon landing not the eaisiest "we know basically what we're doing"?
The security patches are largely from Mozilla's Gecko/SpiderMonkey/Toolkit work. The people who create the patches tend to be Mozilla employees. Looking over the 45.x Thunderbird releases I don't see a single Thunderbird specific security fix. [1]

The team that qualifies and does the release work for Thunderbird are volunteers. I believe that the builds are done on Mozilla hosted hardware.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/
I'd like to know the thought process of people who have this much money and don't want to orbit the moon.
Not for the Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy that will be used in this launch; it uses RP-1 (basically very pure jet fuel, AKA kerosene) and liquid oxygen as fuel.

The Shuttle and the new Space Launch System will use hydrogen/LOX, which exhausts basically water vapor.
Comrade, you ask too many questions. Perhaps we need to send you to re-education...
Note that NASA, I believe at Trump's urging, recently said they would try to place humans on the first flight of the Space Launch System (the new heavy lift rocket) - i.e., no unmanned testing first.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/science/nasa-looks-to-spe...

Is Musk still maintaining a relationship with Trump? When Uber founder Travis Kalanick left Trump's business council, Musk was still on it AFAIK. I wonder if Musk is doing this or announcing it for related reasons. Certainly Trump has a history, even in his short tenure, of pressuring businesses into announcements that suit his agenda. And the announcement seems to fit Trump's pattern: Impossible, brazen bravado. (Musk gives the impossible some credibility, but that's what is meant by lending someone your credibility.)

It's speculative, but it's also sad and a bad sign when we must look for government interference in the free market at this level, to provide propaganda for the President.
Is it? I know very little about rocket fuel, but I always assumed that CO2 is involved. A short bit of Googling "composition of rocket fuel exhaust" wasn't immediately helpful. :/
Not everyone is on LinkedIn.
Why would a manager be graded on how they grade their own people? Also, stack ranking "solves" the problem only because it makes the idea obviously ridiculous, because all managers would be graded equally.
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I would say LLC for all or most of your side projects .

You can trademark your graphic assets.
Shouldnt be too much trouble , most of this can be done online by yourself .

If you don't want a legal entity you better have a business moat I.e. real users , real usecase, or put your name , face on the site and brand it such that your side project=you
Mostly CO2 and CO, see for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP-1
I would say yes to every question you just posed. Again, just because the tech doesn't work to your expectations doesn't mean it is not ready for market. You're just being stupidly picky.

>> Even though you can't get a decent cup of coffee before a firmware upgrade?

I don't even know what this means.
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The flight is a necessary step toward viable interplanetary travel. Even NASA slung people around the Moon before later flights landed thereon. Gotta send a rocket up & around & back, with passengers, to make progress toward the "colony on Mars" goal, so may as well do it with someone willing to fund a good chunk of the excursion.
If I saw a manager do what she described, no matter how high up the food chain he was, I'd frog march him to HR myself. I don't even care if they fire me for it. We don't tolerate stuff like this in this century.
It worked before. Kennedy's moon shot speech was 8 years and 2 months before Apollo 11 landed on the moon. The speech was made before the US had put a person in orbit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T1ztqhYQ7g
It's not just for the courts: I do believe in innocent until proven guilty.

Why? Golden rule: given a role reversal, I would like the same consideration.

Please note that the "headache" this seems to have caused is purely an external optics one. Not sure how great of a team you would have if you cut off members at first sign of issues.

Maybe the sort of dysfunctional mess Uber seems to have.

Internal, not external, optics are vastly more important in a company.
As long as you stay near the Earth (the moon is close enough), our magnetosphere will protect you from radiation.

When you get interplanetary, like on a trip to Mars, radiation exposure becomes arguable the most difficult problem to solve.
The problem with the Orion is that there simply aren't many useful missions. Orion can also go around the moon, just like Dragon 2, but for both craft that is the end of the line (at least for Crewed versions).

The difference is that Orion cost about as much as Dragon 1, Dragon 2, Falcon and Falcon Heavy combined. If we add the cost of a SLS launch it goes into another dimension of cost.
No. I don't.

I meant that in the context of the overall experiences in women in tech, not women at uber or anything more specific than that.

Let me try to rephrase.. Would you be shocked that this sort of thing goes on? I would not. My only point was that the bigger problem is exactly THAT lack of surprise, and not the legitimacy of the post; and that's what we should be talking about.

I don't trust anything about the post, even if it was intentionally labelled as fiction; I'd feel the same way.
The answer, by the way, is to light one of the ropes on fire on both ends, the other on a single end. When the first is done, the second has half the time left and you can time whatever contrived thing you're timing with rope.
Where is Mike #1?
I'm not gonna lie...I'd be fine with several directors resigning.
in case there are two "mike"s close to travis. 2 was hired after 1.
I know, it's like some bizarre hazing ritual.
"If they dont stand up for themselves on any level, then they simply arent being abused"

This is, hands down, the worst take ever.
He turned an app into a company worth 70 billion and never saw any reason to change course until now (hopefully).
I think you misunderstood my post. My parent post argued that a mass-proportional charge imbalance big enough to cause a measurable change in gravitation would have catastrophic consequences for planets. Indeed, this is not true, the effects on the planet are of the same scale, i.e. ridiculously small.

Of course, as I wrote, both laws follow the same power-law, so this can not solve the dark matter problem. Indeed you can absorb it in the gravitational constant.

I also did not suggest that electromagnetism should be different at the scale of solar systems.

A test of the charge equivalence of protons and electrons to 8 digits is by far not good enough to rule this out. You have to probe the proton charge to ~1E-20 for a 1% change of the gravitational effect. This is beyond the reach even for atomic level measurements.
More interesting are the bounds on charge conservation.
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I think this is far from truth, never mind hard truth and your example is way off point. I would say there are actions which clearly don't need an indication from the aggrieved party to recognise as abuse, such as seriously telling someone to "quit being a whiny bitch" from a position of power, in front of a team, in the workplace. You don't need to be a mind reader to understand this is not acceptable behaviour.

There are clearly cases in which attempting to stand up to abusive behaviour has the potential to cause more problems (at the very least in the short term) than by staying silent - it's no surprise this occurs in domestic situations. Can you not empathise with people who feel this way, that maybe there are good reasons to not express the discomfort?
> Suppose you have a pattern of behavior around me that offends and discomforts me. If I speak out, and complain, and you continue, you are probably being abusive (although not necessarily.) On the otherhand, if I make no attempt to express my discomfort in any way (doesnt mean verbal, could be anything), then the fault lies with ME, the supposed victim.

Bullshit. This kind of criticism might occasionally apply when the conduct in question falls into a grey area, or when it's not predictably offensive to literally any adult human with two brain cells to rub together, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the sort of situation described in this article. And you should be ashamed to say such things in a discussion about someone being sexually assaulted in the workplace.
So does the CBP scan being discussed
Wow, I think a lot of people learn from their successes and mistakes in previous jobs and bring that knowledge into their next job.

It does not seem appropriate to fire someone who hasn't acted badly in his current job. The opportunity for finding out about his past was before he was offered the position.
The Earth has a full atmosphere with winds, an expansive array of magnetic and electric fields, and a much much higher gravitational pull then Mars or the moon. About a factor of 10 removed from mars and about a further factor of 10 removed from the moon.

You'd obviously need more fuel, and fuel that can burn in a completely different atmosphere then it's intended to run in. It's an invalid test for the kind of useful metrics that would be obtainable in a "pure" vacume out in space.
Walk up to the checkpoint, do the security thing, and keep walking. Easy peasy.
I seem to me that Recode started investigating Uber, and uncovered this.
There were how many $1000 deposits on Model 3s?
I think the idea behind real-world software performance is that "if you need it, you really need to have it, but most of the time you don't need it." The benchmarks game isn't all that unrealistic for this. Most of the time, you won't care about performance at all. When you do care about performance, you'll be able to devote an experienced engineer to carefully optimize a specific hot spot, not unlike a microbenchmark. It matters how fast you can get the code to go when it's a hot spot, not how fast all your little support code runs.

My one complaint is that there's no benchmark that measures FFI performance. Realistically, if you build a system in Python or Ruby - you're going to be dropping down to C for your hot spots. And so scripting language performance on all these compute-intensive tasks is somewhat irrelevant, you really want to know how much overhead you'll incur crossing the scripting/C boundary (which, in my experience can sometimes be large enough that it wipes out all the gains of coding in C in the first place).
Actually time will solve this problem very easily. Uber does not have to do any thing differently. (Its not a recommendation).

Every successful company has these problems. Success attracts ambitious people and many of these high achievers accomplish their goals ruthlessly. In this process some other people who have different priorities feel left behind. Its just the way of life.

Take all the ambitious people and throw a challenging problem at them that can humble them other than that there is PR. PR expert will come out and tell you that not all teams in uber are bad, some of them are really good and the routine stuff we hear about any other big company.
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Someone still has to man the lengthy manufacturing and supply chains to build these things and their consumables plus someone needs to be deployed into the theater of operations to perform logistical support and maintenance to keep your hypothetical killbots in action. (Automated manufacturing is one thing, automated diagnosis and repair is quite another.)

Someone also has to have acquired enough military expertise to command these units effectively, something "a certain technical elite" feels is beneath them.
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Is survivor really the right word here?

The pointless hyperbole makes it easy for those who would want so (subconsciously or not) to discard the real story here, of the toxic company culture.
That's exactly what a nonprofit is. Nonprofits are corporations like any other, with a few key differences:

- Instead of shareholders, nonprofits have members. Members don't own the corporation (no one does) but control it insofar that they hire-and-fire its directors.

- Memberships normally can't be sold, and nonprofits have no equivalent to dividends.

- There are stronger conflict-of-interest protections, preventing officers from signing cheques to themselves or otherwise using the corporation's resources for their personal benefit - at least without someone else's approval.

A typical setup for nonprofits is to tie memberships to being a director, so that current board members choose their own successors. This is known as a "self-perpetuating board".
is housing outside the valley core just as expensive, how about north bay such as sausalito or berkeley?
The difference between a human-cargo test run of days vs months/years is substantial.
OK. Edited.
Sometimes when I click Replay, it autofails me and moves to the next question.
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Put it behind the webapp's authentication and access control layer - so only logged in users with relevant connection/permission to the requested image can get it.
Consumer action like boycotts and social media posting is nice, but I think the solution to this problem is lawsuits. Victims can seek redress through the courts, which both compensates them and holds the company directly to account for their actions.

For a lot of reasons participating in lawsuits is challenging for the victims, and I am in no way criticizing any individual for not going through all of that. I just think that really making an impact is going to require more than a few hundred app deletions and some bad PR.
That's a coin with a flipside though: you also don't need much in terms of heatshields so in that sense it is easier than on Mars.

A Mars landing needs both heatshields (because it does have an atmosphere) and retro-rockets to land with (because that atmosphere is not so dense that you can use it for gliding).
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and has never run for elected office.
NASA agreed to do a study to see if they could place humans on the test flight. That seems to me like the NASA equivalent of saying "Sure, I'll look into that" while trying to not look horrified.

I'm pretty sure that study will conclude that this is a bad idea.
The best part of this post is the links to some awesome videos, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTn77uCYU_8
Of course, but the parent comment didn't say that.

If they're going to implement this, obviously they're going to implement it at every border crossing for it to be of any use whatsoever...
Stack ranking is not a rating system. In a normal rating system, fi you have a team of all-star engineers you can give everyone 4/5 or 5/5. In a stack ranking system, you have (for example) two slots for 5/5, two slots for 1/5, etc. This means that even if you have the ten best engineers in the company on your team, two of them are going to get the lowest possible rating (and thus be unable to leave the team). They won't get promotions, they won't get bonuses, and they won't be appreciated.

The problem with stack ranking isn't that employees can be ranked higher or lower than one another (as in any normal rating system), it's that you absolutely have to give someone a failing mark, even if no one actually failed.

This means that if you get transferred to a team where everyone is highly skilled, then you run a real chance of being the person who gets ranked terrible and can never get a raise or promotion unless your other teammates leave – or unless you sabotage their progress or refuse to help them in an effort to try to lower their performance.
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Did you miss literally every other part of the article?

She wouldn't have needed to approach HR in the first place if not for the systemic abuse from males within the company.
HR exists to protect companies, not employees. I don't know why people ever think going to HR is a good idea. Go to a lawyer, and let that lawyer go to HR.
What especially annoys me about the Uber's management is that they believe themselves to be tough and no-nonsense - but in reality their behaviour is self-destructive. In other words, they are delusional and arrogant, not practical and reality-oriented. I have worked with people like this, though they were not as extreme as Uber.

Travis Kalanick is often painted as an example of Ayn Rand's philosophy in action. [1] I don't doubt he follows his own shallow understanding of her ideas. Still, what she actually said was that it's in your rational self-interest to treat everyone you deal with fairly and trade value for value. I.e., you need ethics to succeed in business.

John Allison of BB&T bank explains this principled approach better than I can [2]. He grew BB&T into a top 10 American bank, but he's the polar opposite of the stereotypical ruthless capitalist.

If you screw people over, you may gain a short-term advantage, but you will inevitably fail in the long-run. Enron, Zynga, Groupon, and countless others have proved this.

[1] https://pando.com/2012/10/24/travis-shrugged/

[2] https://youtu.be/XPSGMbqEGU0?t=3m12s
I don't know the motivation. Perhaps someone feels harassment is a real problem, but can't find any real examples of it, so feels the need to tell lies for a good cause? Perhaps someone merely wants to harm Uber? They certainly have no shortage of people who hate them.

But regardless of motivation, the facts show that many people are willing to fake stories just to support their "team". Sometimes they do this at great personal risk and cost, e.g. lighting their own truck on fire or making false police reports. As an example of one category, there have been many such incidents since Nov 7:

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2016/12/23/denton-man-s...
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/12/14/hate-hoax-nyc-musl... http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/real-time/S-Jersey-man-ar... http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/ann-arbor-police-womans-s... http://patch.com/new-york/gardencity/man-who-drew-swastikas-...

So it's hardly beyond the realm of possibility that such a person took an hour to write a medium post in an incognito window for such purposes.
Scapegoating.
Yes. You don't pay less, but you get more/bigger. So many people just tough it out and optimise for a short commute, instead of a big place. The cost savings is also offset by paying for parking, since public transportation is very limited.
Clearly sarcasm.
Even though I don't agree with everything you're saying w.r.t government incentivization of particular social structures, I respect that it's as reasonable as any other political standpoint. However, it's objectively wrong to claim that such policies are in any way "small government"; you're just centrally planning the social structure instead of the economic structure. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely possible that this is a good idea. However, it's pretty much the definition of "big government".
60-ish? More like 50-ish. I remember those landings and I'm nowhere near 60.

Weirdest thing, I can't delete this comment now that the other comment has been fixed.
She is very careful but smart about her article. Title reads "Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber", doesn't seem very accusatory to me, however this only makes the what the article presents even more absurd.
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His reason for leaving Google (a "credible" sexual harassment allegation) is a liability for Uber. If he had disclosed it before he was offered the position, he likely would not have been offered it.

It seems completely appropriate for a company to take steps to limit their liabilities.
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Of course, when somebody releases a proof of concept, it'll be called RansomBear.
Private companies without investors also elude the problems in the post, of course. (Though in both cases you may have to deal with an Uber-type competitor willing to subsidize its operations for long periods - something of dubious legality, but it still happens.)

Note that if you begin as a public benefit corporation, raising funds will be obstacle number one, since you must compete not just in your market with current-model companies, but also compete with them for funds. So no wonder it's more common for successful private companies to pay back their investors and then transform themselves into public benefit companies. This is still useful as an option, but hardly more than a start at a solution. Unless laws are changed, of course. If the law allowed public companies to change to a public benefit corporation without warning regardless of investor's opinion that would be a huge change - but might thoroughly discourage investment, of course.
That's partly because you travel so much more distance in a motorcycle per unit of time. (Probably at least 20x depending upon how the statistics were derived.)

It also points to another problem with this sort of data. While there are certainly deaths in challenging whitewater, a lot of canoeing deaths involve combinations like alcohol+no PFDs+cold water at night.
Seconded!

Mutt is the only way I can keep up with my mail volume. The only time the UI doesn't react instantly is when it loads huge mailboxes. And it still does that faster than I've seen graphical clients load the same mailbox.

Add to that pretty much infinite customization, and it does indeed suck less.

If you have to deal with large amounts of mail for pretty much whatever reason, you can do it faster with mutt than with any other client I've ever used. Yes, there is a learning curve. It isn't a vim-style learning curve, but it is there. But if you're considering a command line MUA at all, you can handle it.
How on Earth (pun intended) would that help?
I know. What I'm struck by in all this is that much of Uber's staff must be really junior. Not just the assholes at the center of these stories, but everyone else around these incidents. Which kind of contradicts the idea that they are a bunch of high performers.
As an interesting bit of trivia: the most prevalent greenhouse gas in the atmosphere? Water vapor.