skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your answers have a lot of insight. As a blue-state city kid, I've been struggling to even comprehend how a Trump supporter can even exist let alone understand how he was elected. From your response I can start to understand where they're coming from. Thank you.
So FOSS should be pure?
> How likely is it that it's just some TSA agent ego-tripping?

Very likely. And that's exactly the point.

Ego tripping and law enforcement should be kept apart at every opportunity.

For you this got blown out of proportion, because it does not affect you. But if it ever will affect you then I hope you will remember this thread and what it feels like when you're part of the 0.1% and nobody gives a fuck.

And everybody is part of some 0.1%, even if you haven't figured it out yet.
Theirs is cutthroat hyper-capitalism—in which wages are shrinking, median household income continues to drop, workers are fired without warning, two-thirds are living paycheck to paycheck and employees are being classified as “independent contractors” without any labor protections at all.

But many businesses are also struggling . By some estimates, this is this harshest environment ever for small business. Employees are being squeezed but so is small business (except web 2.0 and stuff like that), which is another component of capitalism
And what's the distribution over the languages, in terms of 'preferred interview programming language'?
>H/R ACTS AND WILL ALWAYS ACT IN THE COMPANY'S BEST INTERESTS. NOT YOURS.

Point of order here. HR acts in management's best interests, not necessarily the company's. It's pretty clear that HR's actions here are not in the company's best interests given how much of a shitfest this has been for Uber. They gave cover for people who were not acting in Uber's best interests and, as a result, Uber lost all their goodwill, they're bleeding talent, and you'd have to be delusional to think toxic norms like this haven't been affecting their morale and productivity.

Management's interests are separate from the best interests of the company. Shareholder interests are separate from the best interests of the company. A company is made up of employees, management, shareholders, AND clients all together. All of them are stakeholders and its best interests are the things that properly balance the needs of everyone to fulfill its mission or goal. It's neoliberal bullshit to claim that only management and shareholders matter, and the sooner we accept that the sooner we can make our corporate governance tack into a sane direction.
The word has lots of original meanings, many of which are quite disparate:

"Large price increases could trigger demands for even larger wage increases."

"His unpleasant remark triggered an argument that almost cost them their friendship"

"Studies show that lack of water is the number one trigger of daytime fatigue for Americans."

And so on. The usage you're citing is relatively recent jargon.
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This is awful!

Even ignoring the obvious moral problems with this, I don't think such a system could be as accurate as hoped. All the publically available face training datasets contain mostly US demographics (read: white people), and it's unclear how the system performance will be when applied to a data distribution that's dissimilar from the training distribution (read: nonwhite faces). I'm not aware of a lot of research about this.

Even if such a system could be built with 99% accuracy, there are hundreds of thousands of people that pass through international flights every day. For every false positive, your security people have to go through all of the steps. How many innocent folks will confuse the scanner and be taken into custody for false positives?

This is just a tool for oppression. Nothing more.

(See Part 1 of Scheirer and Boult's tutorial slides at IJCB 2011, "Biometrics: Practical Issues in Privacy and Security," for a great high-level overview of these kinds of issues: http://web.archive.org/web/20130412032945/http://www.securic... In particular, the slides starting on page 19 have more about this kind of analysis)
Are you a female engineer at Uber? I would think that would be a reasonable baseline for criticizing the credibility of this story.
Sure, go ahead and do it. But it hardly matters. We could also arrange a system to collect fingernail clippings and compost them to make fertilizer for public gardens for the poor. Its just that everybody's time is better spent on things that have larger marginal impact.
You should have added an Amazon affiliate link with that quote, I would have clicked it. :-) Ordered the Kindle copy based that quote alone. That, and I knew she wrote Brideshead Revisited, though haven't read it or seen the mini series.
> Amy's situation was grave, and kudos to her for getting out. But everyone should read these stories and burn this line into their heads permanently.

Yes but the company's best interest is to support Amy and fire Mike#2.

The reason is that if there is credible evidence of this behavior, she has easy settlement on par with Mike's value to the company (unless that is measured in 8 figures which is unlikely since at the end of the day, if they paid him $500k...they could replace him for $500k).
That's great feedback. Thanks. I'll use this as a todo list.

> 5. I didn't see any M.2 or PCIe SSDs in the storage section.

They are indeed still missing. I postponed them for when I habe a good idea on how to handle both a SSD and a M.2/PCI-E SSD without adding another static Box. Guess it's time to add them to the SSD section for now.

For 3: Are you still talking about the swap page there? My only idea in that direction so far is to have a second list that contains parts which would replace other parts, in that case AMD cpus that would replace the Intel mainboard. Maybe shown as combinations of what they do contain, like "AMD Ryzen 7 1700 + AM4 board"?
It's not the case--protons were observed first, and then theory was developed to explain them, among other things.

General relativity might be wrong, but it's probably not over-fitted because it's quite simple as far as theoretical constructs go.

And it has a pretty good track record. Both black holes and gravity waves were "invented" because the theory seemed to indicate that they should exist, even though there was no evidence yet. Both were spectacularly confirmed last year.

That said, we know there is some shortcoming in either GR or quantum mechanics (or both), because they don't agree under certain conditions. Dark matter, being a gravitational phenomena that seems like it might be a new kind of particle, is potentially in that same area.
Owning shares is not the same as ownership. Profit sharing on the other hand...
put skin in the game by putting your name on your profile or rescind your allegations
Why would someone read this whole post, and the main takeway they get from it - enough to post a hackernews comment - is to question the poster's claims of interest in anonymity. (And - let's be honest - therefore trying to discredit her whole story one chip at a time).

People like you are the problem.
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It needs documentation so that a fool like myself can use it.
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This is a joke. The keys are generated not stored. And searching your own private key would be very stupid, since the service can log all searches and then steal your bitcoin (if they wanted to).
Most people I know date their coworkers, you're still missing the point.
"There is no place for ethics in this business sweetheart. We are not a charity."

OMFG

I don't know if this is real or not, but given how Uber acts publicly about everything else (breaking the laws until governments are forced to amend the laws for Uber), I'm not surprised at all if this really is the overall attitude that they have for everything.
Then why make everybody get scanned (including US persons)? Or am I misunderstanding?
I am also assuming some fancy MBA jerk.
> It was normal for our supervisors to openly appreciate the performance of one member over the other and publicly demean members who did not perform as per their expectations. Chauvinistic, racist and homophobic attitudes were far too normal at Uber. Once in a group chat, team members referred to a new Asian American recruit as slanty eye joe. It was normal for guys to refer to other guys as fags when they didn’t participate in private parties where sex and drugs were involved. It was normal for guys to openly refer to attractive female colleagues as sluts when they refused to go out with them. They had private chats where guys wrote sexual fantasy stories about female colleagues and supervisors where they performed all sorts of demeaning acts on the women. I confronted the guys on my team whenever they passed lewd comments about female supervisors but never felt comfortable confronting guys who were not in my team.

Sounds to me like it was her team members also.
Lawmakers consider letting voters rank choices for candidates
If an employee works for you, you shouldn't be asking them on a date even once.
so this is a bitcoin pkey space test. where the endpoint theoretically contains all pkeys in so far as it is a generator function.
A couple of years ago I listened to a talk by a plant scientist from Florida. They had some experiments, seedlings growing in the International Space Station. Every day one of the astronauts took photos of the seedlings, to document growth. He said that it was more or less everyone's favorite task in the space station. "Today I get to look at the plants", the astronauts would say.
She specifically mentions confronting members of her team.
I wish them to be busy working for a living and to have no money to waste abroad buying a place in heaven for their princes by building salafist or wahhabit mosques. I do not wish them to collapse as a country... Even if the transition from black-gold to hard working might be very difficult.
It is with the hope that the penalties from getting caught will encourage people to comply with the limit of stay terms of their visa.

I've lived outside of the USA for most of my adult life and from the people I've interacted with, anecdotally, the threat that if they overstay their visa they'll be fined <insert large number here> per day and be denied a visa & entry in the future seems to motivate people to comply with the terms of their visa.
You can delete your Uber account here: https://help.uber.com/h/24010fe7-7a67-4ee5-9938-c734000b144a
Uber SVP Amit Singhal resigns as he didn't disclose sexual harassment allegation
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I get that, I wasn't saying it was actually a secret, just a conveniently vague conventional name.
Flagged the story for this reason.
I'm afraid I don't understand: as Spain is not a global empire anymore, the previous point (i.e. Saudi Arabia is akin to the Spanish empire in any meaningful way) stands.

I must confess, I find your logic quite lacking in sense or purpose.

On the other hand, I can't see where I called the parent pseudo intellectual. You'd rather look that up as well.
Here's an opposite perspective. I get plenty of value out of LinkedIn, both in personal and in business.

Personally, it's a great business card replacement. If I'm at networking events, conferences, etc. I also prefer to have my personal (Facebook) and business (LinkedIn) networks separate since I use them for very different purposes. On occasion, I've also leveraged groups to get specific advice I wasn't easily able to find elsewhere.

In running my company, LinkedIn also creates a quick talent pipeline and allows candidates to get a rough understanding of who will be interviewing them so we don't need to spend precious interview time answering their questions about our backgrounds.

I don't know of any replacements that do all of these things under one roof reasonable well. I do know of a few individual tools that offer incremental improvements over what LinkedIn offers, particularly in the area of finding qualified candidates, but in other areas (ex. digital business card) LinkedIn is the only real game in town.
There's an sf novel featuring a futuristic form of slavery, with a character who's introduced as a Director of Human Resources: only much later do you find out what that means. Subtly done.

(Your first meaning never occurred to me.)
Summary: Uber took that stack rank system that Microsoft gave up on ten years ago.

I wonder if their interviews involve the question "how would you move Mt. Fuji?", another thing Microsoft gave up on many years ago.
Yeah reading that made me realise the whole article is just spam.
Yep, that's what I'm worried about here. If the guy were accused of inappropriate conduct at Uber, his current employer, then it's entirely appropriate for the HR department to investigate and decide to fire him.

But firing someone for allegations of something that happened at a previous employer, where there is no possible way the current employer's HR department can investigate it, seems entirely wrong. This means that someone can be wrongfully accused of something by some vengeful former employer/boss, and never get a job again because they'll be blacklisted. It is not unusual for employers to badmouth their former employees.
Korean has two sets of numbers! (Il, e, sam... and hana, dul, set, ... ). When I worked for a Korean company, I heard the first more than the second, but I could never work out what the right context was for each set of numbers. I could usually pick out the numbers up to 20 or so, which was all I really needed in a work context.
For almost all of history the rich and powerful have had to play by different (more favourable) rules than everyone else. I suppose that the general situation is a better now since people can get into positions of power by means other than their birth and there's democracy, but in some ways much hasn't changed.

It's interesting to me when I think of a world where people that paid higher taxes (absolute values and not a % of income) had more votes during elections.
Okay, so what do some examples look like?
> I feel long-form print (specifically hard copy) is occupying a smaller and smaller market share year after year.

Actually, after several years of decline, print sales have been bouncing back in the past couple of years:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bo...
Funny this comes up! Dominoes used to use a single integer ID per order, and I wrote a tool to find out how many orders they process each day[1]. After contacting them (and receiving no reply!) they switched to a proper implementation involving GUID's.

Good work though, I had no idea the dominoes USA website lets you just enter a phone number to get order details. That's pretty poor

1. http://tomforb.es/counting-pizza-with-python
Mailbird is pretty awesome. Been using for a year now.

If you like thunderbird theres postbox developed from thunderbird
Yes, that's exactly the problem: it's psychological jargon. People started using it in a jargon way to try to explain to others what PTSD is like. It was supposed to evoke compassion from people if they understood what triggering someone was. Instead it became a point of ridicule and mockery, "oh, I hurt your feelings? Did I trigger you, sweetheart?"
A point of pedantry: Evelyn Waugh was male (and, briefly, married to a woman who was also named Evelyn).
I severely doubt such a contract would hold up in court.
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(Edit: I made the classic mistake of confusing iris with retina. Sorry. I assumed you're talking about iris recognition here.)

Not invasive at all. SRI's "Iris On-the-Move" product is a gateway that people walk through; a long-range infrared camera images their iris as they're passing through. As long as you catch a glimpse of the green light as you're walking, they can match your iris template. See "Iris on the Move: Acquisition of Images for Iris Recognition in Less Constrained Environments", Matey et al 2006.

(I'm trying to vaccinate you from this idea, not convince you. I obviously hate the idea of iris scanners at airports. My point is that unfortunately it can be done, and we should be careful.)
Is that the acceptable minimum there? Like the two years in other areas?
Not free, but Postbox is pretty great. It is a continuation of Thunderbird. By former Thunderbird engineers if I am not mistaken.

https://www.postbox-inc.com/
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> Anybody worth their salt is always always always looking for unfair advantages, cause that's where the money is.

Those people aren't capitalists in the proper definition of the term. Capitalism is voluntarism, which manifests as free markets in practice.
> I remember how the interviewers constantly tried to trigger me and insulted my intelligence to see if I break under pressure.

What the fuck? I'd walk and never entertain an offer from a company that spent the interview insulting and provoking me. Who would be stoked to get an offer after an experience like that, much less accept it??
Just providing power.
In addition, there's a huge difference between making a pass at a co-worker and making a pass at a subordinate. The power differential involved makes it automatically wrong.
This sounds border-line conspiracy-theory-ish, but think about this the next time you hear wealthy or powerful people talking about how to improve education. They might not talk about how education opens your mind, expands your horizons, liberates you from poverty, etc. (some do, and those people are awesome). They may instead talk about educating people to prepare them for specific jobs. That sounds great as a direct impact of education, but that's a hint that they're really looking for publicly-subsidized training of their future employees so they can get away with not providing the training or necessary financial incentives themselves.
fwiw, 14/16nm is now cheaper than 28nm due to wafer price cuts and improved yields
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Agreed, they should stand behind their words.
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Wanting evidence is privileged? Is everything but complete credulity now considered "privileged?"

She doesn't have to, but putting it that way, people don't have to believe her.

Has the word "privileged" so lost all meaning that it's privileged to merely want evidence? I reject that I'm somehow contributing to an oppressive patriarchy by wanting claims to be substantiated in the post-Enlightenment way: with proof. People do make things up.
There is nothing in the article that I haven't personally witnessed from colleagues (not at Uber--I have no connection of any sort to that company) in the past, so I wouldn't call it "rampantly ridiculous." This is perhaps an extreme, but it certainly falls within the range of behaviors I've seen other men engage in, and that my wife and other female friends and acquaintances have described to me as having happened to them.
> no record of whether they left at the end of it?

There already is a record, it's called the I-94. Used to be a paper thing you handed to the airline when leaving the US, now it's all recorded electronically.
More details, please. I'd especially be interested how the "in general" insight has been derived.
Noob auestion: why "Mike#2" instead of simply "Mike"?
> My default is "show me the evidence", but I believe Susan Fowler's account because she put her reputation on the line

I second this. Anyone can write a story online. I want accountability.
An alternative to NASA is an odd and incorrect way of describing SpaceX. NASA is a customer to SpaceX, there is no intention of being a NASA alternative. You could say they want to be an alternative/competitor to the aerospace and defense contractors though
Far beyond the point, which was KSA and the Spanish Empire are nothing alike.

Unless I'm missing a deeper point, for which I'll appreciate clarification.
"large segments of the userbase spoke out with scathing criticism"

Actually .. no. It was a very vocal minority.
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Donations to "Mozilla" go to the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, which does exceptional, meaningful work. Firefox is developed by the Foundation's self-funding, for-profit subsidary, the Mozilla Corporation (MoCo). MoCo acquired Pocket, using its own funds.

For legal / tax reasons, MoCo can only push a tiny fraction of its revenue up into the Foundation. This means that donations are necessary to sustain the Foundation's initiatives.
Then I suppose it hasn't worked has it. Efforts to unilaterally redefine common words are not always successful.

The word, when used as a verb, originally refers to a consequential relationship between two entities. According to Webster's something triggers when it "initiates, actuates or sets off" another thing. It appears her usage of the word is entirely and completely correct.
There's "invasive" in terms of "ability to identify you, times ease of capture." Irises (and maybe faces) are very invasive by this metric.

Or there's "invasive" in terms of how much cooperation it requires to match you. I think that's what parent meant. A biopsy DNA sample or interrogation would be most invasive, followed by maybe something like a cheek swab, then palmprint, then willing fingerprint (ignoring latent fingerprints), then iris, then faces being the least invasive.
The article says there was an investigation at Google, where they found the accusations against him to be credible.
The people who are against Obamacare but concerned about their Medicare benefits come to mind. Pick one. You can't stand on principle about one aspect of an issue and then change your mind when it suits you financially. "The only good thing about Obamacare is staying on my parents insurance until I'm I'm 26" <- Heard this so much from my classmates at a very conservative university, pissed me off so much.
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Your tone was fine. Don't pander to these people, please.
Turn on "Instant Sync" and new additions will be added to your app asap.

Also check your download settings. If set to "download only on wifi" then the app won't download if you're on mobile networks. You can also set the "refresh when opened" option to sync everything when the app is first loaded.
I signed up and tried to use it but I don't even understand how to add links. The search bar hangs itself (chrome 56) and there seems no way to manually add a link? Am i missing something?
>Travis is well known to protect high performing team leaders no matter how abusive they are towards their employees. The HR team was known to be deftly[sic] afraid of Travis’s tendency to blame and ridicule the women and yell at HR whenever they went in with complaints of abuse. I heard about Travis personally congratulating Mike#2 for meeting strict deadlines months after I complained to HR about my abuse.

This is why I'm skeptical of Uber's promise to investigate these allegations. When I heard that they had retained Eric Holder to investigate, my knee-jerk reaction was petty and cynical: "Great, retain a Chicago politician so you know you'll get the answer you're paying for."

I was a little disappointed in myself at the time, but damn. With this company, I'm starting to think that impression might have been on the money.
I was hoping to learn something like this. I was hoping to see other comparable activities though. Driving is actually much less dangerous than I expected in comparison to riding a motorcycle but I think there are other factors, mostly that injuries are not considered, only fatalities.
It's still useful as a potential filter. If someone's implemented your microbenchmark in langB and it's within 2x of langA, then maybe they're worth comparing. If on the other hand langB is 20x away from langA in microbenchmarks, you can be pretty sure that it won't ever be a good replacement.