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What was your motivation for doing this?

As soon as someone doesn't want to be associated with a story critical of anything, the salt is implicit isn't it?

Considering the last few stories that have come out about how women are being treated in tech, what I've observed (and been enraged by) I'm pretty sure this happened/is happening still.

Are you just trying to verify the legitimacy of the post? If someone finds the courage to speak out, why would you then try to out them for doing so?

Does it even matter if it's faked if most of us could totally believe it's not? There are bigger problems being highlighted here than this individual incident...

But what do I know... Do you work there? Is someone trying to fsck with uber's valuation or something?
Good point, yes! I definitely prefer their stories to be shared than hidden.
Something tells me they wouldn't both go on the same trip, given the risk.
Many style guides either prefer positioning "A.D." after dates or accept both before and after positions.

Not following your preferred style on this point is not getting it wrong.
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It doesn't sound like you are a competitor for Pocket. It sounds like you are a competitor to Diigo. You might want to re-evaluate who your competitors are and do a SWOT analysis of them.
I am the same btilly.

Yes, we dealt with it fairly well. BUT not perfectly. And having gone through the emotional rollercoaster, I cannot fault anyone else for doing it poorly. Particularly (as didn't happen in my case) if the relationship failed to work out.

Looking back I can't feel pride in success. Only humility from knowing how lucky I was to avoid disaster. And said humility has taught me to be less quick to judge others as people, while being painfully aware of the importance of being firm with the consequences of their actions.
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What is IR that doesn't mean infrared?
I wonder what the life insurance policy costs -- though perhaps in this case these individuals don't need one due to their existing wealth. I guess super-wealthy people just "self insure" eh?
Nice tricks, it brings back memories from demoscene days!

I was just arguing about plain boring C code. :)
Seems like it's maybe lacking in due process, and beyond, has a chilling effect on free speech.

Why is the First Amendment such a red-headed stepchild? Because it hasn't been shaved as thin as the Fourth?
Its appalling she went through that and shameful to see people like this Mike #2 exist in the tech world in 2017. From what I can gather he still works there.

It looks like the HR department at Uber exists purely to manage employee pay and nothing else. They are severely defanged and pander to star hires. At this point they could may be replace them all with some API and be done with it.
"Have an idea! Don't come in here with half a thing and not be able to... after you've walked me to the brink. And say, 'We've gotta do this. It's important though I have no earthly idea how.'" - Toby Zielgler, The West Wing (https://youtu.be/YKSTkLWjuyo)

Robert Riech makes good points but provides zero ideas how to solve them. Relying on the goodness of CEO's hearts isn't going to cut it. That won't help enough people. How do we incentivize the behavior of employee ownership? Right now the incentives are aligned against that, as Reich seems to make clear. He seems to be advocating against more "radical" approaches advocated by Bernie Sanders because there is this glimmer of hope some CEOs will be nicer. It seems like this article makes the point that structural changes are necessary but the author falls short of that conclusion and instead gives glowing praise to a single CEO in hopes it will inspire a few others. It might, but that won't help much.
I think it's so that you can more easily compare things apples to apples.
"Not me... yet!"

https://twitter.com/RichardGarriott/status/83632784187673804...
Late Nights With Trav And Los - It's a Design/Coding podcast covering a wide range of topics.

I really like their perspective.
LinkedIn makes loads of money from their recruiting products. They likely care as much or more that you have a good profile that recruiters can search as that you spend time on the site.
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You're trying to play identity politics in an attempt to discredit any disagreement based on another layer of subjective criteria that you decide. What you just suggested -- that men are incapable of considering the credibility of an anonymous story told from a female point of view -- is sexist. When I believed in Susan Fowler's account, was I allowed to have an opinion then?

Racism and homophobia were also brought up and you're going as far to claim that the "baseline" for having an opinion is being female, as well as working at the same company at which the an anonymous author claims to have been employed. I don't fault you as I believe you're trying to make things better, but you're arguing against evidence and objectivity.
From what I've seen, a lot of of those MongoDB ransomwares actually just delete the data and leave a ransom note in the hope of getting free bitcoin. So in a sense they've done some good by removing it from the internet.
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I'm curious if HR will out her, or if there's so many harassment complaints lodged with HR that even so doing makes you effectively anonymous. You say that's unethical and/or illegal, but it's Uber HR, brought to you by the company that jokes about paying a million dollars to dig up dirt on your critics [1], and that lied to a judge about paying investigators to dig up dirt on someone suing them [2], [3].

[1] https://pando.com/2014/11/17/the-moment-i-learned-just-how-f...

[2] http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/15/12201134/uber-ergo-admit-l...

[3] http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/25/12274122/uber-ergo-investi...
> Hardly identity thief material.

True, but potentially very dangerous material in other ways. It's not hard to image kidnappers piecing together stolen audio clips to create fake messages as part of a ransom attempt. Or scammers creating audio clips to scare parents and extract money. A large bank of audio clips from a child could be used against that child's family in all sorts of ways, especially if the parents don't know the clips were stolen to begin with.
It is ridiculous though. Mozilla already had a sync infrastructure, it didn't need another service just for bookmarks, "only" a decent additional UI.

To me, the whole Pocket thing always smelled of cronyism. Someone is friend with someone else, and lo, Pocket appears. People get all angry, Pocket's hockey-stick fails to materialise, and lo, Mozilla bail them out...
Branding someone's concern for the well being and liberty of others as "identity politics" (or in other context "political correctness") suggests an interpretation of the world where the only reason anyone would empathise with others is to win credibility and acceptance from peers. It's a very cynical worldview.
That's the tipping point for me. I don't care about being ruthless in business, but you don't pull shit like this. No more Uber for me, although I enjoy using their service.
One of the ways I suggest people think about AR and VR is that -

One of the only significant differences is whether or not the skybox is filled in.

Broadly the technical requirements of the object tracking, 3d visuals and user interactions will be very very similar.

I suspect you'll end up writing applications with basically the same stack once we get there.

Useful applications across both VR and AR are more likely to be holographic in the sense that they are free standing in 3d space and designed to inhabit whatever 3d space WITH other applications.

The current VR "draw the whole world and totally control the ui" is this fields DOS era.
Pypy is as fast as or faster than c/c++ in some applications/benchmarks.

And with python (or interpreted langs in general) you gain a repl, a shorter write -> compile -> test loop, and generally speaking a higher rate of development.

I'd agree though, I do want some way to deploy a "python binary" that isn't essentially a virtualenv.
Hopefully this event will be 'market motivation' enough for them and any companies who will follow them. If this stuff is insecure it will be found and brought to light. The only question is will the good guys find it or the bad guys.
I have tried Payoneer but Amazon did not accept Payoneer account. How did you do it?
It seems like a carrot and a stick because it also reinforces the "SpaceX is special" narrative.
Maybe different Google departments have different opinions about such things. Chrome's error pages include a game http://www.omgchrome.com/chrome-easter-egg-trex-game-offline
Smear campaigns depend on the sympathy of outsiders. I can't smear anyone by myself, I smear them by convincing other people to believe negative things about the person I'm smearing.

If I can convince people to believe that someone accused me "falsely" by name and tried to ruin my career, I'm a lot more likely to gain the support of neutral outsiders against that person than if I go after someone who very carefully never named names.
Driving past their office has got to be a weird experience.
we kind of do that to our government officials no?
Very good, but that's just APIs. Now we also need an open runtime implementation for those APIs that will work with common hardware.
> The people with money (power) make the rules. The label is still "capitalism"

Which makes sense, since that's exactly what the label "capitalism" was created for.

Lots of people have, however, bought into propaganda that capitalism is something else that was created by capitalists after the criticism in which the system was named.
Please don't do this. Nothing can be gained from this.
Ask HN: How did you come up with the product idea for your SaaS business?
Hey everyone,

I'm a self-taught web dev in my mid twenties that want to start a SaaS business. I've been thinking about what product to build, but IMO every time it's all coming down to find a need and then build a solution. The thing that eludes me is how I find those needs and where to look for them? What do I miss? Is my approach wrong?

I can't wait to hear your opinions and stories from your own experience.

Thanks a lot!
I wonder what some of the considerations are for posting something like this under an alias v.s. attaching one's real name to a post. Obviously, one most likely wouldn't attach a real name to this kind of writing while one is working at the relevant company, but are there any other factors one might consider, aside from criticizing a current employer? Specifically, are there any possible concerns with being labelled a "problem case" and being blackballed in the tech industry as a whole?

Is the author's credibility hurt significantly by choosing to use a pseudonym, or is the power of the message not greatly impinged?

I have a huge amount of respect for anybody that has the courage to write about these kind of experiences, regardless of if a pseudonym is used or not.
More or less off-topic question. How to not get sued by overzealous copyrights holders?

I have an idea for an informal Chemistry 101 notebook. I might end up making comparissons between cartoon characters and periodic table elements: Hydrogen ~= Tinkerbell, Hellium ~= Master Yoda, Lithium ~= Philoctetes (from Hercules movie), etc.

It is not reassuring that most references in that list are owned by Disney Co.
Why is Python so popular in data science?
Could be true, but SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell challenged that report directly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjXYSJF-7Cs&t=16m31s
Waugh is one of the great writers of all time and one of the worst documented humans, who didn't go to jail or commit genocide. This article does little justice to what a stinker he was.

His parenting was abusive and bizarre. I remember reading one of his letters in which he writes (I've checked the reference - letter to Ann Fleming 1952):

"My sexual passion for my ten year old daughter is obsessive..."

Later in another letter he writes (can't find ref):

"My unhealthy interest in my daughter has abated. I now detest her as much as the rest of my children"

Edit: took out the part about him being mad - no evidence of that really. I just find recordings of him horrible to listen to.
Why does it piss you off? Why should the not use it? The government takes your taxes and you can't do much about it, so its only fair that you can use the government services as much as they let you.

Lets say person X wants to have a private bus system, would you call him a hypocrite because he rides public buses as well? I can except and live within a system and still prefer a different system.
You're right I misread the testing part. I'd very much still like to know who those people are and what their thought process is.
Hey, you're right. First flight of the Saturn V was November 1967. First trip around the moon was December 1968.
It could take 6 months just to find a job, get through the recruiters, pass the whiteboard hazing, negotiate your package, and give notice. You're advocating starting your next job search your first day at the company.
I would be willing to help

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Literature doesn't work this way... It's hard to get your first book published because you are unknown in the literary circles. One has to start with introducing themselves in literary journals (or even blogs), publishing short stories, reviews, essays, etc. Probably none of the acclaimed authors started out with a big novel. Then, publishing with a known editor is easier, and has many positives: their name alone helps increase the amount of potential readers.
Wouldn't it be great if the US had some place they could take these kinds of complaints? We could call it a national labor board or national labor relations board. They could maybe investigate these kinds of problems and impose penalties.

Oh right, we can't because Republicans. They weren't allowed to reach quorum under Obama and now they're fucked under Trump. This is the reality of the war on regulation.
> Medium isn't a court of law, they don't owe anyone any evidence and you pointing out that there isn't any is implying that they have a reason to hide their name that isn't justified.

You're right. And I don't have to trust what I read on Medium -- what I'm suggesting is that I don't believe _this particular anonymous author_ (and to be careful, I'm entirely willing to believe a culture of unacceptable behavior exists at Uber).
I agree, this is the only thing that I've been wondering, otherwise it really is, for me personally, the end of any interaction with the company, it is unforgivable if true.
and people wonder why medical and aerospace companies are highly regulated :-)
I don't think the comment you're pointing to is saying that she should have done more, but that others in the company should have; that to expect her to have done more is lacking in empathy for the difficulty of the situation she is in.
Color me convinced. After the next restart the explanation will also be on the recommendation page.

The logic was of course that people will go to the main page first and only search in a second step, making the explanation not necessary anymore. But in practice, most people come to the site via a share link and never see the start page. As long as the site is not widely known it is better that way. Thanks.
I wonder why they couldn't do the same thing for Vulkan.
Answer: We want less regulations all around so as to have a smaller government. The exception is when regulations prevent infringement on protected liberties.

For example, we support the Bill of Rights' 1st amendment which states the government shall make no infringement on the free exercise of religion. That's a regulation that protects liberty, so we support it.

And we are generally pro-life for the same reason: the Declaration of Independence states that every person has the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Since abortion snuffs out all three, we seek regulation that restricts it.

The end goal is the same: smaller government, less powerful, with less impact on individual liberty.
You could be a member of an extremely large group like the NRA and have absolutely no idea what fellow members might plan to do once they arrive at a protest.

Also I'd like to point out that often times that people committing crimes at protests often turn out to be opportunists.
I think part of what made Susan Fowler's account credible to many people was that she didn't use the same terminology as university political groups (trigger, survivor, etc).

The title, "I am an Uber Survivor", and the first few paragraphs, made me immediately skeptical. After she revealed specific examples of Uber's toxic culture, I began to feel quite guilty.
OK, Uber is off the list for my next company. This toxic masculinity, whose dick is bigger contest is no good for stable person like me. Good luck with your alpha male culture, Uber :)

Edit: Triggered Uber employee just sent his downvote. Pretty affirming. Good job, Uber :):P
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It is impossible to keep everyone happy at a company at all times. The difference between a company which seems to have happy employees and the one that doesn't seems to be the amount of PR spending. It is an advertising problem. Some companies managed to build that image by selective targeting. Otherwise how do you explain the churn rate of employees in the valley?
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There's nothing inherently "not good" with switching jobs, no. There's also nothing inherently "good" with switching jobs, either. It's at best a neutral action. However, given what he said he wanted to do, the argument is that he didn't do any of that, and just took the next job that came along. That the company he took the job with doesn't have the most ethically or morally clean reputation doesn't help the situation.
So one manager is below average at hiring and randomly hires people, ending up with a nicely fit bell curve range of high and low performers. Another manager is great at hiring highly performing people, but now if they rank correctly, you look at their assessments with your cheat metric, the good manager is 'inflating' their ratings. In other words, looking at the rankings alone doesn't do anything for actually enforcing quality.
I'm going by this:

> ... criminally charge people and seize their assets if they’re believed to be ... participating in a demonstration that ends up becoming violent.

By that wording you don't actually need to be associated with the group that is planning the violence. It may be that the intent is as you describe, but the wording as given here allows the police simply to sweep up anyone attending a protest that turns out to be violent.
Because that part wasn't relevant. If any company with explosive growth and valuation kept going at that rate for 15 years, they would be the largest company in the world. It's the idea that they'll maintain explosive growth for 15 years selling commodities.
Thanks for the hint about the device pixel ratio, I haven't thought of that (although it's 'accidentally alright' if on HighDPI devices rendering doesn't happen at full resolution since the GPUs often don't have enough fillrate).

The function implementations are fairly easy to find in the emscripten SDK, e.g.:

emscripten_get_element_css_size(): [1]

emscripten_hide_mouse(): [2]

It's also very easy to inject your own JS 'inline' into C/C++ in case the standard functions don't quite do the right thing with EM_ASM: [3]

[1] https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/blob/6dc4ac5f9e4d8484e...

[2] https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/blob/6dc4ac5f9e4d8484e...

[3] https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/porting/conne...
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
- Upton Sinclair

Selling advertising space rather than selling one's purported product is the epitome of the dark forces and banal moral failure that DHH talks about. But most YC and SV startups owe their existance to advertising, and they are psychologically resistant to admit such moral failure, no matter how obvious the costs to society.

More detailed arguments against the ad-supported "business model": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7485773

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8510227
I have no reason to disbelieve this but Amy please fix your writing. This has the tone of a teenager's Tumblr post.

Full of dramatic cliches and irrelevant details. (New Balance really?)
> synchronous logic design because everything happens in parallel, but it's a set of well-understood building blocks. Whereas asynchronous design is just entirely free of familiar reference points and there isn't quite the same set of standard idioms....Yes, you get rid of setup/hold violations, but you're going to get a whole new class of problems with the addition that "timing closure" is now a moving target.

Sounds like the argument about the problems and differences typed/untyped programming languages. One set of problems is solved with typing at the cost of linguistic expressiveness due to lacking and/or cumbersome type systems.

I'm thinking async hardware is the typeless of HW designs, but that also takes off the safety guards used from years of experience in synchronous design.
That's why microbenchmarks that have been on the internet for a while are quite nice: there's a good chance at least some experts from each language will have had a go and submitted a decent implementation.
Yes, Pocket saves a snapshot of the original, as well as a slimmed down version that's ideal for reading (akin to a "readability" version - maybe exactly that).

The mobile app also syncs the slimmed down versions so you can read them while offline. If you're using it for that, be sure to open the pocket app once in a while as it will stop syncing if you haven't opened the app for some [undetermined] amount of time.
In the same way that hitting a stuck bolt with a hammer is a strategy. It applies pressure sure, but you break your tools and the nut gets stripped.

It seems to a preferred motivation method though.
Making an automobile that people actually want to buy would be exciting.
Umm.... so nevermind your hyperbole about bringing a gun... Maybe he was referring to the other female employees we've heard were too afraid to speak up? The ones mentioned say... here?

> Other female employees who were his seniors often discussed in private about his lewd comments and sexist behavior but no one was ever brave enough to complain to the senior management and HR because the management is known to ignore the complaints and many times punish the women by accidentally leaking the names of the women over private chat groups.
I've never used emacs, so it's not immediately obvious to me how that's better. I'll give it a shot though, thanks for the recommendation.
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I'd really like to use this if it were just a simple command line tool as advertised. As it is, I can't really figure out what part of the source distribution to run.

The whimsical naming of files and tools IMO drives potential users away more than it helps in engaging people. Mostly it just makes it hard to find out how to use something.

The fact that zookeeper also is the name of another (completely unrelated) software project does not really help, either.

Other than these points, thanks for caring about making the web accessible! All too many websites completely disregard that aspect and ignore users for which these things are deal breakers.
A corporation is a legal entity, so to do this I imagine you must alter the country's legal code first?