skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Give me a break. When a successful tech executive says, "It has always been a priority for me to give back to people who are less fortunate," the Gates Foundation or the US Digital Service come to mind. Getting another highly paid job is not at all in the same class.

Says you.

If you have the opportunity to make a bunch of money moving on to a new gig, hire your old co-workers, and work on new technologies like self driving cars[1], I'd say that's going to have a much larger impact than picking up a hammer and building houses Jimmy Carter style.

Also, using the Bill Gates, who's probably 2+ orders of magnitude wealthier than Singhal, as a comparison point isn't fair either.

[1]: Guessing on this one as I have no clue what projects he personally oversaw at Uber.
I use Pocket differently than most people here. I never save articles to Pocket — I just use their Recommended engine to find interesting articles to read. Some of these come from sources I regularly read (NYT), but others come from obscure sources or big sources that I tend not to read for whatever reason. In a small way, it helps me get news from outside my bubble, and sometimes I'll end up reading regularly from a source I discover through Pocket.

My only complaint is that a large portion of the Recommended content is junk from Business Insider. Hopefully this will wane as Mozilla's priorities are implemented.
Although this post is anonymous, Given what has come out recently about Uber, I'm strongly inclined to believe what she wrote. If Uber gets into any more trouble then the board and investors will have to do something because the bad press would be directly hurting their business.

"Visibly angry, Mike#2 covered the microphone of
the conference phone, he reached over to
hold my hand tightly and told me to stop
being a whiny little bitch."

I can't imagine that because someone performs well at their jobs they'd be entitled to treat another person in such a demeaning manner.
IMO, mutt is the best mail client there is when it comes to lots of high-volume mailing lists. I can catch up on all my lists so much quicker than with any other mail client.
I'd be curious to see an organization scheme other than just tags, as I suspect that it leads to difficult to trim (potentially always climbing up) bloat and cognitive load.
The people that complain about mozilla stopping development on thunderbird seem to be the same people that complain about things like firefox moving to WebExtensions, and Firefox changing their UI, and Firefox integrating Pocket.

I don't understand why people are disappointed that Mozilla has stopped actively developing thunderbird - it means it's not going to change. There is an email client that you like, as is, and want to keep using, and you're annoyed because mozilla has promised not to change it?
I'm not generally a conspiracy theorist, but Trump is friends with the oil & gas industry, Tesla and the gigafactories are a direct threat to that industry, and GS is embedded deeply in this administration.

Tesla is doing what we as a world should be promoting, that is to stop pushing oil & gas exploration and pushing sustainable energies.

There is an energy war. Tesla is doing better than anyone expected from a science perspective. There is a lot of money at stake in oil, gas, coal, and electricity (in its current form).

I expect this administration to drop the EC subsidies at some point, but retain the O&G exploration subsidies.

The Koch brothers are probably somewhere in this mix as well.
Elon Musk makes mystery SpaceX announcement
I'll add that a significant portion of people I've encountered who have careers in HR are not particularly empathic nor "people persons".

That is, don't interact with them expecting to be "understood" as a person.

You may not just get a "no, we can't do that". You may well also get an unmentioned strike against you, for even raising the point or concern.

There are some good people in HR. Although, upon reflection, I realize that those I've met tended to have moved on or exited HR.

Anyway, my point is, don't just expect "in the employer's interest", be also aware of and prepared for a lack of basic human connection.
So how does society get richer? Is everything only because of government? Or some other thing?

All those poor immigrants that came to the US, when the US had 2% of GDP in Federal government spending, did they all stay poor?

There is a discussion about poor people and opportunity, but your statement is just plain false. Its false both empirically and theoretically.
So what company do you work for?
Here's a pretty cool interview with Valve's Joe Ludwig on openXR you can to listen to

http://voicesofvr.com/509-valves-joe-ludwig-on-khronos-group...
Travelers are not a big chunk of ride-sharing company user base.
> Where did they personally attack her? Please provide some quotes from the original article

You chose to ignore my questions, but continue to question me. Have you considered a career in politics ?

I am not going to play the definition game of what constitutes an "attack" with you, but I will state for you again the gist of this issue:

Centrelink released personal information that relates to her financial situation and relationship with Centrelink to the press.

> It is entriely up to the claimant to notify the office in change of circumstances

So she did, for whatever reason, not do that, was unaware that Centrelink wanted money from her, which they only wanted because her ex-husband didn't file taxes. So she tried to correct this tell them, that no she did not owe them any money, rather they should as her ex-husband file their taxes.

That seemed to have been a difficult process, which is common in large bureaucracies, but extremely frustrating, and as is custom when confronted with problems caused by the government, she too took to the free press to vent this frustration. One could say that that's one of the most important functions of a free press.

But instead of calling her up and saying

> So and so, you made this and that mistake, but also we get it, big organization can be annoying to deal with.

they chose to "correct the record" publicly by calling her a liar.

You might think that's a reasonable course of action.

I, on the other hand, think that if criticizing your government leads to them releasing personal data about you to the public, to let you know who's in charge, something isn't right.

I would think criticizing your government without fear of retribution is one of the fundamental features of a democracy.

Precisely because she didn't attack any person specifically, but the organization as a whole.

So, now I attempted to answer your question, and I ask that you return the favor:

What did you mean by the claim that The Guardian et al think they stand to gain in funds from this article?

And also: Why do you think her personal politics, or as you put it "I thinkwe know exactly where she's coming from" matters in this case ?
A milestone for DeepMind Health and Streams
> What happens if I uncheck the second checkbox but not the first? Does Smart Sync just sit there and look sad?

Is this a serious question? I've seen dozens if not hundreds of UI's that gray out a checkbox (either with or without the box checked) once you click a different one. Obviously this might not be an optimal solution for this specific dialog, but you could easily do something like:

[x] Enable Smart Sync (NOTE: This requires installing a driver onto your computer)
> tried to trigger me

Man, I really wish the internet hadn't decided that "trigger" means to anger or upset someone instead of the original meaning: provoke an anxiety or panic attack, like lighting firecrackers around war veterans.

Not that what Uber is doing here to "Amy" isn't despicable. I'm just a little bothered by this relatively frivolous usage of the word "trigger" compared to the original purpose for using it: to highlight the experiences of those suffering from PTSD. PTSD can come in many forms, not just from wartime trauma. That's what "triggering" someone was about.
It sounds like a good plan, making Firefox a platform for organizing information while web browsing, research, etc.

A question: what advantages privacy-wise does Firefox have over Safari on iPad and macOS? I frequently delete all cookies on Safari and set strong privacy options. I ask because I have transitioned in the last year or so to working on my iPad and MacBook, largely letting my Linux boxes collect dust. On Linux, using Firefox was an easy decision. On iPad and MacBook, Safari is more convenient.
This is part of the effort to detect visa overstayers. CBP tries to measure this.[1] As of the end of 2015, they estimate that there are 416,500 people in the US who overstayed their visa. They want to use the same identification techniques at entry and exit and match them. This tells them who's entered the US legally but now needs to be found and deported.

[1] https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/FY%2015...
A very sad read. Uber is in deep ethical trouble recently. Postpone that IPO plan guys.

Would not it be better if HR of your company can be managed by some third party with 100% transparency?
The client-side portion of Pocket has always been open-source.

If you mean the server-side then fair enough, maybe this acquisition will help with that.
If you think about it, there's an argument to be made that face scanning is the most invasive because it can easily be done at a distance without your knowledge. The depths of your eyes may feel more personal, but facial recognition is insidious.

Another reason I'm nearly certain this was face recognition is that DHS already has a database of faces -- your passport photos -- and thus they have something to compare to. They don't have an iris or retina database for U.S. citizens.
Sounds like someone who cant take the heat at the office. Grow a pair of balls Amy.
Introducing Handle – Boston Dynamics [video]
It sounds like a nice move to give employees shares in one's company. But what is stopping employees from simply buying shares from their salary? Giving them a high enough salary so that they could buy any shares they want seems like a nicer move than promising them shares in one's own company.

Also, people who get angry about this are often beneficiaries themselves - the article mentions the pension funds who own most shares, but who will also later pay most people's pensions.
Until and unless they have clear internal changes that allow female and minority engineers to work in a positive, equal pay for equal work environment.
I completely agree with all this, I just think it's frustrating for a lot of people when you see a terrible situation that's supposed to have judicial remedies, but in practice that system just doesn't work.
CloudPets teddy bears leaked and ransomed, exposing kids' voice messages
Sure. Alistair Pilkington and Arthur Fowle, between the two of them invented the technologies used to create almost all glass. It might not seem like it's high impact, but from the glass in office buildings, to automotive glass, to smartphone/tablet/TV glass, two highly impactful people who touched more than Elon Musk has.

Allan Alcorn invented Pong. It spawned and inspired an industry that grew to almost $100 billion, and the technologies used in video games have spread, again, to every aspect of technology, to the point that Microsoft used Cortana, a video game character, to leverage name/brand recognition with gamers in one if it's core products.

Bill Gates, for better or worse, transformed the personal computing industry, and has been on a humanitarian campaign for the last several years.

Setting aside food supply management politics, Robert Fraley introduced the first work on transgenic foods and continues to be a strong contributor to modern food science.

Norman Borlaug. "and is credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation" is the best introduction a human could have. If you don't know who he is or what he did, you owe it to yourself to learn more :)

Moving on to relative contemporaries:

Linus Torvalds made Linux, which as you may have heard, has impacted technology a bit.

Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau basically invented the web and inspired the modern web.

On the tech and financial side, Mark Zuckerberg has done quite well with Facebook, and for better or worse is driving connectivity into unconnected parts of the world.

Elon Musk is a visionary, and is pretty cool, but he is not exactly once-in-a-generation.
"In this City, you are innocent until you are investigated."

- Syriana
What is the ATL market like for entry-level developers? Is it that salary isn't adjusting accordingly or that rent costs are catching up to the increased wealth?
Uber is huge, it's recognizable, it's got interesting problems. Susan Fowler even wrote a bestselling book related to some of her work there. You get to work with a lot of smart people. That's a lot of motivation to try to stay despite bad things happening. It's easy to say in hindsight how bad it was, but I'd say most people want to try to do a good job and will expect some problems that they will just "have to deal with" with any work environment. But in the end, they realized the bad outweighed the good and they -did- quit.
Goes for any job really; know what you do/don't know, and know what you should/shouldn't know.

For some things, you should be able to trust others.

It's funny, because it boils down to "don't lie" (to yourself nor to others).
Because Republican politicians tend to talk about "The Free Market" whenever they talk about regulations and laws. "We need to let the free market work!" Basically, it's just the brand identity the Republicans have created for themselves.
Predator-Prey Population Dynamics in 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica'
It's in his SXSW talk.[1] It's the Google/Waymo and Volvo position, those being the two companies closest to a product.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj-rK8V-rik
Convolutional Neural Fabrics
Prevalence and architecture of de novo mutations in developmental disorders [pdf]
I don't need an article full of statistics to tell me the endorsements are useless; everyone I know who has endorsed me only did it in the hope that that box with 'endorse your friends' will disappear off their Linkedin.
> That's why I commented, by the way: to point out you may be misunderstanding your parent, not assuming you were acting in bad faith.

> Anyway, I hope you have a better day :) Be well.

Thanks, you too! =)
Having more project managers is how things get done. I see it everyday at my company...
This is not really an obscure secret.

Wikipedia: “Human resources are the people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, or economy. [...] A human-resources department (HR department) of an organization performs human resource management, overseeing various aspects of employment, such as compliance with labour law and employment standards, administration of employee benefits, and some aspects of recruitment and dismissal.”
I use a simple bookmarklet for Pocket. This consumes zero resources and works just fine.

https://pastebin.mozilla.org/8980504
Aggregating Pod resource (CPU, memory) usage by arbitrary labels with Prometheus
A lot of people on HN are exhausted by a lot of the political submissions. So many of them descend into inflammatory, nonconstructive point scoring, which is the opposite of HN's intent for civil, substantive discussion. People are often flagging regardless of their own political leanings: they don't want HN to have so many political flamewars.
> My default is "show me the evidence", but I believe Susan Fowler's account because she put her reputation on the line and I was willing to trust that she left, opposed to got fired, due to non-performance reasons based on being able to somewhat approximate/confirm her technical abilities.

... is a privileged viewpoint, and offensive to me. The author doesn't have to prove to your satisfaction that this happened to her to write this article.
If you believe the allegations, then Uber's entire management was complicit. Even without him assaulting anyone at Uber, the fact that he let it happen under his watch is his fault.

If their goal is to show that they've turned a corner they need someone who can credibly lead that change; someone who left their former job due to sexual assault allegations and presided over the cultural failings in their department is not the right person.

Not to say this is isn't scapegoating, but firing low level managers would be the same, since it sounds like the culture of turning a blind eye to transgressions of high performers seems to have stemmed from Travis.
I don't understand your point. Are you upset they bought Pocket?
But why do we want to identify visa overstayers who are leaving the country? That doesn't do us any good. You could argue that we're doing it to prohibit them from re-entering, but the vast majority of our illegal immigration are people who come here with no intention of leaving and thus will never be found on a jet bridge. Likewise, it obviously won't do much for terrorism prevention, because those people tend to leave the country contemporaneously with leaving the earth.

It seems to me that there are far more compelling reasons to implement exit controls if you have other, less savory motives.
The problem is that there aren't exactly a lot of other great FOSS standalone email applications these days. Everything's been neglected because of webmail, and corporations' dogged insistence on Outlook.

So if you think Thunderbird should be killed, what do you suggest as a replacement? It needs to be free, and run on Windows for my company to use it.
Thanks for taking the time to provide your insight and especially for the link so that I can contribute directly towards continued Thunderbird development!
Huh, I could have sworn at the time that that was the reason but C2 backs it up: http://wiki.c2.com/?GreatComputerLanguageShootout

Maybe they should remove 'game' from the title if they need an FAQ for it. Or even better they should acknowledge that it is a game.
No when enough wealth is created at the top, the people at the top want to generate yet more wealth as appetite for wealth is never satisfied, so they trickle down some of that wealth mostly as a means to create more wealth for themselves, which pushes the standards of living up. They create schools and educate the masses, to train them as employees that can do more complicated things so that they can sell those things to other people for more profit. Competition between the rich is what pushes everyone up.
Iris Automation (YC S16) Hiring Computer Vision Engineers
Sphinx. Or Doxygen. Or whatever your language uses (JavaDoc, POD, EDoc, others).
Because a company can print shares; cash hurts the bottom line.
You can be turned down for a job for a lot of reasons, personality fit is probably the No. 1 reason people are passed on (no data here, just my own anecdotal experience). I wouldn't assume it's ageism.

But that brings me back to my original point, you have to find a place where your personality and interests are a match, not just RandomJob.com.

If you have a higher degree in math, there is always another job out there waiting for you.
> First, let’s discard the HTML5 Fullscreen API, it sounds great at first since it provides a fullscreen canvas without any browser window chrome. In reality it is quite useless however, since fullscreen mode must be activated from an input handler, and even then a warning is printed which has a different look and feel on each browser. The kicker is though that the Fullscreen API isn’t supported on iOS Safari (last I checked).

In my own WebGL applications, I support the HTML Fullscreen API, with a shim on iOS that cheats the data that indicates the call succeeded. Since the majority of people are not-iOS (i.e. desktop-of-any-OS or Android), there's no reason for them to receive a shitty experience just because Apple can't be arsed to implement web standards.

> Emscripten’s soft fullscreen ... only has one downside: when activated, it hides all other HTML elements on the page, so it can’t be used together with an HTML UI which should hover on top of the WebGL canvas.

For this among a few reasons, I'm also trying to get rid of all of my HTML UI elements. I have a few buttons left for triggering fullscreen mode, but they will soon be gone. The initial setup is harder--it's so easy to just drop in a new HTML element--but maintaining a consistent look and feel across platforms is easier if you are using only one graphics toolkit. It also makes spinning up new projects a little easier, as again, only one UI toolkit with which to bother.

> emscripten_get_element_css_size()

The documentation on this function (https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/api_reference...) doesn't specify what units it returns. Does it return system-pixel values, or CSS-pixel values? I'm assuming from the name it's CSS-pixels. You have to multiply them by devicePixelRatio (a property on the Window object, looks like there is a function: https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/api_reference...) to get system-pixel values. It will vary between devices, but on many smartphones your canvas is going to be only 1/3rd the native resolution. It will also be off if the user has zoomed their UI with ctrl+mouse wheel, or if they are running a HighDPI display.

Addendum: I'm curious to know how this function works: https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/api_reference.... Is it using the Pointer Lock API, or is it just setting the Canvas element's cursor CSS property to "none"? Pointer Lock isn't available on iOS, Android, or Internet Explorer, but 'cursor: none;' won't let you--for example--mouse around in a 360 circle in an FPS. Given the existence of this function (https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/api_reference...), I would assume it means that emscripten_hide_mouse is just setting the cursor property.
Like a real interview then.
I hate to get into politics here, but I will say that the one thing that capitalists truly despise is a free market. Competition is terrible for profits. Anybody worth their salt is always always always looking for unfair advantages, cause that's where the money is.
One person's bloat is another person's critical feature. Are you thinking of install size, runtime cost, all of the above?

Firefox is open-source and (fairly) easy to build - if you really want the utmost control then I'd suggest this is the best way to do it. You can easily do a build that has no Pocket integration.

There's a cost to the level of configuration that I assume you're advocating here. Not saying we can't get better here, but there's definitely an impact on code complexity, QA test combinations, and stability.
This all seems reasonable to me. If you're part of an organization that's planning and abetting criminal behavior, you shouldn't be surprised when you're expected to compensate the victims.
Please don't screw this up. Pocket is amazing.
There's nothing inherently wrong with making a pass at a co-worker in the most general sense. Co-workers wind up dating all the time, and some even get married.

What is a problem is if you keep doing it even when the other person communicates a lack of interest and a desire for you to stop. That and, of obviously, other forms of sexual harassment. Note though that "sexual harassment" has a specific legal meaning and it doesn't necessarily include every incident that sometimes gets reported as such.
2016 seems a bit late. Also, hindsight is 20/20 and I do nothing for self driving cars
In my case, because it syncs with my Kobo Aura HD ebook reader. That way I can read "my internet" offline :)
She wrote: "Even though I don’t work at Uber any longer, the damage that was done to me by Uber’s work environment ruined my spirit."

you have stay until they kill your spirit just because Uber is a cool company?

I can imagine people keep staying there if they have to feed their hungry children and pay mortgage in a very bad economy, but not just because its a "Cool" company.