skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The inquisition is back and you too could be a heretic soon.
This reads like #SJW #cismale_hate porn. I'm inclined to believe the entire blog is complete fiction, and with changed names, it might as well be.

It does nothing but cater to confirmation bias of those already inclined to hate Uber culture (with or without good reason. I'm not an insider, so the original allegations may be 100% correct, but that is completely orthogonal to this blog).

Fiction like this is incredibly harmful to those who have legitimate concerns about company culture and have actually been harassed without consequence, because it drowns their voices in pandering fanfic that reads like it was written by a teenager with a savior complex.
I was a Kickstarter supporter for that book, so I'm glad to see that others are liking and recommending it.

Thanks!
Amy, many people believe your story. But based on the flags this story is getting, many don't, at least not yet.

Is there any way you can verify the authenticity of your story without losing your anonymity to the public? For example, would Susan be able to verify you as an ex-employee?
Quite right in your point. Myself and people close to me know that first-hand. Also, lots of businesses are started by ex-employees who've been squeezed out of their former position.

However the article is careful to distinguish between financial/corporate elites and small business (whose owners are generally not of the former group). It's almost misleading calling both small businesses and large corps "businesses". It's like ignoring the difference between a house cat and a lion in a debate about how one might goose-step on the other.
I actually think this is a very important process in order to get rid of the weight a word carries.
The "triggered" lead us to "triggered snowflakes". "Fake news" has undergone a similar transformation, ie from a term of old media brands branding themselves as the "real news" authority, towards now an ironic term for anything you don't like. What impresses me the most is how fast these tonalities change.
> multi-millions in damages. It's surprising

> to me that neither have pursued Uber in this regard.

I also find this surprising to the point of puzzling. Yes, HR (+legal) works for the company, ALWAYS. However, protecting the company from multi-million dollar lawsuits and potential negative publicity certainly falls within the remit, and removing offenders and mollifying victims would be the way to go.

So something doesn't quite add up, and I have a hard time believing "oh, we know that they won't sue" would be sufficient. Then again...hubris.
For some people i know who have PTSD and/or deal with people with PTSD, an attack can mean complete personality and identity disassociation that absolutely requires police involvement and in the aftermath of which having neither them nor anyone else die is a blessing. And that's with people who're entirely excellent at any other minute in their life.

As such, i entirely agree that frivolous use of the word is at best annoying when it comes from people who have no idea what it means.
What evidence do you have that it's absurd? Do you think men don't ever act like that in professional settings? Because I have know a ton of women who can assure you that they do.
> H/R ACTS AND WILL ALWAYS ACT IN THE COMPANY'S BEST INTERESTS. NOT YOURS.

Hopefully the recently-revealed experiences at Uber will be taken as a wake-up call by HR folks whose calculus tells them that the best option is to cover up problems.

It should now be apparent that buried issues will eventually come to light, so the short-term gain of coverups won't be worth the long-term risk.
This will give them plenty of data for their ad network, which is a nice strategic move. They always claimed to be privacy conscious so this is perhaps a nicer way to get interest and behavior information.
How many Ping Pong balls can you fit inside a Boeing 777 Fuselage.
Yeah, I'm just going on his statement that it was "one mile", which I take to be the actual Manhattan distance, not the crow's distance. You have a good point with the walk signals, but as someone who's spent a fair amount of time walking many miles around Manhattan (but not SF, so I don't know about that), I never spent much time waiting for walk signals. With the grid layout, it's pretty easy to take a route that has you catching the walk signal almost all the time in one direction, and then opportunistically cross the street or change direction when you happen to catch a red light in that direction.
Exactly. It's not an independent investigation if you hire the investigators.
Many small businesses are not rich, the rules are not crafted for them either.
>> "A citizen's freedom of religion ends when the next citizen's rights begin."

What "right" are you talking about here? The gay couple's "right" to force a particular person to bake them a cake? There is no such right.

Likewise, there's no "right" to healthcare. You can't force a doctor to perform a medical procedure on you, for example. Forcing people to provide you with their services is called slavery.
It's especially silly in the context of an interview. While an interview shouldn't be an inquisition, it obviously does have some areas where you're being put on the spot, on purpose.

Note: Specifically staying just on the "trigger" topic. Not disregarding the level of concern that the story brings, assuming it is true.
That was the very insight that stands behind the IRC bot I wrote. It features a "natural-language" interface that's actually a bunch of regexps plus some hacks to handle declension in Polish language. It was enough to trick few people on the channel into thinking the bot was in fact a real person.
I live in Mexico, I feel that we bring the US American jobs down here but without the salaries, now there are no customers, most markets does not exist under Mexican salaries.
There is also a large divide between "unable to deny mutual attraction after trying as long as possible"...

and some of these stories...

Like your opening day at a company having received an IM from your immediate boss/hirer, by lunchtime saying "Hey, btw, I think you're attractive, I'm in an open relationship and maybe we can have sex sometime." (which, although paraphrased, is still startling close to the verbatim exchanges alleged to have occured).
Yet another example, with lots more that won't come out publicly, of just how toxic Uber's culture of growth at any cost and personal allegiances to Travis really is. The current internal investigation by insiders is a complete joke and only a class action lawsuit can start to right the wrong.
Depends on how you define capitalism. You'd most likely love Peter Theil's book 0 to 1. Recommended read if you got time!
Not to mention that if the resources simply aren't available, money doesn't perform magic. Money is symbolic, more powerful than your average symbol, but still, it's not edible.
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Sorry, I'm not describing a jurisdiction, rather explaining how I think it should be done. I guess I didn't make that clear as it was an appendage to my earlier comment. :)
Not the user you're asking, but Google occasionally mistakes my searches for being a bot and makes me fill out a CAPTCHA before I can get my results. :(

My only guess is it might be related to my liberal use of things like OR, AND, "quotes", site:
language of choice == linkedin endorsed lang -> {TRUE,FALSE}

Yet if there was no relationship between the two entities and there were N languages, one would expect the random probability of TRUE to be N/N^2 = 1/N.

Although, the writer doesn't seem to allege that he's comparing to random or anything like that.
Not a problem at all. People should always question credibility of random things on the internet.

Even though you just tried to #identity_politic someone with blind belief, I'm not going to say people like you are the problem. Just tone down your zeal a bit and approach the problem rationally.
An up-or-out consulting based model seems to fit to their corporate culture.
It's kind of like going to the police. They don't necessarily share your interests, and they have the power to destroy you. That some or good doesn't help much if you go to the one who isn't.
I'm guessing that it was the glamor (Uber) and the money. And the challenge to beat those assholes at their game.
The Bilderberg Group and How They Rule the World
Elon Musk's Spacex announcement live stream
Public policy mitigating risk at the top and increasing it at the bottom isn't "socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor", it's just capitalism, a system that was named by its (socialist) critics for the way in which its structures inherently favor the interests of the holders of capital.
A Constitutional Right to Facebook and Twitter? Supreme Court Weighs In
Conflating "free market" and "competition" won't get you far analytically.
In terms of Scrivener, keep an eye on bundle deals and software discounters like StackSocial. I was able to get my copy for around half-price, and the organization and feature set provided for those $20 is well worth-it.

Now, to be fair, I could write the entire thing in Markdown and be happy. I don't need Scrivener. But for what it does and how well it does it, it's worth looking at.
Consider: you're in a protest, peacefully expressing your disagreement. Then some other people start smashing windows. Under this law, you can now be arrested.

What's more, quite possibly these other people are those who are actively damaging property because they want you to be arrested.

How can that be a good thing?
As skeptical as I am with Uber, I'm still hoping that something will come up with the investigation. It also encourages me that more people are speaking up. The more bad press they get, the more pressure they'll have to have their "investigations" result in some discipline.
HotSpot has had great speeds for numeric computation at least since 2005. I was doing financial software in Java in my first job out of college, our CTO was an ex-Sun architect who literally wrote the book on Java, and the speeds we got on numerical computations were basically equivalent to C.

The part where Java really falls down is in memory use & management, which you can see on the binary-tree & mandelbrot benchmarks, where it's roughly 4x slower than C. There are inherent penalties to pointer chasing that you can't get around. While HotSpot is often (amazingly) smart enough to inline & stack-allocate small private structs, typical Java coding style relies on complex object graphs. In C++ or Rust these would all have well-defined object ownership and be contained within a single block of memory, so access is just "add a constant to this pointer, and load". In Java, you often need to trace a graph of pointers 4-5 levels deep, each of which may cause a cache miss.

Rule of thumb while I was at Google was to figure on real-world Java being about 2-3x slower than real-world C++.
I wholeheartedly agree, and considered making a comment about the same point, but in all honestly, I think it's a small quibble in the grand scheme of what the article is about.
Does the lack of changes include no security updates? Then yes, one should be annoyed and Thunderbird usage should be discontinued.
I've been wondering this myself, so thanks for the link. Looks like it lives under the label: "Proposals we might consider in the future".

I've been building a [super early/experimental] rust frontend framework (https://github.com/anowell/quasar), and going through Javascript to manipulate the DOM is the cause of plenty of frustrations and limitations, so I'll be keeping an eye on this.
Wouldn't you consider monopolies like Standard Oil to be in line with voluntarism? Because it seems like to me, but their dedication to avoiding fair competition is the stuff of legend.
Yep, The Humane Interface is already on my (apparently ever-growing) reading list! Should probably bump it up as I've seen it recommended so much. Thanks :)

I've been thinking, with all the huge advances in AI/ML in the last few years, now might be exactly the right time for an ambitious project like Ubiquity, since it relies heavily on natural-language processing. Thoughts?
I once thought that the telemarketer that called me was in fact a bot, given his monotone speech and the yes/no questions he kept asking. It turned out (after ~two minutes of trying to get him to answer an open-ended question) that it was in fact a human being. That made me very sad.
I'm sure this company has no issues with recruiting.
Sorry, you're not rich. 10's to 100's is very middle class.
Mozilla needs products that are relevant in the marketplace, to exist. Revenue is part but not all of this.

I don't think Mozilla can make meaningful impact in a world where it doesn't make products that internet users want to use. It would be a largely toothless advocacy organization at that point.
I read that as flipping a coin to predict if the most-endorsed language will be the language of choice in an interview. I make no claim to the statistical usefulness of such a statement.
The PSAs that I've seen have always been "recycle, reduce, reuse". Doing a Google search on both shows your order having about 435,000 hits and mine having 214,000.

It seems like an education problem; I don't think it's ever been pointed out to me that the more-common ordering was intended to also express the favorability of the options (although it makes sense, looking at it).
Interestingly, I just happened to read yesterday this book was basically the Trump campaign's Bible.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/27/peter-thiels-tech-book-became...

Which is a summary of:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/donald-trumps-shadow-p...
That's the number of overstays among 2015 arrivals as of January 2016, not the total number of overstays.

I guess the numbers for longer overstays will be lower, it'd be interesting to see the estimates.
Let's forget about the drama for a minute and focus on running an actual business.

It seems like a lot people are about to leave Uber and that's a business opportunity!

Here's a list of Uber employees that can be recruited away with little to moderate effort: https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?facetCurrent...
Modeling Economies: Turns out it's difficult
This is only theoretically good because he's giving the employees stock. Most times, stock options seem like a rip-off that folks can never really cash in on properly.

Maybe I've only encountered this with folks working retail and in places like call centeres, never quite having enough either to buy stocks nor exercise their options after they've left the company. Even $75,0000 (half of the lower stock price amount) can be a life-changing amount for someone making 30k per year.

I understand it is cheaper on the bottom line to offer stocks, but it still can be worthless to the bottom-rung employee.
Yes, that is a fair point. I probably should have been more clear that I was referring to peers in my comment above.
> Even if Yahoo’s board fires her, her contract stipulates she gets $54.9 million in severance. [...] In other words, Mayer can’t lose. [For the rest of America] 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.

> Before we go to the barricades, you should know about another CEO named Hamdi Ulukaya [...] Last Tuesday Ulukaya announced he’s giving all his 2,000 full-time workers shares of stock worth up to 10 percent of the privately held company’s value when it’s sold or goes public

This is comparing apples to orange socks. The issue at hand is the safety net. If she gets fired, the underperforming CEO gets enough money to continue her lifestyle - perhaps indefinitely. The Chobani employees get a little more upside, but their downside is pretty much the same. E.g. they're still in deep sh*t if the company does badly.
The free market in the United States is celebrated by the mouth of those who pass the laws, but often gets beaten by the hand.

I don't think my ISP choice is a result of free market capitalism. It seems an awful lot like collusion against the free market, against competition, locking me down to one ISP depending in which region I happen to live.
> Also, using the Bill Gates, who's probably 2+ orders of magnitude wealthier than Singhal, as a comparison point isn't fair either.

You don't have to be Gates-wealthy to be a philanthropist. Hell, I did some philanthropy when I was earning only $35k a year - I saved up $2k and sent out an invite to a dozen friends for them to do any short course of their choosing up to $150 and I'd pay for it. And that's small potatoes - there are thousands upon thousands of people out there working long-term as volunteers for good causes despite also being on or near minimum wage.

The idea that philanthropy is only the domain of the ridiculously wealthy is just bizarre.
Being genuinely puzzled by someone's actions is not by definition an attempt to discredit them. I was also puzzled by her detailed description of herself. It wasn't clear to me wether she believes that it isn't enough detail for uber to identify her, or if she doesn't care if uber is able to identify her she just wants to be anonymous to the public. Neither of those cases undermine her story even slightly.
This has somewhat useful, interesting information, but I'm flagging it for the clickbait title.

Better title would be: "I pitched to 65 VCs and learned these things"
To me, this detail seems like it was planted in the story to identify him specifically to the people who would "know" the signal. No idea how accurate that could be, though.
Reasonable public policy would stop too much consolidation from happening, knowing it will represent a risk for the economy in the long term, though.

That's not happening anymore...because campaign bribes.
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It's pretty typical male privilege to enter this discussion to say "Nope, don't believe it, because it sounds unreasonable to me". It has a chilling effect.

There's obviously no way to be sure of the story, but the speed with which people just presume it's fake speaks the overall lack of understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace. It's willfully ignorant to make that the basis for a discussion on this article.
Wait what? Are you seriously poking a hole in the argument by saying it's fine because CEOs are just used to being rich?
Great some one has made my murdering Segway nightmare a reality.
Thanks Boston Dybamics.
DTLS is also the foundation of webrtc, which is talked about in this topic a lot and which is implemented in most browsers now. This means DTLS is important - but unfortunately not offered by lots of libraries (e.g. not by the Go network/crypto libraries)
... or, you could pull out a phone directory and get the landline numbers for everyone in a nice wealthy neighborhood. Wait until someone orders a pizza, and when the driver gets there you rob him.

No connection to the neighborhood makes it very difficult to track down the perpetrator, and doing it in nice neighborhoods means that the driver is less likely to suspect trouble and more likely to be carrying cash.
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Product managers and hierarchical reporting structures are nothing new to Mozilla, quite the contrary.
> ... is a privileged viewpoint, and offensive to me.

"Privileged"?

I'm not sure how or why you chose to take offense, but I'm surprised that anything about that was even slightly controversial.

> The author doesn't have to prove to your satisfaction that this happened to her to write this article

You're right, but that doesn't mean I have to believe what the author claims and doesn't mean I can't respond to it. The comment section doesn't exist to serve as an echo chamber.
The name for this is crony capitalism. Policy that benefits businesses instead of policy that benefits markets. Luigi Zingales's book "A Capitalism for the People" is a good read on the subject.
Name is quite similar to ILM's OpenEXR image format.
I never used pocket, but I use instapaper.

I wonder if Pocket will be completely free now or if mozilla counts on this to fund more of its efforts. Beyond that. I also wonder if this means a read it later service will finally properly support RSS. Forgive me I don't know the features of pocket but as i understand it is does not correct?

I been using the built in firefox RSS feeder for years. with pocket integration it'd be a lot more useful.
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>you don't know that the difference is due to the two platforms though

When loading the UI takes 4 seconds. Pretty sure thats a problem, and its impossible to actually /prove/ its 'just their code', there is supporting evidence due to the technologies they chose and the nature of why they're used.

>whether yours is fast or slow, and whether you can build it quickly only depends on your skillset

The software you are using matters a lot, too. You can't just throw any tech at a problem and it'l solve it. Your skillset is dependent upon what you know, and how you know to use it, but is limited based upon what is available and readily possible. Chromium and node.js have overhead, and are very good at some things, and other things they are much worse for than a native app. Add ontop the crazy environment of JS and its inneficiencies for performance in comparison, and you get a big pile of mud. Useful, if you need to create something quickly, like many startups.
> But based on the flags this story is getting, many don't [believe your story].

Or maybe they know her story all too well, and are angry to see it here. It's not like there's nobody from Uber on HN, I mean.
I think that's a pompous assumption to make as it boils down to "If people travelled more, they wouldn't have voted for Trump." Which (even setting aside the economic assumption that everyone can jet off to Europe or Asia) is a pretty dismissive way to look at why people voted for Trump.

My takeaways were instead the following. (1) If one disagrees with the way the country is heading, one first has to understand the needs that drove people to Trump, and support people who fulfill those needs in a more positive way (rather than dismissing them). (2) Stop considering oneself absolved of blame if one didn't vote for Trump. One still participated in the environment that led to a Trump elector college victory, and is thus complicit.

Every day, not just election day.
Strange that this was your takeaway when there were so many other things in the article to be greatly bothered by.
"Even $75,0000 (half of the lower stock price amount) can be a life-changing amount for someone making 30k per year."

Yeah, ever see the people openly weeping at the end of every Undercover Boss?
Far easier when you're a 40-something male engineer with a large resumé than a relatively green female engineer who will already contend with some people who think she's not a culture fit, based solely on gender.
I think Ubiquity is similar to 'Alt+Space' launchers. Alfred on Mac and Hain on Windows. Cerebro is a cross platform one.
What if Shark attacks are so low, because people pay attention to the risk? Just like airplane travel is safe because of all the regulations, not just out of itself?

And I dislike measuring the micromorts per population, it should be divided by those people actually going swimming/surfing, just like riding x miles with a motorcycle increases your risk of dying by y micromorts, going swimming for a hours should be increasing your mms by b.
Yep, the idea of this "new" yogurt capitalism-socialism pretty much relies on the global work force being employees of successful multinational corporations - corporations that still employ a very small percentage of the overall population.