skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
all I hear seems to be about how completely poisonous the company is.

Stories about how everything at $COMPANY is just hunky-dory, with the employees sitting around holding hands and singing kumbaya by the campfire, etc. don't get reported. As the old saying goes "if it bleeds, it leads". Or to rephrase a bit "If it's negative, it leads". So of course you're going to hear more negative stories, and the news media is going to amplify whatever negative stories exist, because that generates more clicks.

Note that I'm not defending Uber here... I don't know or much care about what's going on at Uber in general. I just wanted to make note of how little it may mean that we only hear negative stories about $X.
It looks like they've been trying the dignified, private route for seven years. How long should they wait?
It differs depending on the field. Biology has a reputation for being extremely competitive. I've heard of PIs telling their students what they're forbidden to reveal at conferences for fear of getting scooped. As a CS grad student it was a completely different story: I was delighted just to get someone who was willing to listen to me talk.
Haha! My link doesn't go to a video about meteors. Your point is taken, though. I was just being cute and/or hoping you hadn't heard about this.

But I have heard the possibility of a GRB discussed seriously as a motivator for expanding, not just through the solar system, but through the galaxy.
If only there was some way to provide a taxi service while simultaneously not sexually harassing site-reliability engineers. Tragically, Uber cars burn Susan Fowler's tears instead of gas.
Worth a read: "Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks" by Arthur Benjamin, one of my wife's college professors.
Not just that: cancel any stock options or other perks they have too.
> What would an ideal way forward be for Uber? Recent incidents combined with a tainted past make public trust in Uber not the best.

Usually these are handled with a shake-up at the top, and other involved people being let go.
True colors like wanting investors, people with skin in the game and the ear of the company, to voice concerns through standard channels?

Could you provide some more detail to your condescension?
The REX Neo Architecture: An energy efficient new processor architecture [video]
The resources involved in preventing a GRB from hitting us, on the other hand, are . . .

. . . actually I have absolutely no idea how you would practically do that at all.
There are actually many such as Albert, Penny, Clarity Money and Level Money
The day of the first, "lost package", and receiving the letter are the same: February 14th.

https://byuu.org/emulation/preservation/lost-package/:

As of the time of writing, February 14th, 2017 — this
package has yet to arrive.

https://byuu.org/emulation/preservation/found-package/

On February 14, 2017, I received the following letter
from USPS:

They totally left out this when making their initial post. Part of the package arrived, with a letter by USPS - the package didn't mysteriously vanish. It's a little different story. I don't know why they wouldn't have mentioned it. In the initial story, he blamed USPS for being incompetent on taking control of the delivery; in the second he blames Deutsche Post for a bad packaging job.
all constraints make gerrymandering harder to do. The solution is therefore to add more constraints.
One of my fondest memories on the CDT was blowing by the weekend hikers in the Wind River Range and Yellowstone (only times I encountered a lot of other people)
I provided a reason (scabbing during the NYC strike), and they sent me a topical response:

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We share your concern that this ban will impact many thousands of innocent people. That’s why Uber is committed to financially compensating drivers affected by the ban, so that they can continue to support their families while they are prevented from returning to the US. For more information you can read our CEO’s statement at: http:// t.uber.com/eo.
While I’m sorry to hear about your concerns, I’ve gone ahead and deleted your account as requested.

Of course, if I can assist with anything further please let me know.

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I thought it was interesting, anyway.
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These aren't related at all! Authenticated encryption uses a symmetric MAC. Code signing is asymmetric.
WebRender is not coupled in any way to HTML/CSS/JS as far as I know (I've used it in an app).

Fundamentally, it allows you to represent a scene-graph and render it efficiently. How you go about constructing and manipulating your scene graph is up to the application which uses it.

In Servo's case it parses HTML and CSS for structure and style and allows manipulations through JS through the DOM, but none of those are any concern for webrender.
Make your time count
This is actually something I would use -- say, while driving. Emoji would probably throw me off, though.

I learnt Morse at age 12 or so, actually used it regularly on amateur radio for quite a while, but haven't used it for probably about 20 years. I can still "read" it when I hear it, without even thinking about it.
They used to, back around the turn of the century. Yahoo and Google, to take just two examples, got older and more experienced CEOs to supplement the youthful founders as the companies grew.

My impression is that doing it that way is a bit old-school now. Investors would rather bet on the founders doing it Gates-style by pure intellect and vigor.
It's off topic. It is also concerning that (without more detail) a singular remark about a social event off-hours would get someone fired.
Here you go op https://www.npmjs.com/package/babel-plugin-null-safe-accesso...
Frank Abagnale, world-famous con-man explains why technology won’t stop breaches
It's also at a 0% increase relative to ~3 years ago. 0% is ... very steady.
Bitcoin Price Sets New All-Time High
Perl-like “unless” (reverse if) feature in Python
If you're so unprofessional that you can't prevent yourself from having lurid conversations about sex in a workplace with women in earshot around you, then maybe you should be working someplace else, such as a dirty warehouse.
And finally, https://bestmotherfucking.website
They hide the "Delete My Account" outside of your account, and link to it on some 'help page'. Some help.

So, here's the link: https://help.uber.com/h/24010fe7-7a67-4ee5-9938-c734000b144a

You have to "beg" for them to delete your account. It's not automatic. But I have a feeling that once they do so, and marking them as spam in Google would do even more damage.
Why is it an antithesis?

HTML UI at the end is just a set of few simple concepts (at least with Sciter):

1. UI is a composition of just two universal components: Element and Node (text, comment, etc).

2. UI is a single rooted tree of such blocks - DOM tree.

3. The tree can be styled by well known CSS means.

4. Events are delivered to particular UI elements using bubbling/sinking event propagation schema.

5. Any DOM Element may have so called behavior assigned to it. The behavior is either native (C/C++/Rust/Go/etc) or script function. All <input> elements are normal DOM elements with corresponding behaviors attached.

I do not see how this simple setup can be an antithesis to anything.
Decoding the ancient tale of mass suicide in the Judaean desert
You're saying the average of infinities is a gazillion gazillion?

For any hashcode, there are an infinite number of documents that would result in that hashcode.
I think you can criticize Travis and management a lot in private,

It sounds like that's what they've been doing ("We are speaking up now because we are disappointed and frustrated; we feel we have hit a dead end in trying to influence the company quietly from the inside."). If the private approach doesn't work, what should one do?
White House Indicates Potential Crackdown on Recreational Marijuana
Related: invig.io
I feel so sad that microformats havent gone mainstream yet. They're such a good idea, and so easy to use, yet 99.9% of websites don't bother.

Instead I have to, e.g., manually select a street name and enter it into a OSM search field.

I wonder, why haven't thet gotten more popular?
while Uber's culture problems are legendary...I've seen this type of complain at every single company I worked for (which is almost 2 dozens at this point), including when it was not true at all and people were just whiny that their idea for office decoration did not get accepted.

So we're starting to suffer from a "boy who cried wolf" syndrome, where when the complain is real, no one cares.

That's a big problem.
Because they prefer morally scrupulous co-workers. Just a guess.
The sovereignty of states most definitely does not exist outside of the Constitution. For example, states can be split into two; Kentucky was originally part of the State of Virginia and became a separate state in 1792, the 15th. West Virginia was a part of Virginia, Maine was a part of Massachusetts, Vermont was a part of New York. This is covered in Article IV, Section 3, clause 1 of the Constitution which says:

no new State shall be formed or erected within the
Jurisdiction of any other State...
without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States
concerned as well as of the Congress.

This too can be changed.

States are mere administrative districts that exist at the pleasure of the Constitution. This state sovereignty under the Articles of Confederation was done away with by the Constitution.
Thanks for showing up and answering questions!

I've gotten used to having my rails application (server) running in the same thread as my cucumber (client-side) steps, thanks to cucumber-rails. So I could see why this would be especially useful for testing node.js applications, with the same advantages. (A fault detected anywhere on either side of the test execution, client or server, can be escalated and reported to stop the entire test, delivering a really good, clear idea of where to look in the code for the violator!)

This looks like a really neat project.
Wake up -> Go To the Gym (No Starbucks) -> Workout -> Shower -> Go to Work -> Start working right away (no email, social media or distractions)

That's it. Simple as that.

In a few hours your brain will be "fried". At that point checking email and messing around a little in social media might actually help you relax and get back into it after an hour so so.

Oh, yeah. Eat.

No coffee. Ever.
Yeah, I agree. Examples! If this is true, there's got to be some really interesting stories here.
> The javascript language has advanced considerably. Not only has it adopted many of the syntax sugar features such as classes and fat arrow function, it has gone beyond coffeescript with features such as async/await and object spread properties.

Just like CoffeeScript's good parts got into JavaScript, JavaScript's new features are being merged into CoffeeScript. 'async/await' becomes just an elegant 'await' in CS and pure generators are just functions that yield, without special annotations (i.e function*()).

CoffeeScript is nearing its 2.0 release [1]. So the language is not "dead", and there is still room for "innovation" repeating the cycle anew.

1. https://github.com/coffeescript6/discuss/issues/71
what's wrong with safe districts?

I would like to have better representation and lower volatility.
> Well at least Eth lets us write in a variant of JS. JS is amazing. Basically impossible to write buggy code in it.

What features of JavaScript prevent you from writing buggy code?
I haven't used swap in years on an 8GiB machine. I might hit the OOM killer once a year. It does its job and the system keeps running.
Neat! To avoid being sucked into anything too big, you might want to check out the "good first" issues on the Desktop App (https://github.com/tryghost/ghost-desktop/issues?q=is%3Aopen...) or the beginner ones on the heart of it all (https://github.com/tryghost/ghost/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Ais...).
but ... but .... half of the web is no longer secure? ... :D
Followup: after using Snooze Tabs personally for a few days, it struck me that this is actually a pretty natural feature for Snooze Tabs. Filed a bug for that:

https://github.com/bwinton/SnoozeTabs/issues/208
What’s the Difference Between DV, OV and EV SSL Certificates?
Accept that they possibly can't fix Uber, and focus on making/helping other investments.
Great. They just expanded

http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/23/technology/lyft-launches-54-...
> no database

Incorrect. This uses storage on a server to store post data. When I first read that I thought this would be a distributed p2p platform of some sort.

The p2p web platform being worked on at OFTN makes it very easy to create a truly static version of this website (100% client-side p2p logic & data distribution) without a server database.

You will be liable for illegal content uploaded to your server (when notified of its existence), so you will be required to remove content from your server when you receive court orders/DMCA takedown requests/etc. With a proper p2p tracker-based system, you can simply forward legal proceedings to the ISP of infringing users, and avoid the legal time sink involved with this kind of site.
Bitcoin's ... limitations .... do not affect market capitalization

I hope I am not misunderstanding but it sounds like you are saying people will use bitcoin no matter how long tx time is or how high fees go?

As a major player in Bitcoin I think it imperative that you guys understand that is not true, users will stop using and new users will never join if it takes too long or is too expensive. I feel the exchanges could have a huge part to play in responsibly forking the system to 2 mb and beyond as a signal to miners and offer confidence to users that there coins are safe no matter what, not all this "We have no official stance" stuff which instills neither confidence nor the feeling there there is even anything important that needs "fixed". You guys should be the front line demand this upgrade, why aren't you?
You hope they continue to sexually harass their female employees?
I don't know if you've looked at modern delphi, but it's not that different from IntelliJ. It seems amazing that delphi 1 was perfectly usable on a 640 x 480 screen, showing a complete IDE with a GUI designer, code editor, panel, menu and toolbar.

Delphi 1:
https://winworldpc.com/res/img/screenshots/1x-1a684e073c9048...

Delphi 10:
http://uimg.in/images/2017/01/05/e4vC6sN.png

When I break apart the UI differences it's obvious delphi's UI had to grow to accommodate the growing complexity of the projects built with it, and that delphi 1 could get away with being simple because it wasn't expected to do all that much. Still, when I look at that delphi 1 screenshot all I can remember was how fun it was to program in it.
Mitch has invested in a company I founded before, and I would have him as an investor again in a heartbeat.

Your relationship with your investors and your board is both public and private (or at least, it's supposed to be). Yes, you are owed a private space to discuss difficult internal matters. But your investors are also responsible for getting you ready to be a public company, and that means holding you accountable when you've fallen below the threshold of what would be acceptable to public shareholders. As the letter notes, "accountable" by definition means in the open and out of your total control.

Mitch and Freada are doing Uber's shareholders a service (and therefore also doing Travis a service) by helping the company clean house before they're exposed to the harsher sunlight of being a public company. If you wouldn't have them as investors as a result, then you're not ready to be held accountable by others and aren't public CEO material.
I think postal staff really don't like to lose items in general. Here in the UK, I ordered a couple of metal pill bottles a few years ago. What I received was a clear plastic Royal Mail bag apologising for the damage to my parcel, contents: one loose metal container, one bubble mailer containing the other item and a circular tear exactly the size of the loose item. Clearly one of them had made a bid for freedom somewhere in mail processing and someone had gone to the trouble of matching up the completely unmarked and unbranded loose item with the corresponding hole it escaped through.
So looks like if you were investor in Uber, you are one of those who would stay quiet!
Well they are part in a company that is trying to destroy the livelihood of hard working taxi drivers partly by pushing illegal practices. And please don't assume that the taxi business needs disruption globally because the place where you live can't regulate taxis properly.

So no reason to feel terrible for them.
Insuring it doesn't help you in recovering the package. It just mitigates the loss. I fully expect that both byuu and the donor would much prefer to have the 100 SNES games than to have a $10k payout.
"many thru hikers will basically walk the entire day. 3*15 = 45 miles per day give or take. "

Yes on the many "hike all day" thing, but regarding mileage this is starting to shade off into hyperbole. E.g., when Scott Jurek set the (then) AT speed record in 2015, he averaged 49.2 miles/day, and that was with support (van carrying food, gear, and meeting him for sleeping spot each night, people helping with massage, etc.). And Jurek is (or once was) a world-class athlete.

Heather Anderson set the "unsupported" (she had nobody helping her carry anything and no help with camping or resupplies) AT record, also in 2015, and she averaged just 42 miles/day.

The speed records on PCT are a little faster in terms of miles/day, but not much. So I would not say that "many" thru-hikers are averaging "45 miles/day give or take", although I agree that 18 miles/day is pretty average. A lot of people may hit a 45 mile day somewhere along their hike, but it's exaggerating to suggest that more than a handful average anywhere near that over the entire hike.
> Don't kick your founder when he's down.

There should also be a counter rule:

> Don't stick by your founders if they are creating horrible environments, such as Uber's, and are unwilling to make up for their mistakes.

If more investors had this sort of backbone founders might feel more accountability and not let these situations happen in the first place.

This would be at the expense of bad founders losing trust with their investors? Great. The good founders will be glad that the Kapor's stood up for what is right, and know that they will never be placed in the same situation themselves because they trust their own moral compasses.
Isn't it weird that this totally unrelated problem came to light just weeks after a group of people started an anti-Uber campaign for Uber's failure to be quite as anti-Trump as they'd like?

What are the underlying politics here? How does it affect the skepticism we should exhibit when evaluating random anecdotes?
> If they have an issue with the board then then there are manoeuvres that they can take.

Yes, and public pressure like this is one of those maneuvers.
Anyone care to comment on why they downvoted? I'm genuinely open to the fact that I could be missing information here...
>you can design facially neutral criteria whose application will result in any distortions of representation you could seek to gain from gerrymandering

I seriously doubt this assertion is true. If you were to take, say, one state and design a set of district division rules based on, say, population density, geographic similarity and boundaries, infrastructure boundaries, existing political borders like counties and cites and manipulate the weights given to each factor so that one party comes out over- represented, the very next time the districts are redrawn after significant changes that carefully constructed balance will fall apart.
Google Wifi and OnHub Devices Experiencing Issues
As a male in my early twenties, working as a developer, I've come to realise that one of the best ways I can combat sexism in our industry is to treat women normally, and not make special exceptions while working with them.

I wouldn't talk to my male friends, colleagues or brother in the way you've said your colleague did, I think it's demeaning and unpleasant, and I don't think calls of a very personal nature are appropriate to take around work colleagues anyway.
I've been collecting here socially interesting proteins and trying to better describe them in both plain language and in a computationally accessible form. We've also made software to help peer into, manipulate, and build your own proteins.
Medium now charges $75 for custom domain
That's a silly thing to say.
I suspect that, for someone who uses that sort of language to talk about women even in private, it likely wasn't a first or only offence.
I just want to point out that this comment chain is conflating Signal the app with Signal the crypto protocol, which is not specific to SMS
Such a shame that a high cost is charged for custom domain handling.
Such a huge price increase.
Originally for free. Yes that wasn't sustainable. But $75??
You can buy a domain for $5pa
Free SSL using LetsEncrypt.

I get Medium are looking for a revenue model, but this is ridiculous.

Why not provide enterprise blogging or something they can charge enterprise for. Take on the Wordpress kingdom and get into big business.
I used to use Uber even if I disliked them because they were just so much cheaper. But I think I am just willing to pay more just to avoid paying Uber.
I didn’t think I’d ever leave the CIA. But because of Trump, I quit
Frame-based exception handling problem on Server 2008 (SEHOP) (2008)
All string diff algorithms in alignment derive from previous innovations on raw strings.

For some applications, it's more useful to just take the hash of each line and compute line diffs from an array of hashes. Diff algorithms which ignore whitespace changes sometimes do this.

Few algorithms recognize text re-ordering. This is a problem with Wikipedia diffs, where rearranging text is commonplace. Displaying the changes might require big arrows, but there's no problem with that today.
Multiple Google users are being signed out randomly
One benefit I haven't seen mentioned is that you can often borrow against a 401k and I don't believe that's as common (impossible?) with an IRA. The benefit of borrowing against your 401k is that the interest goes back into your account. The downside is that you have a maximum of five years to repay it, and of course you're repaying it with after-tax dollars. Unlike a withdrawal, it's penalty-free.
> waged a legal campaign against the voting rights act, drafted various pieces of legislation aimed at disenfranchising minorities and college students

Showing your ID isn't waging a war against voting rights, its straight up common sense like we have to do for every other thing in society. Many people find it surprising around the world that we don't check IDs.
I wouldn't want to work with an investor who doesn't stand up for what they believe in. If you aren't fighting for building successful companies that also do it the right way, why would I take your money? I want to take money from someone I trust, not someone who will toe the company line. This attitude is what caused Zenefits to explode: no one questioned their tactics or culture because they were growing. Same with Theranos. I want to work with good people and good people stand up for things when they feel they have a need to. If it was for a first (maybe 3rd or 4th) offense, I would agree, but for a 40th? Call those MFs out.
It is a zero sum game so that statement cannot be true unless you mean over time and in different places. If that is the case then it is a great argument for coming up with a set of rules beforehand that both parties agree is fair.
Correct, you can't. You have shares and typically need board approval to sell those. Even if the board might give you approval, the admin required to make that happen and get it in writing means it's unlikely to happen in practice.