skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and when I taught I'd regularly have some female students come to office hours in revealing clothes or try to sit closer than others and so on.

Two things occur to me: 1) neither of those things means those students were engaging in "flirting their way to favor": maybe, just maybe, they were dressing comfortably for them or they absorbed our discussion better by sitting closer and my biases and (mis-?)perceptions were at work; 2) even if they were "flirting," as a responsible adult male it was my responsibility to ignore it, or even raise a concern if I felt it were intentional and damaging to the student-teacher relationship.
According to stack exchange, it doesn't [0]. If that's wrong maybe I can fund a trip to space of my own by selling lead lined boxers.

[0] http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/14704/do-astronauts...
How do you explain the amount of money/effort spent by the big companies in trying to attract young kids out of college and the cultish attraction for these companies from young people who know nothing about the industry?

Do you know of any big company that has a magic solution to this problem? Everyone has this problem but the end users perceive it differently depending on how the brand presents itself.
Rating cost-of-living solely by monthly rent is naive.

Having a family is expensive, so be sure to cut that fat too.
There is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Employment_Opportunity_C...

I'd never know about it, except, a while ago, US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas worked there. During his confirmation hearings there was a real political shitstorm about what might nor might not have transpired there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas#Anita_Hill_all...
The documentation for std::hash in GCC clearly states the integral type identity property, gives a reason for it, and suggests it's not the best type for some circumstances.

That means it's not amateurish: it was an intentional decision, likely by somebody who implements hash functions for a living, who gave thought to what the appropriate default should be. It is a trivial perfect hash, of course.
I have wondered about this several times. Amidst so many scandals, what would it take for a zenefits-esque meltdown to take place at Uber? The `too big to fail` ethos never works out well for the consumer.
The hard part is to know what you know and what you dont know. It has nothing to do with "inside a team and feeling safe". If you do not know what you know and what you dont know, then you will make the most naive mistakes eventually.

I myself have deleted the data file of a production mysql server, because I have no idea what I am doing. I need to call teammates in 12am to learn how to take care of the mess I created.
I personally haven't found any quite as good as the Bike Shed(http://bikeshed.fm/). It does often focus on Ruby, but overall the types of problems they cover are not limited to Ruby in scope. I mainly like it because I get to hear some developers significantly more experienced than myself talk about how they solved certain problems.
May I ask where one can find data about pc parts? Is there a DB you can buy?
Not sure everyone will see it that way. One could look at it as taking the whole "wasteful private jet" to the extreme. Think of the sheer amount of fuel burned in the earth's atmosphere so a rich guy can fly in space.

At least, I expect many will spin it that way.
Should it be marked as a dupe given that it's the NYT coverage rather than Recode's?
>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).

Yeah, you have to look at this girl's age and background. It makes sense that she's going to use that terminology. Every generation has different ways of talking about things.
shouldn't that be 'SH' ?
I wonder how many refugees could be funded with the amount that they paid. SAD!
After continuously tracking now Uber like to know which event are you headed
Sure. There is no single silver bullet that actually enforces quality everywhere.

But look, inflation is bad. If grades aren't inflated, and I rate someone a 3, then we say, "This person is a solid employee. We're happy they're here, we're giving them an average raise, everything's cool. Do we have a little constructive feedback that says, 'Hey, here's how you could take it to the next level?' Sure. But we're happy with them."

If grades are inflated and I give someone a 3, then oh shit, maybe they're in trouble! Because some asshole had to give everyone in his team a 4 or 5, and now my solid employee looks like he's underperforming the company average.

The fact is, a solid 4+ rating means you're a really great employee. Teams that are all high performing are super rare, and tend to be really, really, really obvious within a company.

Now, is it a valid criticism of stack ranking that it makes it not just difficult but impossible to describe a team that's solidly above average? Yes, absolutely. Stack ranking is kind of dumb. But understand that despite interesting and compelling stories about people being unfairly rated lower than they deserve, that's not the big problem that companies face. In general, the incentives for everyone is to rate people higher than they deserve, not lower (with toxic exceptions like what Fowler faced). And if you set up your whole system to make really sure that it embraces the idea of everyone being super awesome, you probably don't get a highly functional rating system out the other side. It's probably better to set one up that embraces the idea of average teams (average for your company) and let people override the system when you say, "Oh my god, this entire team is just killing it this review cycle."
The resources are the humans and the departments responsibility is to keep the company from being sued.
If you thought I was referring to Google, or any specific corporation, government or entity, I wasn't. Technical elite was ambiguous intentionally, because it really can be anyone who has the ability to fund this type of technology, forward thinking enough to realize the power of it and isn't concerned about using it against others. Historically, this doesn't seem far fetched.
It wouldn't bother me much.

I've worked with people who couldn't handle pressure, who would just shut down and blank out when you criticized their plans or gave negative feedback. It's not pleasant - such people force you to spend more time thinking about their feelings than about technology or strategy. People like that shut down the free exchange of ideas.

I'd much rather suffer through a grueling interview for a day than work with such people on a daily basis. Being a healthy adult without PTSD, I don't get "triggered" by interviewers questioning me or playing games.
I don't think anyone is missing that, cutesy little jokes like that just don't tend to do well here on HN.
Thunderbird is still under active development, I'm one of their users, being the best email client for the desktop. Unfortunately Thunderbird is also a dead end, being incompatible with Firefox's direction.

Yes, XUL is dead and Firefox is evolving into a Chrome substitute and while people have serious concerns about it, fact of the matter is that Chrome was designed for web apps and almost 9 years after its release Chrome is still the best browser available for web apps. Not sure how many people here remember Chrome's original goals, beautifully illustrated by their comic book announcement, but here's a refresher and try to count the problems that Firefox still has in 2017: https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html

In other words, Firefox is dying because users have been trained to expect security, stability, an interface free of crappy toolbars and extensions you can't uninstall, not to mention running long lived web apps. And while people on this forum will cry out for Vimperator or other poweruser extensions that 99.9% of the world have never heard about, it's undeniable that without evasive action Firefox will become a footnote in only a couple of years.

I'm also a Firefox user and I understand their move away from Thunderbird. For work I use Gmail, personal email is Fastmail, both have really good web interfaces. And while I try using email clients like Thunderbird, the web interfaces are simply good enough and always there. These are web apps btw and guess which browser is best for web apps? It's not Firefox ;-)

And for all I care Mozilla can kill every project they have, if that means Firefox continues to improve. Because it's still the only browser that cares about my freedoms.
In the end they all die from obesity and booze anyway. Modern life is all about self-inflicted harm.
Geometrically if a force radiates uniformly it either

A)has infinite density

B)drops off as 1/r^2

We know that gravity drops off as 1/r^2 for all cases except galaxy rotation curves so for it become 1/r for just this specific scale requires that from gravity's perspective the surface area of a sphere usually but doesn't always increase as r^2. Which in turn means it doesn't move through the 3 spacial dimensions that everything else does.
Ok. It sounds like we're using the same word to describe two separate ideas. Your definition sounds like what I'd call "crony capitalism", or the rigging of the game (i.e. government policy) in one's favor. I'd bet that I'd consider some of the "subsequent reforms" you've described as fundamental corruptions of the system. For example, political donations as corporate free speech (Citizens United v FEC) doesn't make much sense in a world where shareholders aren't engaged and active participants in company behavior. In other words, corporate governance is broken, something that Reich gets right.
Fowler's post was incredibly well written and showed the power of understatement.
Mistreated by men? Did you miss the part where she writes that almost everybody in HR was a woman?
Australia. It's all covered under the Sex Discrimination Act.

https://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/sex-discrimination/p...
Introducing Handle – Boston Dynamics
Hard at work manufacturing that freedom as always.
Unless you're NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, or Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung (you get the idea) why would you ever want to build anything besides "small and/or highly regular chips"?

I think there's a lot of interest in designing "highly regular" chips. And it's definitely possible to go quite far with open source tools. I've seen a 16-core general purpose chip with full 64-bit IEEE FP, ALU, and memory instructions operating at 1 MHz (real speed) as a gate-level simulation on a desktop computer. This could potentially be "running linux" at a reasonable (if sluggish) speed.
Apple, pretty much singlehandedly, invented an entire category of computing (the smartphone), and reaped the market rewards for it. They were ready, saw the opportunity, had the business chops to make the most of it, and got fabulously rich in the process. An example of the system working does not mean the system always works. There's been a lot of dirt done over the years.

That's not to say I'm anti-capitalist by any means. I think it's a great economic engine and a tool for great good. That we can never turn our backs on, lest it devour us. ;)
Depends on the rocket. With some modifications and the right rocket it should be possible to land a Dragon 2 on the moon. However, there it will be for a very long time. No chance to come back.
> Not to ignore or minimize abuse by CBP officers, but from the CBP perspective, from the tax payers' perspective, what possible value derives from this behavior?

I'm fairly sure the net value is a negative, especially when taken in accumulation.
There was a time when founders were replaced too soon with "professional management". The pendulum has swung the other way with the mythology of the founder. Now, founders are rarely if ever replaced.
I'd love to see the INTERNET of Things be replaced by the INTRANET of Things.

Remote access can be handled through a VPN, so there's no need for a remote server. I'm assuming that the device in question has computing hardware that's at least on par with a $9 CHIP.

What's really needed is for secure and easy to set up VPNs (to connect back to your home network) to become a thing, then the remote access problems are taken care of. After this, each IoT device's app just needs to look for the device and possibly give the user a gentle VPN reminder if it can't find it.

Of course, a VPN introduces a lot of extra work for the user. Even the steps to connect/disconnect from the VPN add enough friction that some people won't bother.
Or maybe she wants people at Uber to know who she is, but not the general public.
I think this is the most frightening company there is.
I love German language, but one thing totally freaks me out is that in German numbers between 21 and 99 are pronounced "backwards". That is, 21 is "einundzwanzig" - "one and twenty". I speak German for somewhat 15 years already, but every time I have to deal with numbers below 100, I freeze for a couple of seconds.
Isn't the exhaust just water?!?
OTOH, if you are "rapidly" (insofar as that is possible in space technology) iterating on some aspect of the system that is relatively insensitive to the differences between the Moon and Mars, the Moon being closer shortens your cycle time considerably. Delta-V isn't the only cost you might be concerned with.
innocent until proven guilty.

this means that we have to hold 2 competing ideas at the same time until due process has been given, like shrodeinger's cat only for justice:

1) the woman is a victim and the "shitbag" should be punished appropriately.

2) the woman is lying and the "shitbag" is a victim of false accusations.

until more details are known, it is possible that the accused is the victim. If this ends up being the correct situation, than having their names smeared in the public eye for crimes they did not commit is morally reprehensible.
Really, anytime we move faster than we can walk and are on the ground (car, bus, bike, etc.) we're likely to be involved in an accident that may kill us.
> What I really want to see is the other 20 men on her team tell their bosses to cut that shit out.

You're being surprisingly lenient in your assessment here. I'd argue they need to tell their bosses to fuck off and find another job.
I don't think it's flag-worthy because it absolutely could be true. It's not like anything here is that difficult to believe given previous insider reports from Uber. None of the claims here are that absurd.

But, yes, it could easily be an anonymous troll. It needs verification.
One might care where the patches come from as a volunteer community could be less reliable over time than the paid Mozilla staff. I know I certainly feel that way.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"

- Upton Sinclair
At review time, get all of the group in a room, including the manager, and vote on who should leave. Because in a toxic environment, people are discussing that privately anyway, so let's be open and transparent.

The person voted isn't necessarily made to leave. It's an opportunity for them to focus on improving themselves personally, possibly in a program.
The paper you cited explained why we shouldn't send people to space, not why we should.
What would be the motivation behind creating a 'false' rhetoric such as the experiences of women in tech?

I've certainly seen this happening / had to deal with it, I do feel that this is still an issue and something we need to improve. While it's not an across the board problem, I suspect most women working in tech would agree with me; the story, which I don't stand behind as as legitimate, is very similar to the sorts of things I've seen going on.

I wish we could just make it very hard for either false (I've seen this case happen, demonstrably, too) or true claims such as these to occur.

In most cases, talking to leads/mgt BEFORE these things get really bad would have helped and that's something we should be making easier..
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
I'd be surprised if the script kiddies attacking world-writable MongoDB instances know or care who owns them. Destroying the data and then lying is a lot less effort than actually copying and examining it.
Plus they've had 2 rockets go explody over the last two years.

This is really premature. I'd be surprised if they do this by 2020.
I'm fine with exploring space. My question is (given the context of how expensive it was to produce lettuce in space), why send humans?
Some of TomTom's high-end devices like the TomTom GO 920 have built-in accelerometers and gyros, and use "Enhanced Positioning Technology" to perform augmented dead reckoning when GPS signals are not available, like in tunnels and highly built-up areas.

http://corporate.tomtom.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=3185...

Best navigation with Enhanced Positioning Technology

TomTom’s new Enhanced Positioning Technology uses movement and gravity sensors to calculate drivers’ positions when GPS signals are unavailable.

TomTom GO 920 T users will have a much more continuous navigation experience as the Enhanced Positioning Technology ensures the device continues to navigate to its destination, even in circumstances where there may not be a direct line-of-sight connection to a satellite. For example, when driving in a city with tall buildings, underpasses or bridges.

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/tomtom-go-930-review-a1042.php

As you drive along you will often encounter places where the Satellite signal is blocked such as tunnels and underground parking lots. TomTom has introduced a system called EPT (Enhanced Position Technology) to keep track of your position using accelerometers. This is not as accurate as GPS but will help guide you in places like Boston where the Big Dig has created a network of underground roads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TomTom#Enhanced_Positioning

2008: Enhanced Positioning

TomTom released the GO x30 range in April 2008 based on NavCore 8. New features included IQ Routes, which estimated journey times based on average recorded speeds, rather than speed limits, and Advanced Lane Guidance, an on-screen representation of the correct lane to take. The 930, like the x20, had Enhanced Positioning Technology. GSM HD Traffic receivers, plugging into the car's cigarette lighter, added HD Traffic to the GO range.

Refreshed ONE and XL models were released in May 2008, still based on NavCore 7, with an improved speaker.

NavCore 8 updates for NavCore 7 devices, including the ONE v3 and v4, were released in June 2008, giving x20 users (only) IQ Routes and Advanced Lane Guidance, with the purchase of new maps.
After Theranos nothing really surprises me in terms of big names in the pot.
> I'm not playing identity politics. And I didn't mention racism and homophobia because that's not the perspective the author wrote from.

You suggested I'm not qualified to decide if the claims are believable (to me) and suggested that I would be if I was a woman that worked at Uber. "You don't understand X because you're not a Y" is a textbook attempt to reframe an argument away from objective considerations.

> Claiming they're "absurd" as a way to present your argument that we should be skeptical is hard to take to seriously unless you're willing to say you worked on her team, or were another female engineering at Uber.

Please note that I didn't claim the author was a liar. I wasn't careful with my words, but: "This submission is just anonymous accusations. Absurd, unrealistic-sounding accusations."

It's truthful to say the accusations are anonymous. The level of misconduct described by the author is absurd and sounds unrealistic -- if these events were proven to have happened, they would still be _absurd_ and _sound unrealistic_.

> And yes, I probably escalated things talking about privilege, but I think this is a good example of how we don't always realize the ways our viewpoints affect our opinions.

It's not escalation; invoking claims of "privilege" is head's up that you want to talk in subjective terms ("he/she feels", "other group experiences"), which is fine, but not fitting when I'm suggesting that I have a hard time believing an anonymous author's claims (e.g. "guys" at work writing sexual fantasy stories in private chat that the author somehow read).

An an aside, from reading between the lines, we have similar wants for the future culture of tech, but we're working with different strategies.
New use for paper industry's sludge and fly ash in plastics
Coinbase stopped servicing customers in Hawaii
The get attention because the incredible things they already do. If they were some random company that had not done much nobody would care. However with SpaceX its actually reasonable to believe that they will actually do it in the next couple years.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13748302
Two comments

Future Amy's should always be prepared to start recording at a moment's notice. Think Roger Ailes

If you ignore a verbal wrong said to someone else and you don't say something, then it is like you said it yourself.
There is the EEOC. https://www.eeoc.gov/federal/fed_employees/filing_complaint....
Where can I sign up to get notified when the Android version is out on Google Play?
What fuelled the headlines is that the car ran a light while engaging in legally dubious "cowboy" testing with real passengers.

The human analogy is "<politician> ran a red light while drunk". The point is that they made errors of judgement that then caused this unsafe situation, rather than it being a random accident. (Especially in this case, in which high-handed defiance of both principles and the law is an established narrative.)
That was the understanding I had, that not being in the group of people who do those types of things is what lowers your risk. But all of this is inferred by "what we know about the people who died" which as the article alludes to, is not a perfect measure.
Finally the tin-foil hats can be satiated when these tourists see the 50-ish year old flag on the moon.
Stripe is quite a bit cheaper: 2.9% + $0.30 per successful card charge.
I agree with you. I don't know why I agree with you. I strongly don't want my child swearing until he's ready to do so. I recognise that this is irrational, and that it's just sounds. Especially because I swear a lot.

(Although I feel like this I would support a teacher who chose to use the uncensored version of The Martian in school. )
Not with the fuels used by the Falcon rockets. They use LOX + RP1 (kerosene), rather than LOX + LH (which does produce water).
I cannot understand the need for a thing like Pocket. Much less why Mozilla prefers to keep it close, and even less for money.

I mean, what is wrong with bookmarks and sharing links? Firefox can even send tabs to other computers I got linked via ff sync.

Iterate on a bad idea, give it a social spin, and voilà! You have a sellable startup. Except you should not buy that.
Finally. I am so so hyped for SpaceX's development. Hopefully they can stay afloat to experience stability and a stage where they can sit on funding and provide credit for fusion and/or antimatter research. Glad they're here to give us a glimpse into the future of space travel.
Are there any female Uber employees on HN? I wonder what they think about a) the veracity of this claim and b) why they are sticking with Uber.
Or you can look at it like someone is bankrolling a significant trial of several potentially species saving technologies. (I understand you're playing the devil's advocate, just trying a response)
"If I behave like an asshole, and nobody calls me an asshole, I'm actually not an asshole."

Yeah, makes perfect sense.
> As you can see by loading the image, all that's required to access the file is the path which is returned by the app every time my profile is loaded.

How else would you do it?