skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The market is free only for those who have earned or inherited FU money. No one else can actually compete in any meaningful way in the free market, they might get lucky now and then but over time that's become nearly impossible similar to winning a lottery ticket, as anyone without money is competing against people with money or their lackeys. And with that same money they can buy preferential treatment when their bad bets blow up... which is paid for by the masses, but controlled by people who they can buy or at least coerce due mostly to wealth.
She should hope they go after her. That ensures retaliation damages.
Why not? It's not generally forbidden unless there's conflicts of interest (like sleeping with your boss)

And definitely a reality of most industries, especially if you spend a lot of time in the office and little time socialising externally.
You should put your reputation on the line when you make such vile comments.

Your profile says you're the "technical founder on a bootstrapping startup," I want to make sure I never use your product, do business with your company, or take calls from your recruiters.
> Uber execs found out about the situation after Recode informed them of the chain of events between Singhal and the search giant this week.

> Indeed. According to multiple sources and internal notes read to me, after discussing the claims of an alleged encounter between Singhal and a female employee first with former Google HR head Laszlo Bock and also Google CEO Sundar Pichai in late 2015, he denied those claims at the time. He also apparently stated a number of times that there were two sides to every story.

> To be clear, Singhal’s dispute with Google has nothing to do with that situation or the recent lawsuit that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has waged against Uber’s Otto division.

The part that worries me about "perfect storms" like this when two competitors are in multiple disputes (both legal and in the marketplace) is it is a convenient time to leak information that will remove key players from the other company and it does appear that Recode got the information from someone who likely is currently a Google employee.

I'm not saying this time it is false but I have seen that pattern play out before where accusations from a previous employer who is a competitor for the current employer get "released" to ruin someone's reputation at a critical juncture. Although, in that case it wasn't sexual harassment but the same principle applies imo.

I'd like to see something more verifiable than a business competitor's employee acted as a source for a news article. It is like trusting someone's enemy to be honest rather than slip the knife into their back. If that is the standard of evidence we are using to destroy people's careers, it is a lower bar than I'd like.
I'm one of the flaggers.

This is an entirely anonymous complaint with no particular reason why anyone would believe it. A lot of it read to me as too perfect. Too designed to hit all of the right buttons to generate outrage.

I won't deny that it could be true. But I'd also give that possibility under even odds. And if stories like this are true, then we'll likely have enough opportunity to learn that later to give this version undue attention.
It is very strange to me when I read these "Survivor" stories. I really can't relate to them not because I am a male and don't work in Silicon Valley but because I know I can and I have quit companies because I couldn't tolerate to work there. There is not fucking reason to keep suffering at a company for whatever reason. QUIT as soon as you feel unhappy let alone you come to a point where they "break" you. Are you kidding me? This is not North Korea. No one is forcing you to keep suffering. You are living in a goddam United State of America, and in a goddam Silicon Valley.
C'mon, Elon has surpassed all of these guys. Steve Jobs comes the closest, but he was a brilliant designer, not an engineer like Elon. Wayne Huizenga is an interesting character, obvious business genius, but nothing like Elon. Jeff Bezos is brilliant at executing, but he has only really built one company, and is dabbling/nowhere close to what Elon accomplished with space ventures.
What point are you intending to communicate here?

That there is a stereotype that people interested in software engineering are "nerds" who are losers and picked on in school? That the stereotype is accurate, and "yet again" software engineers bully other people because they were bullied?
So, how is this any different from using "grep -f known-sites.txt"?
> Allegedly, you can read things offline, but that feature never works for me.

Strange, because that is the main use case I use in Pocket. I save article there, and it stores it for offline reading, striping all formatting. It isn't a bookmark manager, it stores stuff and doesn't need internet to read it.
If you've ever entered the country over the last couple years and used one of the kiosks at many airports, they're the same thing. They compare your passport to the image the device takes (and give you expedited clearance if there's a match and no red flags), and IIRC, they have a green light. Facial recognition needs illumination too (edit: but obviously, invisible illumination such as IR would do just fine).
> It seems both women who've come forward would have open-and-shut cases against Uber for multi-millions in damages.

Is it possible that their contracts are written in such a way as to preclude this? Which if so is gross and shouldn't be allowed by contract law IMO, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me.
As it stands, I can read only the left column of the Web page.

Suggestion: Turn on or leave on the horizontal scroll bars of the Web page.

Then when I magnify your fonts by 4x or so so that I can easily read your content on my screen, I can scroll horizontally and still see the other half of your Web page.

In general, Web pages need both vertical and horizontal scroll bars. Even if a page looks good on the screen of the Web page designer, without the scroll bars the screen might be a disaster for some users.
Please tell me what is "vile" about saying "I believe Susan, but this blogpost strains credibility. If the author is being honest, I hope she speaks to an attorney".
> Complaining about the same while earning $700k is maddening

Yeah, I don't get that. Just pretend you "only" make $160k, save the rest, and you can still buy a house outright after several years.

No idea how they thought moving to LA for a $350k paycut was worth it...
Yes, hats indoors are disrespectful. Every been to a movie theater?
pretty sure somebody over at sparkfun.com would be able to point you in the right direction.
This post is the most trite and obvious fraud. HN commenters displaying some Breitbart and T_D level confirmation bias here.
>H/R ACTS AND WILL ALWAYS ACT IN THE COMPANY'S BEST INTERESTS. NOT YOURS.

Except their actions here are not in the best interest of the company...why do people keep posting this in the context of discussing Uber? These are casebook examples of what HR should not do.
You are not alone, but I just use bookmarks for that. Is using Pocket any different from that, e.g. does it save pages internally so if the original site goes down the page will still be available in Pocket?
You are just reinforcing my point. You're listing people that are generations in the past, which is exactly what I said. you're grouping Elon into a once-a-generation / once-a-century type of person.
> The main thing with the work-around is that you need to start Pocket on your phone while you have a data connection so that the articles are on the phone.

Hmm, I always found this to be obvious, and not a work-around. How else would they entered the phone?
This just feeds into my 1-10 question: just because someone propositioned me because I happen to be in a position of power doesn't mean I'm going to respond to it by bestowing favor.

The socially inept thing probably accounts for a lot of the problem.
> How she chooses to feel and deal with this are under her control. She shouldn't have perpetuated her pain by staying in the situation.

Can you understand how hard it is for someone to leave a job after a short amount of time, knowing that every future employer will see that on your resumé?
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The pure fiction that Republicans have anything to do with free market is simply refusing to die. I simply don't understand why people even still have this connection in its head.
> Privacy and transparency are hot topics right now, and knowing what goes into your phone is critical

At this point, it is basically assumed that pretty much anything coming from the App Store is safe.

Maybe your app updates in a way you don't like (e.g. Instagram's latest redesign), what are you going to do? Not update ever again? There is no safety concern here, and if TOS or privacy policies change within the app, you have to agree to them again so they'll let you know.
I can't imagine why you wouldn't want navigational assistance. The only time I drive without my GPS is if I'm going somewhere I go frequently, along a route I normally travel, and it's a short distance. Any place new, and I'm using GPS, and even if I'm going someplace familiar, and I'm familiar with the route, if it's a good distance away I use the GPS anyway to make sure I don't miss a turn and also, very importantly, to reroute me according to traffic conditions. I don't care how good you think your knowledge of the roads in a city are: there is no possible way that you can know that there's a traffic jam or accident along your normal route (unless you're like Paul Atreides). A traffic-aware GPS system will alert you to these things and reroute you if possible.

The thing that's valuable about having that "big picture" awareness of your city is in being able to second-guess the GPS when it gives you bad information, which is rare but it does happen because they're not perfect, or to know that the route it's chosen will only save you 10 seconds but will take you through a residential area with speedbumps instead of a larger road meant for through traffic.
I question myself what would happen if she openly scream at his face with a nice: Why don't you go and f...
until the resources are self-driving cars?
Driving????
The last time a start up tried to sell us a plug and play generic forecasting SAAS they made the mistake wanting to impress us and showing us their backend code. It was the first time in my life seeing spark code but it took only 10 minutes to find the spot being responsible for uncontrolled overfitting making their product useless. Every time I open a black box analytic tool happens the same.
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to understand. Some guy was unfairly treated at an airport. A common occurrence in the US, so it seems. Now that story gets blown out of proportions (there are many similar cases no one ever reports here), and suddenly we're on a the verge of a genocide. Let's assume that's true. What prediction would you make and how much would you bet on it that would confirm this hypothesis is right? How likely is it that it's just some TSA agent ego-tripping?
Seems to me the author is trying to characterize herself as boring, intelligent, hard-working, skilled and educated. A model employee. An asset to the company.

As opposed to the standard MRA characterization of all women as flighty, bitchy, whiny, screechy, slutty, dumb, "cheaters" who slept their way to the top somehow using their devious womanly wiles (but won't sleep with the MRA in question because they hate men).
I'd like to thank these brave women for coming out and speaking against these evils. I rarely use Uber but more importantly, I'm not interviewing/working for Uber ever.

p.s. I've had one opportunity in the past that I declined due to lower pay package. Current one seems good, but I'm not going forward.

#nouber
This thread is being carpet bombed at an increasingly quick rate by people concern trolling over the anonymous nature of this post. Additionally, another post has indicated that flagging behavior is off wrt this post.

Reader beware.
> It's surprising to me that neither have pursued Uber in this regard.

Reasons to pursue sexual harassment litigation:

* You may make some money.

Reasons to not pursue sexual harassment litigation:

* You will have to devote an enormous amount of money, time, energy, health, and your emotional well-being.

* Your lawyers will take half the settlement, either in up front fees, or as a portion of the bounty.

* You will get to share, and then be brutally cross-examined about all the worst bullshit you had to endure in a courtroom.

* With so much money on the line, you will trigger a smear campaign against you, whose impact will persist long after the trial concludes.

* You want to program, instead of dealing with legal bullshit.

* You just want this nightmare to be over, instead of it being brought up over, and over again.

* You don't want to have your name permanently associated with "Sues your employers for millions of dollars". Good luck getting a job after that.

* If for whatever reason you lose, you will get to enjoy all the damage to your reputation, all the trauma and indignities that you had to re-live, the black mark on your employment record (Who would hire a liar who sues her employers?), and you'll probably be counter-sued by Uber. I hope you're independently wealthy.

It's easy to suggest the nuclear option when you have no skin in the game.
> It was normal for me to get to work at 7 in the morning and leave late at night with only a thirty minute break in between.

Yep, sounds like a bad place to work.

Just a reminder that you can change jobs after 6 months in the valley, there is really no need to put up with that or wait for evil managers to make the place hell.
But the argument here isn't about the character's situation. It's about swear words in schools.

It's less censoring and more of an abridgment.
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are these not once-a-century type of person? Where are Elon's contemporaries? You're reinforcing my point.
My favorite stat about micromorts is that motorcycle travel and canoe travel pose the same risk when measured by distance. That is, one mile of motorcycling has the same risk of death as one mile of canoeing.
> it is 2017 and we don't have single good IDE for them

What are your criteria for a good IDE for C/C++?
Or learn how to manage monthly funds.
Perhaps because her name would be indexed by the search engines as this story is shared thousands of times? Would you like the #1 search result for your name to be a sexual harassment story?
Yes, I agree, as part of what makes this program appealing is its simplicity and its relatively un-leaky bucket. That is if I have $2000 available for Bob, it's still pretty damn close to $2000 by the time it reaches his account.

As you suggest, it's difficult to imagine this shoehorned in with the tangle of programs administered by multiple agencies.
I see - sorry, I'd missed the "not" in "the way not to go"
> and little time socializing

Maybe that's the problem.
You wont receive as many recruiting emails. I only recruited via linkedin for a while because the way I saw it is that anyone with an account is at least passively interested in hearing from me. If someone didn't have a linkedin I didn't take the time to track them down.

That being said many (including myself) recruiters now use other sites to find developers. But it's definitely less than the amount who just search linkedin. It doesn't seem like you were getting very good emails from recruiters to begin with so it may not be an issue for you to get rid of your account.
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> The second one gets the same message across in my opinion, but without resorting to obscene language.

Same denotation, different connotation and emotional content (assuming both sentences are spoken by the same person). There are people at my work from whom the first example is heard daily, and people for whom it would be severely out of character.

> Is it normal to hear your professor or boss speaking like that in a professional setting?

Only one or two of my professors, out of a couple dozen, but probably 3 of the 5 bosses I've worked under would occasionally use that kind of language.
That is an inaccurate description of dark matter. It was originally theorized to explain why the rotation curves of galaxies did not match the mass distribution of the observable mass in those galaxies. There were several ideas for what form that mass could take, but many of them have been eliminated as possibilities (black holes, stellar objects that are too dim to observe, etc.).

There have been several independent observations that are explained by dark matter, and it's not like the theory for dark matter was specifically changed to accommodate those observations. The most well-known is around gravitational lensing, as the amount of observable mass in clusters of galaxies does not match the amount of distortion that we observe. There are however several others. This kind of independent validation of a theory from other angles is a textbook case of how theories are validated - they are proposed to explain one thing, but turn out to also explain other things.

MOND meanwhile has a much tougher time explaining the other observational evidence. It has had to be extensively patched to fit the other cases. Additionally, as noted elsewhere in the comments, neutrinos are not dissimilar to dark matter. Both are forms of matter that it do not interact electromagnetically, making them all but impossible to detect directly. Theorizing that there is more than one such type of particle is not very much of a stretch. Taking that into account, MOND seems to be a much more complex solution than just having another type of matter with properties similar to those we have already seen.

Almost all of the skepticism around dark matter comes from outside of the scientific community, and I think both the name and it being lumped in with dark energy (which is just a placeholder, not an actual validated theory) are part of what contributes to this. While obviously the consequences of this skepticism are significantly less dire, the reasons for it seem pretty similar to those of climate change skeptics - primarily tied to human intuition.
"Less taxation" is not the same thing as "tax favors for admittedly religious ceremonies".
Centrelink has all sorts of horrible things said about it, and recently in particular they've been doing some pretty unethical things around debt collection. But the thing is that they're a government department full of civil servants. It's their role to implement policy, not to defend government actions - that's for politicians to do. It's not a tough position at all; the correct response is "We don't comment on private matters", and you hear large entities say it every day.

Imagine if the IRS released Trump's tax returns. Trump has been lying about them being held up by the IRS (all those years? seriously? can't release some old ones?), but the IRS refuse to be 'fair about it' because it's a matter of privacy. Even though they're being maligned and it's clearly in the public interest. This Centrelink issue is the exact same thing, except for the clear public interest.

Besides, Centrelink doesn't need a reputation, since they're not selling anything. People go there out of need, not desire.
Yes. Because I've done it. And you tell people it wasn't a good fit. And if it's uber you tell them it's because uber is a bunch of jerks.
Not even halfway through reading it and I swore that somehow I must have missed that today was April 1st. Extremely sad if true, however highly questionable whether it is true.
"Travis is well known to protect high performing team leaders no matter how abusive they are towards their employees."

Time for this Travis dude to resign, right?
> give back to people who are less fortunate

> I want to give and do more

> life change

These are not descriptions of moving from Google to Uber. The quote obviously implies some kind of philanthropic activity, not just getting a different good job.
Not sure what kinds of companies you've worked at, but from what I've seen, founders, execs, and their inner circles aren't nerds.
Unfortunately, no joke.

Minimally, do not charge things in a bed or covered by a blanket.
During the dying days of calling myself a libertarian (I think the last permutation was "realistic geo-libertarian") I read a blog post kinda like this, but less concrete. It was by a guy who made up a word, something like "Mazolith", and he was trying to describe how letting these forces unchecked was this hyper system that we were failing to recognize.

One of the lines was

I got to about there ^ in the comment before I remembered more of the quote. The article I trying to find was this:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

It is extremely good and it plays well after DHH's intro. I know some of the arguments there against libertarianism are strawman arguments, but overall it's a great article and about a day after reading it and thinking about it I started just calling myself a Liberal (it's more complicated than that, but it's the closest fit).

DHH touches on exponential growth specifically, but more generally what is needed is to recognize the world as a system of forces and feedback functions, and to take actions to limit the consequences of those systems.

For example, democracy is a system to establish which people run our country. If media is allowed to be funded by foreign forces unchecked then it can subvert our democracy. We must now make a choice, do we do something or allow it? For a time we allowed it because our propaganda works better than theirs (mostly because ours is the truth and we live in free societies) but with the advent of social media we may need to make a different choice or change our systems to adapt.

It is this type of thinking. It's a superset of what the Canadians and others call "good government". It's a way of managing systems to enact our ends: a more peaceful, prosperous, sustainable existence.

Capitalism and growth have a place, but that place needs to be carefully considered and guarded.

It's that or we perish in a nuclear holocaust or melted, polluted planet.
Why do we need Prophet when we already have Temple OS (http://www.templeos.org/)?
HN hates anything that bashes the misogynist culture of Silicon Valley. This story will be flagged dead shortly.
Drinking Water is my first listed skill. I turn off the number so no one can see it but over 55 people have endorsed me for it.
This seems a great story of technical ingenuity without top notch business execution. Would like to see an analysis on how the business should or could have been developed.
Yeah, this can be a pretty serious crowd (which I actually think is a strength of HN, as humor can be so easily misinterpreted on Internet forums).

You've likely noticed how contentious and combative this topic has been in particular. A lot of people seem to be looking for any excuse to undercut another's comments. While that wasn't your intent, the lack of good faith that some people grant others can lead to unfortunate behavior. 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.
Isn't the market for (most) domain registrations international?