skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber is sitting on billions of dollars of VC money. I'm sure that there are some very high-powered law firms out there salivating at the chance to represent these women in a class-action lawsuit.

Maybe the victims won't get as much recompense as they deserve (because so much of the judgement will go to attorneys), but I would not be so sure that Uber will have them outgunned in court. At the very least, it could teach Uber a lesson by putting an expensive crater in their VC runway.
Lists and tags are the same thing, where with "tags" URLs can be on multiple lists.

Tags are essential. Think about this: a user saves this link to a list of stories about Pocket. He also collects links about Mozilla's management, so he puts it on a list of stories about Mozilla. Then he remembers that he wants to talk about this link with a friend, so he adds it to a list of links he wants to share with his friend.

According to "lists," he has to choose between one of those three lists, while with tags he can use all three. Search does not replace tags, and neither does having to manually type keywords into the description field.

Leaving out tags is a fundamental oversight. I would never consider using any service that didn't have them.
I think all of your points are very valid, but they're focusing on one part - virtual memory - which you suggest to remove (and this can be done today by not using that part of the hardware, and in this case the penalty of having that unused hardware is AFAIK fairly small.) My original point was that adding (or changing) hardware to accommodate HLLs is not going to buy you as much performance as people think, and this is focusing on a different part sw/hw boundary (basically what should compilers/interpreters/runtimes be doing vs what should be handled at the ISA level, versus your points which talk about what protection mechanisms we want and who among hardware, software and OS should do what here. I guess I should have said C/RISC and keep Unix/MMU out of it as I did in TFA.)

What will actually happen with protection mechanisms I don't know; certainly Unix-style mechanisms are used to ever more places with say HSA's idea of accelerators and CPUs being aware of the same virtual memory maps. Compatibility is a very strong force here. On the other hand there's a lot of stuff happening with the memory protection disabled as you described. My predictions here are going to be less educated than many others', to be honest, because I deal with embedded systems whereas most of the exciting stuff here happens in servers, I'd guess (but I can tell that in automotive embedded systems of all places not only do Unix-style processes gain traction right now but so do hypervisors with actual multiple OSes, some of them POSIXy, sharing chips. So this is a data point showing a trend in the "more of the same" direction.)
Wasn't there a blogging platform that was started sometime last year that was just plaintext?

This reminds me of that.
Are you certain enough of that you'd personally risk taking on Uber's legal team using your own time, money, and reputation?
I think it's one of the most famous quotations in the country (it has it's own wikipedia page[0]), and the reference wasn't exactly subtle. I'm betting most downvoters (myself included) got the reference.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_choose_to_go_to_the_Moon
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>Once in a group chat, team members referred to a new Asian American recruit as slanty eye joe. It was normal for guys to refer to other guys as fags when they didn’t participate in private parties where sex and drugs were involved. It was normal for guys to openly refer to attractive female colleagues as sluts when they refused to go out with them. They had private chats where guys wrote sexual fantasy stories about female colleagues and supervisors where they performed all sorts of demeaning acts on the women.

This feels so unreal, just incredible! Amy Anon, time to sue Uber and get yourself a piece of the Uber VC. What kind of cretins work at Uber?
My stated belief was that there are greater than even odds that it is propaganda. Propaganda is a form of spam.

Even worse, propaganda is a particularly nasty form of spam since it tries to alter your belief system such that future propaganda will seem more reasonable to you. Therefore maintaining a keen sense of what is possible propaganda is very important. A healthy brain should immediately try to verify anything that could be propaganda from any ideological position, and reject out of hand anything that cannot be verified.

This will only become more important as the world continues its slide towards fake news and echo chambers.
This law doesn't require you to actively incite illegal behavior, you just have to be the planner of the event where it occurs even if that wasn't your intention. The problem is that a protest can easily turn into a riot, especially if it's not well organized.

It's vaguely worded on purpose.
Interesting. Why? The data is much less valuable:

Because while we can make an informed decision about putting our own data into such a service, weighing up the risks and benefits, a four year old cannot - a parent is making that decision for them, and when you are making such a decision on behalf of someone else it behooves you to act more conservatively than when deciding on your own behalf.
You don't need to give a server. It works fine with just host ICE candidates from the server and no stun or relay candidates.
This is really cool tech, but given the current political state, I can't help but worry about a powerful army of robots -- presumably with weapons attached -- being put into the hands of a leader we might consider to have "unreliable" judgement.

I wonder: if a country can deploy an army of robots to achieve its military ends, how does that play out in the long run? Does this mean future wars will just be "our" droids versus "theirs"? Does this "solve" terrorism in the long run, or make it much worse. Also, seeing aggressive robots feels scary.
> some are using multiple threads while others are single threaded

Perhaps sort by cpu (seconds) rather than (elapsed) secs.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php...
They basically failed out of existence before this even happened (the article includes details on their share price sliding to nothing earlier last year), which is probably one reason they didn't bother telling customers about it. This is probably the best example I've ever seen of the dangers of trying to keep a service running once the company behind it has gone under.
Hope it was helpful.

It's unclear what you t-tested here. Ideally, you would test for difference between groups of "Is there a difference in number of endorsements between people who got a "yes" in advancing to the next round or not". As a followup, is there a difference between those who's preferred was most endorsed or not?

I'm a bit stunned that you didn't recognize Language as programming language...... :(

As an example, people probably get endorsed for SQL or CSS far more than their programming language of choice that is tested in an interview.
A Lexus would do much of the same; Toyota's already got plug-in hybrids, and is working on hydrogen fuel cells.

(As for the other expenditures proposed above: real AOC Champagne supports the vineyards and traditional practices of the Champagne province of France; caviar... supports sturgeon fishermen? But consuming both together is just conspicuous consumption -- Champagne is a dessert wine. :) )
Next year seems extremely ambitious. Wouldn't humans next year, mean non-crewed test flight this year?
If by half the array you mean your solution must include either the first or second, and either the last or second-to-last, then the problem seems a lot simpler. This ought to work:

function maxsum(arr)
local max = function(a, b) if a > b then return a else return b end end
local best = {arr[1], arr[2]}
for i = 3, table.maxn(arr) do
best[i] = max(arr[i] + best[i-1], arr[i] + best[i-2])
end
return max(best[table.maxn(best)], best[table.maxn(best)-1])
end

print(maxsum{-1, -2, -3, -4, -5, -6})

This prints -9, though it's not set up to track which numbers it used. (It wouldn't be hard to modify it to make it do so.) Note that Lua uses one-indexing.
I'd argue Fowler's claims are similarly unchallenged.
I was, too. 2G is getting shut down in Australia, so this new thing is useless to me.
> sapping the entire organization of revenue seems like it would hurt drivers and developers at least as much as management, if not more so.

Drivers can easily move to Lyft or other competitors (at least in markets where Lyft is active). In fact, I would venture that most drivers already drive for both Lyft and Uber.

Developers can (and should) look for jobs at other companies.
I come from the country that gave birth to Cesare Beccaria and I won't stop believing that everyone is innocent until proven otherwise. Besides this is exactly smoke, blocking us from seeing the majestic damages Uber is doing to labour ad mobility all over the world. there will always be a woman who'll accept to work for them if the pay is good enough, the ones harassed will be maybe compensated one day with a few million dollars, but the elephant Uber will still be in the room. No matter what, they are still growing, and doing it fast.
That's what really scares me, and all the engineers who did a great job of building their infrastructure are, IMHO, somewhat responsible for giving them the power to abuse it. I'm sure they all thought "let's give'em time and see what happens". This happens! every f*ing time. will we learn someday? will we stop to go west looking for the gold? I'm not sure we'll ever understand.
Exponential growth is a joke, you hit the first limiting factor and you end up at best on a sigmoid. Or probably nowhere.

Running Twitter on Wikipedia budget is trivial, we have IRC networks that handle similar volume of traffic on volunteer budget.
Distributed open equivalents of Facebook and Google also exist. The problem they face is always marketing. On a shoestring budget you cannot afford that.
I normally disagree with everything 'yummyfajitas posts, and I personally dislike Uber due to the number of well documented unethical actions they've taken. Additionally, I think this type of story has played out so many times that no one thinks the story is truly unbelievable.

In light of all of that I still think this is the kind of story that needs to be verified before action is taken. Just off the top of my head I could think of a number of reasons for someone to create a false story in this situation ranging from semi-believable, a competitor like Lyft adding more fuel to Uber's current PR fire, to conspiracy theory level, China trying to hurt a foreign company so that Didi Chuxing has an easier time growing.

Its unfortunate, but the internet allows unethical actors to craft and spread unverifiable stories with little effort but a high payoff due to the emotions of everyone who reads them. The same feeling that leads us to want to take action after reading this, because it would be genuinely terrible if true and we want to believe people, is the same feeling that leads anti vaxxers to believe fake science they find on the internet.
And just to add an endorsement, Accenture is a highly evolved technology firm. If you're looking to work somewhere that treats everyone equally and would never tolerate a Mike #2, give them a shot. I am not an employee, but have done several contract stints internally and they are simply the best workplace I've ever been around.
I wanted to fight you one this. I went out and found how much a couple in the SV making a million a year would take home every month.

It's about $33k. My only friends that make that much money work in tech. $33k is a comfy yearly salary in Montana.
The problem with stupid people is they think the obvious is clever and pithy.
We've gotten to a point where regardless of who's in the right, the most (only?) effective way to attack a huge company is controversial allegations posted under the veil of anonymity. Regardless of what (if anything) in these allegations happened, this is costing Uber ridiculous amounts of money and all it took was an anonymous blog post.

I know I'm a horrible person to say this, but if I were an Uber competitor, these posts would be part of my marketing arsenal. If unaccountable journalism produces results, it's going to be used. If it isn't already, it will. There's too much money and not enough risk in it.

And the only way to fight against this is to not let yourself be part of outrage culture. We have evidence-based courts for dealing with these things.
As an interesting side note, this is also seems to be built on top of the Parse Node.js self-hosted server, based on the schema provided.
GPS also does not work underground. Anyone who has driven through Boston's Big Dig and tried to rely on turn-by-turn directions quickly learns this, accompanied by much cursing.
Which would be more expensive: a personal SpaceX flight to the Moon, or personally funding a high-speed rail line from Seattle to Vancouver?
asking for forgiveness rather than permission is not something any company should do when people's lives are at stake
The shark one is misleading, I agree.

Out here in California, most people never go more than ankle deep in the water if that. Those who do surf usually only do it occasionally, in very un-sharky places.

How many people really surf regularly in sharky places like Ano Nuevo, Russian River Mouth, Bolinas, and so forth? My guess is that you should probably be dividing the number of shark attacks by something measurable in the thousands, not 36 million.

Whatever that number is, it's still damn unlikely. But still, if you're in the habit of surfing in known shark feeding grounds while dead seals are floating around, I don't think shark attacks divided by the total population of California is a good reflection of your risk.
Don't "rarely" use it. Delete it. Now. Close your account, explaining to Uber why you've done so. Tweet/Facebook/Blog about having done so. Encourage all your friends, family, and coworkers to do the same - explaining exactly_ why you came to the decision.

There really is no other self respecting choice. Sitting on the fence is condoning and enabling their behaviour.
Agreed, and I'm not defending Mike#2 in any way, but good men perhaps have children. Mortgage. Family plans and life goals. It's a really shitty situation.

Perhaps evil triumphs if great men do nothing?
Nah they need to fail. Lyft or another competitor would soak up the drivers immediately, a huge number of them already drive for both.

Silicon valley alums of a top tech company are not going to be hurting for jobs in the near future.

It sets the example that bullshit like this is not workable and will bring you down. There are no net downsides to uber falling.
That's a compelling argument, but I'm not actually sure I want that.

Uber's endgame is self-driving cars, which will put a lot more good people (Uber drivers and non-Uber drivers) out of a job. That's only feasible because of Uber's aggressive attitude to growth and crushing competition in long-term-unsustainable ways in the hope that the technology will materialize soon. If they change enough that this isn't their endgame or they don't pull it off in time, I don't know if they're financially viable.

I think that that goal and that pressure is part of why Uber is as rotten as it is (see how HR repeatedly doesn't want to fire abusive people who are allegedly high performers; even if the rest of their team would do better without them, Uber can't afford to figure that out).

Meanwhile, if they fail outright, it seems like basically all Uber drivers also drive for Lyft, and the engineering staff can get good jobs at lots of other places. It'll also be a good precedent for future companies not to try the strategy Uber has, and hopefully prevent more problems along these lines.
what in the actual? Let's not reinforce dim-witted stereotypes. There are all kinds of people. I have met the Socially Awkward, introverted, nerdy, absolute jerk prick asshole programmer as well. The type that attempts to anonymously create hentai comics of female coworkers. Nerdy men can and do become "High Performing Managers" they just use email more.
Maybe it's something that is of value to a lot of users and a non-profit (http://www.computerworld.com/article/3011418/web-browsers/mo...) might help move that important software in the future. Like a competitive open-source browser, a competitive mail client is a good thing. Not everyone want to use the cloud.
You say people should indicate when behavior is inappropriate.

Notice the disagreement and downvotes. That's telling you your behavior is inappropriate.

Perhaps you should reconsider your position on the issue.
Ok, I can see the value added as entering the page to a fully-built PC without necessarily needing to know all the components needed for a PC. I guess it's just API integrations for US sellers that caused most of my problems. Looking forward to seeing this page do well.

And G4560s are hard to keep in stock anyway so that's fair on your part. They are really surprisingly good.
> If Uber went down, a lot of good people would be out of a job (both employees and drivers)

Employees yes, drivers not so much. There's plenty of competitors that would love to fill that hole.

> and it would burn a lot investors, thus negatively affecting the funding landscape for years to come.

Maybe letting investors know that company culture of how people are treated has real negative consequences would signal to them that they should pressure these companies to behave in an appropriate manner. Burning investors for ignoring the writing on the wall about Uber's behavior (there's been indications of problematic behavior of executives for years) is exactly what needs to happen.
On a different end of the spectrum, Emily Calandrelli is giving a $35M figure for the last ISS ticket: https://twitter.com/TheSpaceGal/status/836333012056842240
Is there still going to be a "theirs" standing after a first power deploys massively "our" robots?
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” -Abbey
It could be Elon.
Not only that, but the original Read-It-Later extension did exactly that: it stored links directly in Firefox's bookmarks system in a "Read-It-Later" folder. Only later did it begin using its own, separate database.
Even though this is tongue in cheek, I always think elaborate theories like these and conspiracy theories are comforting to people because the truth: the world is chaotic and people are fallible, is so disturbing.
What do _you_ think about "the veracity of this claim"? Is there really _any_ doubt in your mind about Uber's management and culture? Seriously?
Along those lines, just the air conditioning for tents in Iraq and Afghanistan circa 2011 eclipsed NASA's budget http://gizmodo.com/5813257/air-conditioning-our-military-cos...
yep, and as I mentioned above, what percentage of those surfers are actually regulars in sharky places? We're talking about a very small slice of the total surfing population.
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Imagine that. Facts and political correctness in diametric opposition.
How about the kids who don't leave cutesy messages and saw disturbing or threatening things? How about the parent who sits on the thing and says something?

Voice data was once safe in its obscurity... now I have a $2 app on my phone that can do decent voice transcription.

It's just one more thing to worry about.
The flags have been bleached white by the unfiltered solar UV due to lack of lunar atmosphere
So why would I buy this instead of an OrangePi PC ($15) or an OrangePi Zero ($8.99)? With the latter, I can actually use an M.2 SSD with the HATs available for it, and I'll get 40MB/s unlike the Raspi's 4 to 5MB/s, plus both are fully libre hardware and have much more CPU grunt than this Raspi (4x Cortex A7 @ 1.2Ghz vs one ancient ARMv6 core at 1Ghz).
Up until the LinkedIn redesign a few weeks ago, I used to run a bit of javascript every day that would pick a 100 people randomly on my LinkedIn "friends list" and endorse them for one of their listed skills that I hadn't already endorsed them for.

Every time I did that, it caused about 20% of the people to view my profile, which gamed my LinkedIn statistics so my profile was ranked higher in various searches.

I haven't rewritten the script since their redesign, but I'll get to it soon.
It is a PR problem because all the other people who did not have problems do not come out and say they like it there. If people come out and say I think uber is good to me they will look insensitive given the context of two women with bad experiences. PR will create a place where other people can speak out.

Over all churn rate in the valley is pretty bad, uber cannot doing any worse than the other companies there.
So is your comment basically suggesting that I'm autistic?

I'm fairly certain I have no respect for the people who are downvoting me. And when you suggest I should adjust my opinion because its unpopular, obviously no one has respect for you.
In typical conversation people will say "800 A.D.", so I think you're wrong.
I tried that (I googled to see what am I missing) didn't help.
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One answer (not necessarily the answer) is to ensure that up-leveled calibration conversations are happening and that next-level managers are informed about their people.

It's a delicate balance and, as a director myself, I don't claim to always get it right. But the goal I aim for is: if we have a good manager hiring great people and a mediocre manager hiring mediocre people that we calibrate correctly across those managers rather than claim that one is inflating their rankings.
The reason you have a computer that fits in your pocket, much less requires its own room with a reinforced floor is due to the NASA space program.

On edit: meant for the parent comment, but its parent instead
You are absolutely right. We shouldn't make assumptions. We should be looking at the data to see what we value we really are getting for the subsidy.

But, since nobody seems to be incorporating that data in the discussion, I'm not sure we can really fault the other commenter for believing that we are getting the desired results out of the existing subsidies. The results haven't shown up as a clear negative with respect to the intended outcome, so it is natural to assume, without better information, that it is working just fine. And, as you said, if it is working just fine there is no need for change.

Absolutely, more data is needed in this discussion to evaluate the effectiveness of what we have and to compare against alternatives. But to outright dismiss the unmeasured effectiveness of a subsidy because a handful of people have proven the willingness to do the same without that subsidy seems to be the only silly part of this discussion.
Well, what if they were cmd+f'ing?
Bookmarked. Hoping this proves to be the structured intro to web development and JS that I need.
Hopefully it isn't. In the event that something goes wrong, we need him here.
No idea. Was just trying to spread the news as it's been leaked and the pi foundation mafiosos are trying to squash the leak.

Guess pi is better supported than orange pi though and better software support