skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the bottom line is that some founders believe that you have to tolerate abusive personalities in order to hire the best.

I had a person on my team once who I did not hire but who had a reputation for being one of the smartest and most capable engineers. As his new manager, I expected that I'd soon promote him. But then I saw that he treated others on the team very poorly and often said highly inappropriate sexual things.

I talked to the founder and was told that he's really a great guy, etc. As it got worse I mentioned the pattern to HR, and HR was initially concerned, but then after HR met with the founder it was as if I was imagining the problem.

I tell this story simply to point out that the same culture that tolerates bullies and harassment can happen even when there is a female founder.

I know it's a cliche that bullies are always deeply insecure. I think that is the case for workplace bullies too. The brash, over-confident, aggressive act that these people put on works to help them find out who they can victimize.

Others who interact less closely often perceive people (particularly engineers) who have a brash, confident attitude as being smart and capable. Just because someone quickly points the finger and shoots down other peoples' ideas doesn't mean his/her ideas are smart :)

I don't think bullies can thrive in a healthy workplace culture. There should not be any question that certain behavior is inappropriate and is grounds for a stern warning (or worse). But once this doesn't happen, a sort of law of the jungle emerges and bullies and exploiters can take over.

The more information that comes out about Uber's culture, I think Travis probably needs to go.
> Future Amy's should always be prepared to start recording at a moment's notice

It's not always that simple. California is a 2-party consent state. INAL, but my understanding is that a private conversation (in a non-public place) means all parties have an expectation of privacy, which makes recording that conversation without the consent of all parties a felony.

Presumably, getting consent from your harasser to record their words and actions would be troublesome...

Again, not a lawyer, but that's what I've come to understand as a CA resident.
Well your correct that a valid address would be needed to access the content. But if you are being told by an api to access Z content it's easy to say "here is a sig that's only valid for the next x mins" (x being something you base on your user base) instead of anyone knowing the file name of the file (which they can get from dumping your db) from access the file without having that extra layer of protection.

Disable indexing on s3 and you need to know the direct link. Dump the table to get those links but then you still need to know the secret your app shares with s3 to create the sig needed to download from s3. I.E. They need to know Z and X and X only gets issued to people logged in and expires after a time. Knowing Z alone gets you nothing.

I do the same to protect the s3 bucket from direct access our cache pulls from (cache has a shared secret with s3 to pull from. Cache also has another signing process for the client to use to download from the cache). Client Signing for Z file is not valid for client+1. We just use a cache in-between client and s3 as we managed to get a deal thats cheaper for us then direct access to s3. But the same could be done for direct client to s3.
Fowler's post established that this was happening to many women in the company. If we accept that Fowler is a credible witness, which I think is a fair assessment, we already know that this is a systemic problem. It's safe to assume then that if more women come forward, they are more likely to be telling the truth than not.

Additionally, it's in Lyft's or other detractors best interests not to fake additional claims. This is a scandal that will grow on its own, as/if more women come forward. If Lyft et al is caught faking claims, they discredit all the claims and make themselves the bad guys instead of Uber. All Lyft has to do is sit back and watch Uber dig themselves deeper into the hole they're in.

As other posters have also touched on, there is a history of men (and women) doubting and minimizing abuse claims made by women. This is not a good mindset to take as it minimizes the women's experience in favor of a corporation or individual who is already in a more powerful position than the accuser. By minimizing one accuser, we make it harder for women as a whole to speak up against abuse, which is not acceptable.
Based on what is being written about Uber's culture it's not obvious he wouldn't have been offered job if this had been known. Now it's clearly a liability.
It looks like their Firefox addon has (https://github.com/Pocket/pocket-ff-addon), and I guess by definition you can get the source of their Chrome addon and getpocket.com, but I don't think they meet the definition of open source unless they're somewhere other than Github. Also their mobile apps seem to be closed source too.
The way it's going: driver licenses, traffic laws, DUI tests, insurance, uninsured pilot protection etc. The big question is are the emerging sky laws in the U.S. going to federal or local?
I imagine they don't want to send too many people up at first because 1) it's heavy and 2) there's a non-trivial risk of mission failure.
OK Cupid blocked Firefox, a non-profit with less questionable business practices than most tech companies and certainly Uber, over Eich's quiet private donation which ought to be a smaller deal than systematic sexual harassment with consequences for victims instead of perpetrators (although the donation was proven while the harassment is alleged; I doubt this tips the scales of public sentiment though.) The overall reaction on HN was mostly positive. I'm sure an Uber boycott can be figured out. (Is it a good idea? I dunno, in Eich's case the question is different from this case and there's much to discuss, I'm just saying that people these days are fairly eager to boycott and fairly good at it once the proper mood sets in.)
AFAIK, those incremental tests in the past were done because we didn't know the effect(s) space would have on humans. That's not really an issue now.

There's not much point in saying "Ok we've got this thing 98% safe let's send up a chimp and see if we explode" when you could just as easily not send up a chimp and get the results you need to get to the next level of safety, eventually reaching something reasonable to put humans in.
whats really needed is an actual un-fucked-with consumer grade encryption standard that is headless, touchless and on forever with no offswitch.

Alas, that wont happen either
Yes, that is another possibility. Which was my point: even at the time it never occurred to me to interpret their dress or behavior as being flirtatious with me. This should be the default consideration for adult men to have.
This must be taught in business schools somewhere.
I sure hope so! I wouldn't want to be on that flight.

The NASA article brought to mind a story of a well-known Cosmonaut knowingly launching in an unreliable vehicle because the politicians insisted. He died. He flew because he didn't want his understudy to be killed in his place. (I'm sure someone on HN knows the story better than I do ...).
I personally know someone who went through this (related to IP, not sexual harassment). I understand the lawsuit dragged on for about seven years. He finally got awarded about eight million dollars in damages but hasn't been able to collect a single cent of it.

When Peter Thiel says "single digit millionaires have no effective access to the legal system" [1] on the surface that sounds laughable and out-of-touch but I think there's a lot more truth to this than most people would like to admit.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.de/peter-thiel-hulk-hogan-gawker-...
If there is, then I did not find it. I created a db of my own, with scrapers.
Its not discrediting, its asking for proof. There are some very harsh accusations here. And if there is one thing that I learned about the Internet, that its full with trolls. Just look at some Reddit dramas on what lengths people will go to troll others.
I have a hypothesis that if we could evaluate confidence levels, we'd find that both men and women who had lower confidence would be paid less than engineers with higher confidence, regardless of gender.

There's a great article published by Salon called "The Confidence Gap" which talks about this issue. Women do seem to have less confidence than men in western societies, but that's a greater social issue.

If you are a female engineer who finds out you are underpaid, go find a new job and ask for the salaries you discovered your male counterparts made. You'll most likely get it.

..and in general, you should switch jobs at the 2 year mark if you're young and fresh out of school. That way you don't get stuck as a Java/.NET/Ruby/limited-language developer, you expand you skills and you know to ask for larger increases with each job and get the current market rate. If you get stuck with the standard 2%~5% cost of living increase each year, you'll be under market value very quickly.

The wage gap is mostly a myth. When there is a gap, it has less to do with gender and more to do with the larger socialite taboo of knowing other peoples' incomes. If income/wages were transparent at every company, we'd see much less income inequality.
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Agreed.

A bear that records voices and gives remote access should not need to store data on a server. Store the data in the bear. That's the way these types of bears have always been. The only thing new here is remote access...

Storing my kid's private voice recordings on your server is just plain creepy even if you don't leave it wide open.
They are viewed as somewhat missing the point, and so aren't enjoyed.
It really seems to me that if you want to find the most evil women you possibly can, you just need to go talk to women who work in HR.

There's no way I'd ever date a women who worked in HR. Once, many years ago, I met a woman on an online dating site who worked in HR for some big retailer. She made a comment (in the messaging app, we never met) disparaging the people who interviewed to work there. I commented that maybe if they paid better, they'd get better applicants. Never heard back from her after that. (No, she didn't work for CostCo; they're famous for paying well for those types of positions, and having very loyal and hard-working employees as a result.)

It seems like HR people are really the worst kind of people: they're just rank-and-file employees usually (except the HR Director), but they'll happily defend the very worse corporate treatment of employees.
Additionally - If the elites make it lucrative enough it will be easy enough to get labor necessary to complete the tasks. Tribalism is real and if they were able to convince a subset of people to complete their ends then controlling the minority/subset would be easy. It boils down to basically why Nazi's and Aryan pride were successful.
> I also think that spending money on a roundtrip to the moon is way better for humanity than spending it on champagne, caviar and cars.

How? I'm not saying you're wrong, but gut instinct is that automobiles are more useful to humans. I'd like to hear your thought process.
That is how the author of ordermap currently describes ordermap at the top of the GitHub README.rst
Just fyi, generally someone who filed a complaint or being investigated by HR doesn't have access to HR's internal notes on the investigation.

It very much reads as if a HR employee is the source. HR works for the company and only hands that information out if legally compelled or its to the company's advantage. They don't give internal memos on HR issues to the employees involved because it provides them with no advantages.
the basics of vim are easy... it's a language to manipulate text with mnemonic shortcuts for the most part and composeable actions.

`daw` is delete around a word(includes the ending space if there).

`ciw` is change inner word.(change the word under the cursor by deleting it and leaving you in insert mode to make changes).

`ci"` is change inside the double quotes.

p is put or paste

d is delete

c is change

f is find

a is insert [a]fter

first answer here[1] is a classic.

1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most...
It makes sense if you regard humans as easily manipulatable/malleable emotional beings instead of rational beings.

Just a tiny fraction of people are able to look at their "output" in a way that isn't being almost completely shaped by their "input".

If all their inputs says that their behavior is okay, they'll regard it as okay.
I'd like to see it fall and recover. These videos just aren't what they used to be since they stopped kicking them robots.
2001 Nights - Night 1: Earthglow
Nah, that data is weeks old. Some states are as slow as 3 months to hand the registration data to Experian. Better to scrape classifieds ads to see what people are selling ;-)
Typo, meant MR, or mixed reality.
This is extremely fascinating! It seems like an almost un-pc fact.
Uh, a credible allegation according to whom? If there had been disciplinary action or termination I think he perhaps ought to have disclosed it, but this seems like opportunism and scapegoating.

The more we learn about Uber's culture I think the inescapable conclusion is that it might very much benefit from a different CEO.
Wow. This sends so many thoughts cascading through my head that I'm dizzy.

Some things to consider, China has been working up to getting a space capability to send people to the Moon with the full backing of the government funding, by 2035[1]. They started in 2003. SpaceX was founded in 2002 and they are saying they will fly someone around the moon next year? Dragon has the deltaV to land on the moon (not sure if it has enough to get off again though) and SpaceX certainly has the expertise in building spacecraft that land.

The next person to take a picture of the Earth from moon may not be on a government funded mission. That one really blows my mind. For so long it was only countries that could do something like that, now it is nearly within reach of individuals.

The UN has treaties about claiming (or not) the moon by a nation state, but there isn't anything about a privately funded and established outpost that wants to declare independence. All this time I imagined that some country would establish a base there, and grudgingly offer up some space for non-state use, and now there is this possibility of a private facility that states have to ask permission to visit? That is priceless.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2016/04/29/man-on-the-moo...
> Pocket is killer when I'm commuting or without Wi-Fi

... and yet this thread and every other Mozilla apologist thread is always filled with folks who suggest that it's no big deal to assume an always-on, always-available network connection.
Added context. This is what happens when you take 6000+ staff from 40+ departments and create one large centralized IT department with little to no up front planning. An absolute meat grinder. Everything is on life-support until the fire is so large that you have a near national incident and then it becomes top priority. Cycle repeat.

Here's another example for CBSA: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/politics/shared-services-canada-...

Here's another example for DND: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/politics/shared-services-canada-...
The most fun thing is that such risks are generally additive. Not being tied to number of participating in a given activity makes it a bit better for this purpose.

That said, instead of frequentist approach a bayesian one would be more relevant. This would allow including fuzzy participation data like never, once per year, once per week, daily etc.
Sorry if I gave the wrong impression. Clearly you have the judgment to understand that. I was just elaborating by pointing out an aspect of people in positions of power and their egos - 'obviously she's infatuated with me'.
If I were in a meeting and anyone referred to one of my coworkers as a "bitch" I would walk out of the meeting immediately and report it to HR. There's no way to know that the men in the room when "Amy" was insulted like that didn't report it to HR but it really makes me wonder.

There are so many more me in tech than women that they really do need us to be part of the fight against this shit. It is crazy to me that this kind of behavior really exists.
That would encourages a lot of unworkable incentives and behaviors. It doesn't forward the goal of promoting team cohesion at all.
So, just coming forward about these stories is impressive in itself. But both of the recent Uber stories have gone well beyond that: they're coming from people who had horrific experiences at the company and have not only worked up the courage to talk publicly about it, but have put together solid strategies for deflecting a lot of the scummy ways companies, and our society, would normally come after them.

To wit: Uber is a large company with fantastically deep pockets, a gaggle of high-powered lawyers, access to a strong media/PR machine, and a lot of glamour/adoration in the Silicon Valley/startup culture. But those strengths are being carefully neutered!

There's Susan Fowler's approach, which is first and foremost to make sure everybody knows she has documentation to back up her claims. That's a very clear message to Uber that 1) they never ever want to be in a discovery situation where she could start issuing subpoenas, since she's let them know that she knows where to get the damaging documents they don't want coming out, and 2) leaves them guessing just how much documentation she has, and so unsure of how to publicly reply: if they try to downplay the incidents she describes, or attack her record, they don't know whether she might produce proof that they're lying about it.

Then there's the approach here, which is detailed enough that the people it targets inside Uber certainly know who the author is and who she's writing about. But it does not divulge any identities with certainty to the public at large, which carries some similar "I left it at this level of detail, but maybe I could divulge a lot more if you provoked me" threat, but also makes it very difficult for Uber to attack her personally. To do so they'd have to out her and details of her employment record, and depending on the details that might put them obviously and publicly on the wrong side of a bunch of employment-related law as well as make them look like bullies.

I would barely be able to function, and maybe just wouldn't be able to, after some of the things that have been described as happening at Uber. I cannot imagine being able to not only call them out publicly, but also put together such a good strategy for doing so, and I have immense respect for Susan and "Amy" for managing it.
That's a good point. Thanks for bringing it up so I can clarify my position :)

It's not about calling one person a liar vs the other. Rather, it's about accepting that there are multiple sides to every story. Without an unbiased third party, it devolves into he said/she said.

If formal charges aren't brought forward (which would allow for more facts/third party analysis), then why should one person be denigrated? Should a hint of an accusation, sourced by third parties, be enough to fire someone over? If so, what does that firing actually solve?[0]

Anyway, I understand this is a trigger issue, esp. after Susan's post, but to over-react is as bad under-reacting: you want to fix the problem, and you can't do that when you are busy scapegoating.

[0] I'm talking about this specific case, not sexual harassment cases in general.
I think this is great. I'm weary of add-ons/extensions so only run a couple (which are from providers I trust)

I didn't really trust my saved article data to a random startup. Being under Mozilla means now I'll actually use it.
The answer is easy, just cap CEO pay. Execs can only earn 25X the average salary of employees incl benefits. That multiplier goes up 1x per 1000 employees or whatever is fair there could be a different algorithm but something along those lines. But there's a measurable way to raise the CEO's pay: Hire more employees, and/or raise wages. -- Along these same lines Congress should also be capped at the average American yearly income + benefits = to average American's. -- Why should they get anything better than the rest of us?
this.

It's sad that a good portion of the hn community would rather looking for good stories that play with confirmation bias.
Let's assume I am an internet troll. What stops me from anonymously signing up for Medium and publishing a similar story, now that there are two out there that corroborate?
I think you mean 1 ~ 2 months. In places like the Valley, Seattle, NYC .. the market is insane. You can pick up new jobs insanely fast.
Why are male employees sticking with Uber?
There is a free market in search engines. There's not much competition going on.
No it shouldnt, because its not nonsense, instead youve responded to a strawman. Thats ok. Its a shame though.

To be clear, youve said a bunch of things nobody would disagree with, as though i disagree with them. Its pretty dishonest of you.
I don't think I've missed the point: I'm saying that a work culture that reduces your dating pool to your company's co-workers is terribly unhealthy, and promotes a lot of the problems w.r.t sexual harassment in Silicon Valley.
Many people hate Uber. Maybe Amy wrote this. Maybe a taxi driver wrote this.

I have no idea, and to pretend otherwise is to fool myself in order to confirm my preconceived notions.
>How to not get sued by overzealous copyrights holders?

I might be misunderstanding, but why is it unreasonable for the holder of a copyright to object to an author using their work without licensing it? This in particular seems like a pretty clear-cut example of actual infringement.
Reading and fully comprehending the full contents and implications of https://twitter.com/internetofshit should be required for anyone who is thinking about making an IOT type device.
Everyone believes the story because it sounds plausible. It's not the first time we've heard of very bad culture at Uber, and it fits the ways they have been reported to treat their drivers, etc.

Most of the women who left Uber didn't publicly announce why they did. Now we're seeing a plausible explanation.
> nobody calls me an asshole

I specifically addressed this. You didnt read my comment?
Fair question. In short: Unless you're buying Tesla your car expenditures won't fund any significant research into improving cars in a way that benefits humankind.
Absolutely. I wasn't thinking of that situation when I wrote my original comment.
Well there's a huge difference when talking about radiation exposures going to the moon and Mars. For one you don't expect a solar event to happen, you really hope one doesn't, when going to the moon. Going to Mars you expect a few.

With cosmic radiation we're talking about the difference between a few days and a year. Plus you have to have pretty good shielding when crossing the Van Allen belts.

You can consider the Apollo missions the trial phases. We learned a lot there.
> The next person to take a picture of the Earth from moon may not be on a government funded mission.

Note that the press release says:

Most importantly, we would like to thank NASA, without whom this would not be possible. NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, which provided most of the funding for Dragon 2 development, is a key enabler for this mission.

Your tax dollars, if you are American, helped pay for this. Thank you and congratulations - if it works out; if not, was it worth the risk?

EDIT: In response to many below, remember that the U.S. military isn't the only alternative use of the money. Taxpayers could keep it, or it could go to other programs such as education and health. (Personally, I'd happily pay more taxes for more space exploration, education, health, and military necessary for security.)