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I had an issue a few months ago with a sweater from Github that usps just never delivered. They left a lock box key in my unit that just opened an empty locker. Package was weirdly never marked as delivered.

Just recently they emailed me telling me they "searched" for it but found nothing. I get a feeling they never even bothered to look for it. The box is probably still sitting in a corner somewhere.
That assumes all of the spammers care enough to learn the limitations of txt.fyi.

Some will just scribble whatever, where-ever possible.
Behaving unethically often benefits people in the short-term, but in the long-term it usually ends up a net negative, especially if the behavior keeps up. Uber's founders apparently don't understand this, and have imparted to you their misunderstanding.

Uber will have increasing difficulty attracting and retaining talent now that their toxic culture is public. When you're a rocket ship people are willing to gloss over a lot, but Uber no longer has 100x potential returns on options. The liability only gets worse as the stock matures.

Not to mention the wave of lawsuits that is likely coming as Uber employees are emboldened.
I would consider Susan's blog post a form of evidence, but just about the lowest form there is. I don't know Susan personally, so I can't speak to her character. Maybe she's a pathological liar or maybe she's the most honest and genuine person I'll ever meet. The point is that I don't know, and unless you know her personally neither do you. This is not a controversial fact I hope we all agree.

Forms of evidence I'd be interested in seeing: slack chats, emails, internal HR files, etc. that should all in theory come to light if there was an independent investigation. If there is a systematic covering up of sexual harassment at Uber there will be hard evidence to support it, right?

What actual evidence (other than Susan's blog post) do we have that leads to a rational and unbiased conclusion that Uber is intentionally covering up sexual harassment?
Received the same response when I cited the same reason for deleting (among a few others).

Interesting that this PR push comes in the very message that confirms your account has been deleted (and after they warn it can't be brought back). It's past the point of potential retention without attribution gymnastics.

They know you're gone, it's just an attempt to impact sentiment enough to discourage you from encouraging others to quit.
Yours might have been interpreted as they advocated never getting rid of swap :)
Morse code on an apple watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wydT9V39SLo
The Kapors are invested in Uber. If anything, they would care more about the success of Uber than all the other commentators here--aside from any employees.

Right now, they're probably walking a fine line between doing the right thing and maintaining some sort of ROI. I didn't know about the Kapors until today, but considering Mitch's background as an EFF cofounder, the companies Kapor Capital has invested in, and their two other articles on Medium posted a year ago, their actions show they care about more than just profits.

If all the Kapors' effort happens to be for "burnishing SJW credentials" then so be it, at least they're making a difference in the real world.
Literal interpretation. I would give him/her the benefit of the doubt and say meaning they keep flubbing like a bunch of fuckwads every chance they get
I've found a good basis in abstract math makes a really wide range of mathy stuff accessible. The first two chunks I would tackle from a high school math + college calculus foundation would be set theory and group theory, and though it's an oldie, I'd honestly recommend Russel and Whitehead's "Principles of Mathematics" for the former as a start.
Years ago, about 80% of desktop machines were never opened during their life. It's probably higher today.
I get your point, but for the indentation case in particular you can use `git diff -w` or append `?w=1` to a github PR url.
I've just started disassembling a report file format. In python. This is going to be so useful. Thanks!!
You want me to explain how I would do it or just do it?
Same thing happened to me and some other people:

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=signe...
I agree with your comment; but I do have to point out the comment you're replying to specifically conceives a political landscape with more than two parties, that can indeed be considered as zero sum as well, yet two major parties can feasibly agree on something at a net loss for others.
Are there projects (companies, organizations, something else) trying to solve the problem or improve the situation? Maybe focus on a specific field as I'm sure there is a lot of domains where reproduction is just too expensive or too complex.

Reproducibility is a very important part of the scientific method, I would love to contribute to or work on that kind of project.
I have had /tmp as tmpfs for a couple of years since arch switched to this layout. I ended up having the opposite problem, probably because I never had enough RAM.

I have only ever enabled swap when compiling a few projects with "-j8" would take up all the memory. Using fewer threads would usually end up being slower than more threads + swap.
After this update Rails is on the track. And even before, you could use gems to make the use of modern JS stuff. This update just made it faster/easier to start using it.
I have a related experience. my two way authentication has a registered phone number that I don't recognize at all. The number has a Florida area code, but I have never been to Florida before. I emailed google, asking if my account was hacked, who (ip address) added that number and when did that phone number add to my account. no response :(
I remember those Skins. Didn't you also post on Skinz.org?
Since python has had generators that "are just functions that yield, without special annotations" like, forever, I was surprised when vanilla JS decided generators need more punctuation.
> Read the damn article.

> Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article

I read the article. Yes, localtime requires the call; that wasn't my point. My point was that for plenty of common, server-side code, either this isn't required, or is inconsequential.

The former case that I was consider is the formatting of timestamps into TZs in the context of a request being server by a server. Most server-side TZ conversions I've ever needed can't call localtime, b/c localtime is wired to not the user's timezone, but the TZ of the machine the server's code is running on, which is typically either nonsense, UTC, or whatever the devs like. Server side code needs (of course, YMMV) to use the user's TZ, whatever that may be, so I'm making calls to a library built for that, e.g., pytz, which doesn't need to stat() that the machines TZ as there is no point to doing so.

The other instances the author lists that do require localtime are instances where localtime's stat call is the least of your worries, as you're about to perform other operations that are much more expensive.
I mean, right off the bat it fundamentally misunderstands an investor's ability to just "pull" an investment, so I wouldn't consider the comment logical or reasonable.
Volatility has been decreasing by meaningful amounts every year, and will continue to do so if the market size & ecosystem keep growing.
> Ethereum has an inflationary schedule

In practice, where some percentage of coins inevitably goes lost every year, this still reduces to a deflationary schedule.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin with its hard limit on coin supply, will likely experience some miner incentive perversions when rewards become dominated by fees rather than coinbase.
They did use standard channels. For years. And Uber execs kept being fuckwads about it. At some point, enough is enough. If you don't stand up against injustice, I don't want you within 8 million feet of a company I work for.
That phrasing is a bit unfortunate ("Babysitting...women partners and board members would help"). Do you mean that having more women partners and board members will bring a different perspective on leadership, or that women are better suited to babysitting the man-child types that infest the industry?
fron the perspective of some founders, its easier to take the dumb money from overseas investment and sovereign wealth funds as you get the benefit of the funds but without the baggage of a minority investor with a blog who wants to change the world.
Hey, Thomas Sohmers (the presenter) here. Feel free to ask any questions... it is a pretty long talk, and I recommend watching at 2x speed if you have the ears for it.
Bitcoin's value comes from speculators who use exchanges not the blockchain. Their off-chain transactions don't need to confirm and they don't pay (Bitcoin) fees.

Long-term "hodlers" also probably don't care if it takes a full day and a $100 fee to cash out their $100K of profit.

People who actually use the Bitcoin blockchain could all be scared away and BTC would still be $1,000.
I think you're misplacing where the deep breech of trust has occurred ... if an investor stays silent in this situation, I would regard that investor as suspect ethically.

And in this case, if the investor is pissed at Travis for not getting in touch (a different breech of the relationship), this is pretty good way of getting their attention (well, possibly).

Edit: disclaimer, I should declare my bias: #deleteuber
Heh. No really... what would you give up? Compromise means you have to provide something to the other side. I hope you looked at the link I posted.

Suggestion: fixing gun rights to be like driving rights, recognized in every state, so that driving from New Hampshire to Texas with a gun isn't a felony. (imagine if you needed a separate driver's license for each state)

Suggestion: allow mufflers on firearms to help prevent hearing loss. We allow mufflers on cars.

Suggestion: where carry is allowed, it may be concealed, and non-concealed is never worse than a fine.

Got any ideas? Remember, it has to be something the gun owners would actually like. Without giving something up, you aren't making a compromise. You're just taking more of the cake.
This is an excellent and disturbing article. However, something very important was missed.

Let me start by saying that I think that whenever we have a problem in this country, one of the things we should do is look at how other countries handle it to see if there is anything useful we could learn.

That being the case, we need to know how other countries handle the over-treatment problem. Are there studies on this? Perhaps the authors could write a follow-up article.
> gradle. Yes, it's a new configuratio language to learn

Don't forget Gradle has the choice of 2 languages to use for configuration -- Kotlin and Apache Groovy. If you use Kotlin you get:

* full Android Studio support for auto-complete hints because Kotlin is statically typed, and Kotlin and Android Studio are both created by the same company, i.e. Jetbrains. (Groovy is dynamically typed and auto-complete only works 80% of the time.)

* Kotlin can also be used to build actual Android apps instead of Java, so you can use the same language for building the app and writing the scripts for builds, tests, etc. (Groovy had Android support added, but 2 yrs ago the programmer who do it was retrenched from VMware and no other business wanted to hire him to continue the work, so it's a bit dated.)
Explain lol. My hope is it becomes harder to manipulate what links we're clicking any given day, or easier for dang etc to do their work.
Is that what actually happened?
So far I've only seen unsubstantiated allegations, nothing more.
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A blog entry is not evidence. It is a claim.
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Really interesting to see how the idea of the paper came to life and how the author wrote it down on a box of Kinder chocolate :)
That chart was kind of weird itself, though. Can we really believe that more people have heard of CoffeeScript than "Plain JavaScript"?
The point being made by the parent is that Susan's post is as much hearsay as Travis is defending the culture. Ie potential bias goes both ways
DA has always had a culture of being a safe place online to post something you've made without fear of ridicule. I joined in 2001 as a person-who-liked-drawing but had no scanner, so I tried out writing, since that was a category on there that other people were doing, and I got terrific feedback from a handful of strangers, who quickly became friends. Now I consider myself a writer. Programmer/writer, but writer nonetheless, and I don't think that would have happened without DA. I eventually became a programmer there for a while too, so maybe I wouldn't have become either of those. ;)

Anyway, as far as I could see, that welcome-to-the-community experience was happening to everyone who joined, if they were participating at least. It's bigger now, so it's hard to bump into the right people when you're new, but that same DNA is still there. Read the comments on any popular piece - it's usually positive and constructive. And often extensive.

I don't know if I'm replying well; I feel like this ultimately just sounds like "you had to be there" - but when it comes down to it, I believe the amazingly positive culture is the answer to "what was amazing?"
Awesome site. I shipped a few car tires when working at UPS that we just slapped the label on and a box of rare earth magnets that was a huge pain to ship. Also some guy's removed testicle to get tested for tumour cells was pretty weird but it just went in a normal box.
If u want to exec from a process using a large fraction of the physical address space on the machine, you need swap to maintain a nice amount of virtual adddess space. Needing swap and using swap are different things. How swap interacts with the process and memory subsystem is poorly understood.
Blog seems down, here's a Google cache link (click the text-only link to avoid waiting for the images to fail to load):

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Hkhxzsz...
I'd point to Theranos and the secrecy they employed. They were acting poorly at a business model level but their culture was also supposedly not great
oh man! loved that game.
No, that's not the definition of theft.

Theft is the criminal (i.e. against the law) stealing of someone's property without their permission. This situation would have been complying with the law, stupid as it may be. It's much closer to abandoned property or salvage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI_HFnNTfyU

They could do it with stationary electromagnets. :)
For those that study human subjects, releasing video's of the subject is not going to happen any time soon. Participants have rights, and anomyity is an important one.
An employee made a claim that Uber is intentionally covering up sexual harassment. The CEO of Uber is now investigating the validity of those claims. I agree this is not about putting Susan Fowler on trial. It's about finding the truth, and we have Susan Fowler to likely thank for pointing us in the direction of that truth. The nuance I'm trying to point out is that knowing what is true still requires actual evidence. I see a lot of people coming to the worst possible conclusions about Uber without said evidence, and I find this concerning. Seems more like a mob mentality than a group of rational people trying to find the truth.
not necessarily referring to this specific Uber scenario:

How do we justify it being okay to date a coworker, but morally wrong to ask him/her on a date or for sex?

full disclosure: I'm currently dating a coworker. Though she was the one that asked me out

Of course, asking repeatedly can become harassing. But for the other cases, if you genuinely think the person you are asking might like you, I don't see why it should be illegal to ask them out or to have sex. Isn't that all this Uber guy was guilty of?
What a colossal waste of money.
You do realize that Uber is a private company and shareholders can't just "sell [their] shares," right? They most likely need board approval, from a board that is likely still controlled by the CEO.
I recommend using swap together with zswap, and increase swappiness. Zswap is available in mainline kernel. It keeps compressed "swapped-out" pages in memory (so they are accessible quickly on page fault) and only uncompressible pages go to disk. Usually most of memory is compressible and overhead is small, so it is suitable for many workloads. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Zswap .
Glad to hear it is not just me. Thanks for the link.
> All GUI code I've seen relies on inheritance and dynamic dispatch to structure APIs.

Rust has dynamic dispatch, by using trait objects (https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/trait-objects.html). It also has something similar to interface inheritance ("trait Foo: Bar" means that everything that implements the trait Foo must also implement the trait Bar), and one can always do "C-style inheritance" (have the parent be the first field of the child) for structs.

Given that, I'd say building a large, complex GUI framework in Rust is possible. I also wonder how a GUI framework written for Rust (instead of Rust bindings to a framework for another language) would look like.
How do you know it's from Uber? Don't they have a partnership program where you can collect some $ from convincing new users to join? Would be easy for anyone to sign up, get a bunch of a coupon codes, then post these reviews.
It seems like they feel some responsibility for having put money into a business where toxicity was tolerated, and also that their trust in Uber's management has been breached. Why do you think it's so important that they keep their views private rather than state them publicly?
Hey, consider Google Cloud as a solution, super low cost and scales automagically, load balances etc.
It seems like an air compressor might do the same thing but more efficiently... But then I remembered they're trying to do this in a vaccuum
> I've seen this type of complain at every single company I worked for

Er, have you? Fowler's post said she was sexually propositioned over Slack, by her manager, on her first day, and that HR did not do anything about it, even though multiple women had complained about the same manager doing the same thing. That's the most egregious story of harassment I've ever heard of, including the made-up scenarios in the "workplace sensitivity" training I had to take last week.
Just like universal basic income...
Yeah, or signing up again later. That's why I posted my response, to see what else other folks had got in response.
A note on our lawsuit against Otto and Uber
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>There isn't anything new about this result actually, Google just set aside the necessary resources to demonstrate it.

I think that was the point. Google wanted to show that anyone with sufficient resources could easily pull this off.
I think the argument here is twofold:

1) If you have some first-preimage attack against a hash, that attack can probably be "continued" such that it produces multiple preimages.

2) Even if your attack can only ever produce one preimage, since there's an infinite number of documents that can produce the same hash, it's vanishingly unlikely that your attack will produce the exact preimage that you already have (note: this is assuming a cryptographically secure hash, where all outputs are equally likely). Therefore, even if you can only get one preimage, it's still almost certainly a second preimage.
You may be confusing, "thinks they're changing the world," with something more like, "Trying not to do any more harm than necessary."
And Google Ventures is an Uber investor... so Google is effectively suing one of their own portfolio companies.
Patents, or Trade Secrets?
Lets do neither one.
>Would you trust Walmart with an Echo type device in your house?

Offtopic, but that's an odd example. I wouldn't trust WalMart to be fair to their employees, suppliers, etc. But, they aren't the company that comes to mind when I think "who would I least want to potentially listen in on me whenever they wanted?" The company I do worry about in that space does happen to sell an Echo type device...and it's not Amazon.
Functionalism versus intentionalism
Yep - just posted my response because thought it would be interesting to see others. Anyway, seems like they have some functionality to provide canned responses based on events and the reason you provide.
I love how the article essentially says that each situation is different and then says 20% of RAM is a good rule of thumb.

In my experience, the most commonly used swap configuration is minimal, 500M perhaps. And vm.swappiness=1.

I'd say it's more rare to find a system that actually needs swap than one that can do without it.

I have yet to run into an application that for some reason needed swap around.
The market does that for you when there is actually competition, which there is for transit providers. The natural monopoly is only the last mile which by definition is at city-level scale or less.
Perhaps in theory; is there any evidence that the USPS actually operates this way?
What company would you trust with an Echo type device in your house? I think the entire proposition is insane given the state of the law.
Because Windows 98 always kept enough resources available to show you the c-a-d dialog. On Linux, however, there is no "the shell must remain interactive at all times" requirement, so a daemon that gobbles memory and your rescue shell have the exact same priority. Modern Windows even has a graphics card watchdog and if any application issues a command to the GPU that takes too long, it's suspended and the user is asked if it should be killed. Probably not what you want on an HPC that does deep learning, but exactly what you want on an interactive desktop.

I suppose it might be possible to whip something up with cgroups and policy that will keep the VT, bash, X and a few select programs always resident in memory and give them ultimate I/O priority, but I haven't tried.
Just the slow and steady decline of HN..
Facts don't count anymore.
It will be interesting whether they will respect "states rights" in this case.
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