skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, abusing endorsements like this isn't very useful. At best, it's sort of replaces some attribute of a reference. Endorsement is really feedback to validate the field that somebody works in and is probably not a bozo.

If you're interviewing a mid-career programmer, and her endorsements are all for accounting and financial related things, you may have a fit issue to explore. Likewise, if you have a candidate with 200 connections and 3 endorsements, and that's atypical for the industry, you may want to focus more heavily on real reference checking.
Border agent : "You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?"
There is a difference between the mindset of an employee working for a paycheck and an employee considering the success of themselves being tied to the success of the company.

How much money did the company make because of your contributions?
What can you do to make the company worth more?

Are you forming relationships with people outside of the company that will enable the company to hire more qualified people or become better by any metric?

Are you applying your skills in a way that shows others in the company how to do their jobs better?

And so on.

You are not being paid because of your computer programming ability, you are being paid because you can provide worth to the company with this knowledge.
If you are unable to find a way to apply these skills the company will keep you on, giving you a chance to find yourself and keep things going but the people that make more money than you are likely the ones that enable the company to make more money.
> What evidence do you have that it's absurd?

None, which is exactly the level of evidence put forward in the blogpost that it even happened. Susan Fowler's account is a plausible account of a toxic environment; I default to believing her for various reasons. Claims of open/unguarded homophobia racism, sexism, fireable remarks, coworker-sexual-fanfiction are pretty severe as the consequences are steep and financial for the accused -- if this blogpost isn't hyperbole, I hope the author is reading this comment as she should be talking with a lawyer.

> Do you think men don't ever...Because I have know a ton of women...

Disproving absolutes is a fool's errand and I'm sure you know the way this is phrased, I can't argue against it.
The Necurs botnet is evolving, now includes a DDoS module
The OrangePis have much better IO (with the exception of the OrangePi+ 2, which is a bad buy), with each USB port being direct wired & capable of 40MB/s, and an onboard 100mbps PHY. Comparatively, the Raspi shoves all that over 1 USB port, ethernet included, so 4 to 5MB/s is about the best your gonna get with it.
Who else could hire the investigators?

It's a tricky problem, but ultimately you rely on the investigators caring more about their reputation than any one contract. If it gets out that firm X doesn't do objective reviews, then future companies in hot water won't hire them.

The real challenge here is that these investigators are not independent. Eric Holder has done prior work on behalf of Uber, which means he could reasonably be biased towards the company.
As it happens, I disagree with mjolk on this, in that I'm inclined from my experience to find Amy's story pretty believable.

However, HN has lost its mind if merely saying you don't believe a story is now flag-worthy. Why should the odiousness of a claim influence our evaluation of whether or not it's true?
How many Ping Pong balls can you fit inside Travis Kalanick's ego?
Their notifications are top notch too:

"You have 1 new notification!"

tap

... "Do you know these people?"
He probably meant the problem of the seven bridges of Koenigsberg, which was solved by Euler, and is one of the easiest to explain to laypeople, which is good for making documentaries.
SpaceX says 2 have paid for a mission around the moon in 2018
"SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year"

http://www.spacex.com/news/2017/02/27/spacex-send-privately-...
Yeah I think that'll make developers lives easier since games developed for the PS can be easily ported to other platforms.

I don't see microsoft anywhere, although I think they'll have to come around since everyone else is participating.
"Interestingly, kangaroos (approximately 0.1 micromorts) pose a risk of death that is similar to that posed by sharks, but our cute national emblem does not evoke quite the same fear in us."

The fear of running into Kangaroos is real. Hitting an 80kg buck at 70km/hr looks like this:

- https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/5037959035

- https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/5037959047

- https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/5038593608

- https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/5147428118
Some of these measurements don't make sense because they (a) lack a unit of time (b) fail to measure alternatives.

> sitting on a chair (due to the likelihood of falling off it) increases your risk of death by approximately 1.3 micromorts.

Is this per day? Per hour? Per year? How does this compare to laying down? Standing up? Walking around?
Why aren't any of these shitbags getting named?

This type of thing should ruin the guy's career.

Fair or not I'm just going to assume Travis and anyone working for him is just like this disgusting mike#2 fellow.
There is so much wrong in so few sentences that I literally unable to untangle it. Further discussion seems pretty useless in this case. I hope you will find some good economics books that can get you out of this tangle.
> I can't imagine why you wouldn't want navigational assistance.

Here is why I look up directions in advance in almost all situations:

* GPS is a distraction to maintaining awareness while driving, motorcycling, and bicycling.

* Navigational assistance does not help you when walking, taking public transit or taxis. Using GPS while driving prevents you from learning the layout of the place you are in which transfers to navigational competence for these other modes of transportation.

* You miss fun roads when following GPS navigation.

* GPS navigation is useless when planning long bicycle and motorcycle tours. I pick waypoints and routes between them in advance.

* GPS will route you into sketchy situations (like to phantom bridges) that you could have predicted by looking at a map.

* GPS does not take weather conditions into account when routing. People have gotten into floods (easy to see when looking at rivers and topo on a map in advance), stuck in snow, and have even died in the desert: http://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/living/travel/article257...

I do not know very many competent drivers who rely on GPS navigation. I see plenty of "GPS zombies" obliviously plowing through intersections and ignoring crosswalks every day.

The most use I get out of having a GPS dash unit is on trails and off-roading in my truck or motorcycle, where there is usually no signage for forest roads and trails.
>"Great, retain a Chicago politician so you know you'll get the answer you're paying for."

right. regardless of where you stand on his performance as attorney general, hiring eric holder is a political move. if uber actually cared about investigating this, they wouldn't have hired a politician.
> You can't stand on principle about one aspect of an issue and then change your mind when it suits you financially.

If only that were true.
Am I the only one who thinks these robots look like Michael Jackson doing a toe stand dance move?
I think that only applies to air crossings.
I did the same thing. Then I bought a kindle and use calibre to download my reading. That's made all the difference. Much more comfortable to read and I can catch up on an article or two before bed or when I've got a few minutes.
Did a search of all current/past Uber employees based on public data mainly from LI, found only 6 people with those degrees and none were female. Did another search for people who worked as Data Analyst and worked at Uber came up with 6 different people again all male. As other answers suggest the information could be twisted, but definitely not "slightly".
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13748302
Your assertion is that only female engineers at Uber are qualified to have an opinion on anonymous claims? At the very least, your perspective is sexist.
Yes its nice here but do your homework first, its not cheap, its a long way from home for your family, and the job you get is unlikely to be as cutting edge as one in Silicon Valley

.. plus Canada's closer and just as nice IMHO.
I was thinking why they didn't just go with OpenVR, but looks like valve already used that name.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr
Can any statisticians comment why total population is taken into account when only a portion actually participates in said activities?
No, security updates are still being made. Here's the release notes for recent security fixes in thunderbird:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities...
Some of the responses to that article express a sentiment that women should fight back and not just silently take it.

I wonder (doubt) if they've ever been abused. It's hard for someone who has been abused to come forward, let alone stand up to an abuser.

Besides, men outnumber women in tech by a very large margin. It's on our shoulders to help women fight back. Strength in numbers is a thing, and having men who speak up on their own, and who support and reinforce women who come forward can only a be a good thing.
No, I meant "is". Though, to clarify, I meant credibility-in-the-eye-of-the-upvoter.
He`s not talking about policy. Most capitalistic businesses are anti-competitive regardless of policy.
Maybe I've watched too much Suits and The Good Wife, but it just seems that it's all futile. They're a huge corp, if you file suit against them they'll hit back harder with bigger and badder lawyers, and you either settle out of court, or play the lotto with the court system and try your hand at a judgement with whatever lawyers you can afford. It's really sad how stacked the odds seem.
Teddy Bear Leaked 2M Parent and Kids Message Recordings
My Own Dog Food Never Tasted Better
Uber Executive, Linked to an Old Harassment Claim, Resigns
I disagree with this. Most HR departments are functional and would take care of this problem. If you approach HR and they are unhelpful or place the blame on you, it's time to switch jobs, if possible.
My employer set up a similar app thing - also allowing endorsements. Crucially it allowed freeform endorsements.

Didn't take long for people to endorse each other's BASE jumping and pole dancing ability.
Read it later apps are dead. Why do you think Pocket just got absorbed by Mozilla ?
Find a job that you like, at a company whose values are in line with yours, and you'll find yourself feeling more fulfilled, challenged, and motivated to be something greater than what you were yesterday.

I used to change jobs about every 8 months to a year due to a lack of challenge I'd eventually find in every job I took on. I learned things very quickly, and as a result, found myself rather bored a few months in. I'd leave as soon as the lack of challenges and opportunities started to affect my happiness; I struggle with doing the same things every day for a long time. I can definitely do the same things every day, but I absolutely need additional tasks and duties beyond what's expected of me when I first arrive. It's the only thing that keeps me motivated - I need to be constantly learning and actively contributing to my company.

When I was 22, I found a non-profit I really loved with a mission I could really stand behind. The pay was crap, but after meeting everyone there, I decided that I could live a not-so-rich lifestyle if I meant that I could be happy on a daily basis doing work that I actually loved.

As time went on, my ability to learn fast opened up a lot of opportunities and after only two years I had exceeded my own salary expectations.

7 years later, I'm still at this job making more than I need to pay for my current lifestyle, and I'm the happiest I've been in my life.

Moral of the story is, find a job you love, a company that you can stand behind (essentially, your "work family) with a salary that can pay for your lifestyle you have now, not the lifestyle you want. Do this, and I honestly believe you will obtain the lifestyle you want through hard work and perseverance, made possible by happiness and motivation.
I use those all the time and have literally never had to fill out a CAPTCHA to get search results.
Signing an archive would probably be good enough for many cases. Block level is a bit simpler (all or nothing) and thus less risk of mixing with unsigned parts (sideloading attacks).

For security-sensitive embedded devices (e.g. payment terminals), block level signatures would allow hardware verification during boot as well (1st stage bootloader verifies 2nd stage, then kernel, etc.) if designed correctly.
I'm simply pointing out there is an often overlooked benefit to using navigation with a static map orientation. For folks who are "bad at directions" this may help them fix that deficit.
Getting into design as a developer
Important other reason to pursue sexual harassment litigation:

* It gives other survivors a statement of solidarity and validates their experiences. It says that other survivors really weren't crazy; that others had this experience too. For someone who's left doubting their sanity after an incident like this happened, this kind of support is immensely powerful.

* It forces these incidents to be drawn into the eyes of the public.

Uber's rotten culture is only getting attention because someone spoke up.

I see all the negatives you mentioned as failures of our litigation-after-sexual-harassment model that we should seek to address. There's nothing that says we should make barriers to litigation and cost of failure so high.
Internet of bear poo.
>How do you generate an appropriate warning without power ?

Obviously by using a separate power source for the monitoring, which can be minimal and last forever?

Like, e.g. logic boards had a separate from the mains power "BIOS battery":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonvolatile_BIOS_memory
Thank you for this. I'll check it out.
Of course the salaries don't come with it, that why it was moved in the first place.

However, the reality is that if a country has good enough policies so that more industry starts there it will lead to more growth. If you sustain that for 40 years you can go from the poorest to one of the richest countries.

That's how growth works.
^ That's called ideology.
I can't give a good answer on that. I was merely giving you some background details on the alternative perspective to yours.
A guy I work with did a presentation on this product, he is big into reverse engineering bluetooth devices. I can assure you the toys themselves are just as insecure as apparently their infrastructure is.

Seeing it light up and say "destroy all humans" was pretty funny, moreso because there is pretty much zero authentication on them so you could do it from anywhere from your mobile, and the mic can turn on and record without any authentication at all.

sigh internet of things
A quote from an article on the Verge says "Musk declined to comment on the exact cost of the trip, but said it was “comparable” or a little more than the cost of a crewed mission to the International Space Station."

Does anyone have a rough estimate how much a manned mission to the ISS currently costs?
There are already laws against that. Why don't they just hold the people directly responsible, responsible?

The bill stipulates that an "overt act is not required as proof of a riot offense." So planners of a protest could be charged because someone else committed an "overt act" that caused a riot.
Amy, I believe your story because it is a second independent set of events that closely parallels Susan's story.

You do not need to suffer more indignity by "being outed."

Best of luck!
Great story and really nice project. Good luck with that.
You're right, but the end result is the same, and is ultimately good: encourage male-female marriages, encourage stable homes for raising families, less taxation, and a smaller government.
I assume (and have some anecdotal proof) that this type of stuff happens with regularity in other "older" industries. Go to any law office and you'll find women with horrifying stories.

Kudos to the tech community, the majority of whom, don't accept this type of reprehensible behavior.
To be fair, he's describing the tools that worked for him. Scrivener is for taking stories from notes through first draft; it's not a word processor in the same way Word and LibreOffice are, and there's no direct free software equivalent. You could use free tools for the same tasks, but you'll do those tasks differently--and that might be preferable to you, depending on how you work. Scrivener is very powerful, very flexible, and very idiosyncratic.

Vellum is similar, but there are direct free software equivalents, most notably Sigil, a GUI ePub creation tool. Alternatively, you could use Pandoc to assemble an ePub from Markdown (or any of the seemingly several thousand other markup dialects Pandoc knows). I ended up using Vellum for my book because it was incredibly smart about taking a DOCX file exported from Scrivener and turning it into a properly sectioned and tagged ePub, and adding new sections, artwork, metadata and overall book styling is trivially simple. Sigil and Pandoc are great, but they're also lower-level tools by comparison, with both the advantages and disadvantages that implies. For me personally, it was worth spending $30.

Self-publishing is also free or should be.

Well, it's as free as you want it to be. In my experience, YMMV and all other appropriate disclaimers, producing an ebook which seriously competes with ones from traditional publishers requires skill not just in writing but in editing, graphic design, typesetting (or ebook production), and (depending on the cover) illustration. If you have access to all those skills without spending any money, awesome, but it's kind of a tall order.
I wonder who the two people are.
The best way for men to counter this in a toxic environment is to call it out when they see it. This sends a message that being outwardly dehumanizing and dismissive is not okay, and is not the accepted norm.
Tesla plunges another 5 percent on fears of Model 3 delays
Fair point. I think discussion is the best response. TBH, I don't really understand the HN flag system, so I can't comment very much on it.
> We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. They have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission.

Can't wait to hear who booked this trip! Definitely one of the coolest ways to spend a lot of superfluous money :)
You are absolutely right, I wanted to say the ribosome was. I confused both. My bad.
1980s company culture... yuck
That's basically what Reich is talking about. The people with money (power) make the rules. The label is still "capitalism", but the reality is otherwise.

The US definitely does not have a free market. I would venture a guess that most of the regulations are actually designed to benefit a select few at the top of some company or investment system.
I too thought "free market" was all about competition. Explain pls?
She did fight back, told HR about what was happening, stood up to the abusers in meetings. Then when she was physically handled and verbally threatened in a meeting with many eye witnesses, nothing was done to support her or protect her.

What else do they expect her to do? Bring a weapon to work and shoot everyone?
Please, haven't we all grown past No True Scotsman?
The demo has a "Download" button, and then you can right-click and "Save Image As..." So, not a feature per se, but the functionality is there.
>which btw is hideously incomprehensible -- I'm talking old c++ with almost no comments

What does "old" have to do with it? Modern code is all like that too. Every time I complain about it, including just a day or two right here on HN, I get a bunch of responses saying "I don't need comments, my code is self-documenting". In my experience, most programmers do not use comments much at all, and it's entirely incomprehensible to anyone new to the project.
​Uber exec resigns amid sexual harassment shakeup
You could, but you'd probably be wrong though.

Better assign the same, high, probability in all fields where there are humans involved.
zuck and priscilla?
This is why: https://twitter.com/susanthesquark/status/835193441814392833

Even assuming no malice, a rational economic actor faced with a career-ending allegation of bad behavior is interested in discrediting the accusation via all possible means, including discrediting, shaming, or embarrassing the accuser to force a retraction.

And once you're assuming malice, they're especially interested in it.
Huge SpaceX fan here, but I've heard from various news sources that the company is famous for aggressively posting dates and then slowly letting them slide. Might that be the case here? (Still, even if it's 2 or 3 years, wow!)
$82 millions according to the announcer at Kennedy Space Center while I was waiting for the Falcon 9 launch.
There's no such thing as a [cheap] lunch.
...and back!
Hope they like each other.
My thoughts would be similar to the ones expressed by Robert Kosara (and Ben Shneiderman) on that point I think:

https://eagereyes.org/blog/2016/the-personified-user-interfa...
http://www.businessinsider.com/space-travel-per-seat-cost-so...

Russia currently charges $58 million per seat to the ISS, with the price expected to increase to $80ish million by 2018.
Where do benefit corporations and b corps (https://www.bcorporation.net/what-are-b-corps) miss the mark?

Benefit corps have the specific purpose to increase prosperity for all stakeholders - not just shareholders. They are indeed a proposal for a "new operating system" for companies, and it is adopted by many companies (some very well-known) already.

The basic idea is to put a statement of public benefit in corporate bylaws, then sign up for an assessment that audits that your company actions are indeed aligned with public benefit.

This effort, nominally, would seem to address many of the problems laid out in the post, but benefit corps are not mentioned once. I'm not saying its _the_ answer, but seems like a more collaborative, concrete starting point for a solution than "some mass infusion of the 1960s spirit."
Okay, first of all:

>the average parent.. is technically literate enough to know the wifi password but not savvy enough to understand how the "magic" of daddy talking to the kids through the bear (and vice versa) actually works [or] that every one of those recordings... is stored as an audio file on the web.

If it is not considered amazingly stupid, or at least ignorant to not understand that the magic talking bear has a computer in it, and that if the computer wants the wifi password it probably uses the internet, and that if the entire purpose of the device is to make recordings available to you over the internet... then I despair. My sympathy for people who buy these sorts of products is wearing thin. But, in this particular instance...

>our tolerances are very different when kids are involved

Interesting. Why? The data is much less valuable:

>One little girl who sounded about the same age as my own 4-year old daughter left a message to her parents: "Hello mommy and daddy, I love you so much." Another one has her singing a short song, others have precisely the sorts of messages you'd expect a young child to share with her parents.

Hardly identity thief material.