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> the corporate policy of ignoring complaints against high performers

I have seen someone let go for misbehavior in spite of an assertion (at the time) that they were a very high performer. This was not uniformly the policy, and it's not clear to me it was ever actual policy. Susan reports that she was told by other parties that this was the reason - but it is possible she was informed incorrectly.

> the CTO who should have been fired a long time ago for being complicit in other scandals

Could you clarify? I have no idea what you're referring to, and "Thuan Pham scandal" doesn't turn up anything that looks relevant for me in Google.

I have tremendous respect for Thuan. With regards to this particular issue, it's clear he could have done better. At least, he missed a chance to fix this. We'll see what a more thorough examination reveals.

> but somehow you do believe Susan Fowler

I believe Susan Fowler honestly reported her experiences. I believe Susan Fowler because disbelieving her misses a chance to fix things. And I believe Susan Fowler because I don't see her having anything to gain - and plenty to lose - in offering us that chance. I appreciate her bravery.

> how exactly are you intent on holding management accountable?

I am intent on paying attention to the process, looking for honesty and integrity and meaningful change in response, and being vocal where it is lacking. Employees are asking - and Travis is answering - tough questions at the weekly staff meeting. If you have constructive suggestions, I welcome them.

> Should everyone involved be let go, including the CTO and CEO? Do you really believe stuff like this bypasses them?

Some kinds of involvement clearly deserve termination, but at this point we're still learning about what went on. There are possible answers that would have them out or me quitting in protest - and there are possible answers that wouldn't.
I'm guessing it's "Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon", by Ed Caesar (http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review-two-hours-the...)
Just registered. I seem to be able to add keywords, but can't find a way to remove keywords or edit the frequency of notifications. I've tried disabling uMatrix for the site, but that doesn't seem to help. Is it just some weird config with my browser or is that the way it's meant to be?
Not that witty :P
I've been a PE@FB for 5.5 years now. Still enjoying every day.

I worked on data-infra for first 3 years as an individual contributor and ads for past 2 as a manager.

The thing I love most about PE is that it really allows for people to do their best work. During team selection you get a feel for what each team needs in terms of skills and can pick a team where your skills will be best utilized.

Also, we really believe in mobility and encourage folks to do a hackamonth after being on a team for a while. They can sit w/ a new team for a month, and after the month decide if they'd like to think about staying on the team or go back to their original team.

I guess those two are also pretty common w/ SWE. I think the most PE-specific element is that you're given a lot of latitude in the type of things you work on. You can choose to focus on reliability, scaling, performance, architecture, disaster readiness, monitoring, security, network, coding, whatever. There is a lot of flexibility to focus on skills you'd like to develop.
Ask HN: What are your favorite Google Doodles?
I really like the exoplanet discovery one. Which doodles really wow'd you?
..and what problems we don't have they might have!

Planets too close, disrupting each other's ecosystems. The usable ice being distributed amongst several planets when the system was formed instead of a single one.. there's no end to catastrophic possibilities.

This is why I still love sci-fi. Anything you can think of, put it on paper, and it could make for a great story.
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What exactly are Tilt's plans ultimately?
If there was an HN "best of", this post would belong on it.
> teams of onshored developers

You prefer working with off-shore developers? That's honestly the first time I've ever heard that.
Yes, REI is a outdoor sports chain, with a lot of stores across the country. They are actually a coop, owned by the consumers. You become a shareholder by spending money on the store, and get 10% back after becoming a member. Really great company.

That's a good place to start.
Same here. Only way I could read this on mobile was using iOS Safari's text formatter thing that shows up in the URL bar.
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Nuclear pulse propolsion... Project Orion... if only we could figure out the darn problem with the fallout and treaties/bans.
> At this point the hype machine is totally out of control there is no way justify the relative evaluations of tesla

I have been hearing the same argument for the last 3 years now.
So they can mold them into the types of programmers they want.

ie. Train them to be corperate zombies
It even cooler than that: You only have to standardize the types and meanings of the links, the actual implementations can vary in the locations of the endpoints, but the structure of the documents can too, and the client(s) will be smart enough to figure out that on this server they need to retrieve /users/mike/products/, and on that server they need to get /userproducts/mike/all/, just through the fact that the representation of the user (also probably retrieved from different locations) on each server has a link labeled rel="all products" pointing to the right place, regardless of what else was included or omitted from the representation, so you can have interoperability on whatever is standardized even if implementations of both clients and servers have different capabilities they expose.

So, as long as you standardize the semantics and relations, the URL layouts and the document layouts can be quite different, in the same way that you know when looking at a page what the button or link labeled "Home" will do, regardless of the exact location on the page or the fact that on one server it takes you to /, on another to /index.html, and on yet another to /main/home/ .
How's the diversity at Uber? To the best of my knowledge no one knows, and there is reporting today that it's because Kalanick personally prohibited measuring it.

How is a company going to manage toward improving a metric if they're not even measuring it?
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> no way that a civilization that developed on such a planet would not at some point endeavor to travel to those other planets.

That seems like a very human statement.

One could argue for a civilization to succeed it must be content with living on its home planet. And as a result, it would take good care of it.
Well, the data set is huge, so it's not coincidence. And it's unlikely that promotions cause people to grow.

I was once at the opening of a Picasso exhibition where most of the people present were CEOs, and at the same place, I also attended the opening of a exhibition of Yousuf Karsh photos, where he was appeared. I'm tall, but I was nearly the shortest person in that large room both times. The only two times that's ever happened to me.

As for causation, it's been experimentally tested and confirmed, with small groups picking leaders. There's a great old book retailing many remarkable such studies called "The Height of Your Life" by Ralph Keyes. It also discussed research showing that a substantial chunk of sex discrimination was actually height discrimination (see Sheryl Sandberg's remarkably high heels - she knows the score.)

You said I should dig deeper - I've given you my bibliography, could you now favor me with yours?
No, you can't call them not ethical, because those statistics naturally arise due to a plethora of other problems, whenever the hiring process is not deliberately rigged to provide "fairness". In fact I have trouble accepting that such "equal opportunity" programs aren't discriminatory themselves. There are better ways to solve the problem of disproportionate training among demographics.
I've seen many drivers complaining on Reddit as to how many trips are effectively a net loss once one includes things like wear & tear, much less opportunity cost.

Most drivers seem to loathe pool.
Great stuff. Minimal + Functional.
I'm sure tjalfi's downstairs neighbors will love that.
"The Unseen Threat to America..." is an magazine article that is a pile of claims and assertions that omits the appropriate background suitable for a thinking person to judge the claims.

The editing removed the author's disclosure of purpose, removed the methodology, removed the inquiry explanation, and removed the sources of data.

Also I found that the entire Time Magazine website is deliberately organized to prevent any reader from posting any comment.

In it's edited form, this article is the creation of yet another kind of insecurity, confusion and fear.

Regarding the basic thesis that "We Don't leave our hometowns." The author doesn't pay the slightest attention to demographics (we already moved 30 years ago) nor the outrageous rents and home prices of Northern California.

Here is the big puzzle. Why are the Editors of Time Magazine publishing such an article? I suspect that Time shares a view of it's readers that People Magazine has: It is a publication for sitting on the toilet and having a brief transient "wish I was one of the beautiful people" moment.
"Hypermedia APIs" seems to be the up-and-coming term.
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Based upon the evidence that includes the CEO's public attitude and that of Uber as a company and the story told by the former employee about how her situation was handled, it seems like Uber is much more sorry that their culture was exposed than that they have that culture to begin with.

Is this kind of company culture not becoming much the norm in today's hyper sexual society? I can't imagine that these kinds of things aren't happening all the time at other in-your-face branded startups.

American Apparel is another company that quickly comes to mind with problems similar to Uber's.
I do get that it's inconvenient but it's a huge slap in the face to tell a sizeable percentage of your workforce that no, you can't get them a jacket that almost everyone else now has. They could've at least given them something of equivalent value. Even if it might not be sexist, it's a dick move.
And a free burrito...
He said "the developers" and "years ago", implying the founders.
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What "big market" did Tilt "nail"? Haven't heard much about them in a long time.
I wonder how much of this is due to environmental and upbringing factors. How much coke / caffeine do kids drink these days? How much more exposure to media / apps possibly contributes to this? What about how our food is produced nowadays? I don't want to disregard someone's personal experience or health issue, but I think there are some cases where symptoms resembling ADHD can be aided by some lifestyle changes.
I suspect that we are designing for different clientele.

I'm currently in charge of a pretty classic, GET things out, and POST things in API. If my API supports that some non-IT office guy can get his daily report through the browser, and the API at the same time has the power and flexibility needed for someone with IT skills to do more then I've won. Both me and my users gain by me taking extra steps to make it as accessible as possible.

I also fail to see how versioning through urls break anything, except if the newer client no longer has support for v1. In both versioning schemes you specify which version of a resource you're sending/wants to receive, in one scheme you do it through a header, in the other through the url.

>> If a client using v1 communicates with a client using v2, then they will see two separate sets of resources and they would never have the same identifiers for (what should be) the same resources.

Maybe we're defining versioning differently. I strive to make resource types backwards compatible, but if I can't then it's either a new version or a creating a new more specialized resource type for the specific problem.
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You just blew my mind ;)

What do we know about the gas giants' cores?
The unofficial python 2.8 is here:

https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon
> it requires the user to be wealthy and technically proficient enough to own and operate a smartphone

FYI, you can call an Uber from the web or SMS.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenhuet/2015/06/15/no-smartpho...
Its politicization during Obama's first term (Solyndra et al) threw it into the conservative news grinder, and for many people it's still spinning in that context. This is probably where the whole "Tesla is only alive because of government life support. And look at SpaceX just SIPHON cash straight outta NASA's coffers!" stuff comes from.
Thanks for all the comments. I have a pair of keens - https://www.rei.com/product/772930/keen-targhee-ii-mid-hikin... - probably 5 years old and I haven't replaced the soles yet and put a good amount of mileage on them. I've only actually lost one toenail once, but it took about a year to grow back and my big toes do hurt like hell after most hikes and get some small bruising on the big toes after long hikes. I've never thought about the foot swelling when hiking you all are probably right! They're too small when hiking. I'll size up.
Your examples are working against you.

Companies aren't about great products, they're about making money.

Snuggie (Allstar Products Group) is magnitudes less important and powerful than Amazon.

Coming from an executive perspective and not an engineering/developing one
You're missing Oculus VR and Private Core in your list of Facebook subsidiaries.
I agree. Unconscious bias is real. I was far shorter than average until about 15, and well taller than average thereafter. So I found out first hand, quite suddenly, just how much different other people's reactions were to me. When human growth hormone first became available, medically-short teens given it grew considerably and almost uniformly suffered from depression. There previous ways of interacting with people just didn't work anymore. (also from Keyes book)
Does anyone have some resources or examples of writing a Scheme in Go?
> How is a company going to manage toward improving a metric if they're not even measuring it?

What makes you think they want to improve it? If they're after the best it's probably counter productive.
If you want to stay in the MS universe you could have a look at their Teams product. Is better than Skype/Lync.

Not open source/internally hosted though.

And dont feel too bad about office 2003. 4 years ago I worked for a large & well know company was using a more than decade old version of Lotus notes...
1. Trump defended is statements in follow-ups. It's not post-facto reasoning. The media jumped immediately to racism though, just like the other day when they claimed Trump lied about a supposed Sweden terrorist attack, when he was talking about a TV segment. Real journalists would state the facts instead of narrativizing and follow-up to ask what he means.

2. I strongly encourage you question your own beliefs a little. That article has a lot of spin. "La Raza" is not just some innocent phrase. La Raza is dog whistle term for hispanic racism. Somewhere, in another universe, Deshaun Trump in on trial by a judge from the San Diego Klan Lawyer's Association, as people claim "it has no relation with the KKK!" (despite having a link to the parent organization on its own website). Go look up Reconquista [1]. The goal of the Reconquista is to “reconquer” these “lost” or “stolen” territories for “La Raza”—the race indigenous to Mexico. The SDLRLA has a very questionable history, and at the very least, it raises reasonable concern of bias in the case.

[1] http://humanevents.com/2006/07/27/the-emreconquistaem-moveme...
Fistfights. Primates achieve leadership by force - although usually with support from friends. I think that's true of female leadership as well, if memory serves.
Read the damn article. It explains how it's localtime (the function you need to format time in user's time zone) that makes the stat call - to check if the ocnfigured time zone changed.
I used to exercise hours per day, do 50-60 mile thru hikes, etc. And my best fitness was achieved simply from changing my diet, reducing my weight, and 30min of body weight training (pullups, pushups, ...) per day.
I remember margarine being taxed, not being allowed to be colored, etc. The most remarkable taxes are "practical" in the only important sense - that they bring in more than it costs to adminster them. Taxing profits wouldn't slow automation, without a differential in the tax. Mr. Gates seems quite unafraid of irony, I agree. I think it's part of having lived for a long time.
The stock is fascinating to watch because of how binary the perception of the company is. After doing some sophisticated psychoanalysis™, the sharpest distinction I've found between the two opposing viewpoints is design. People who don't understand Tesla tend to be the same people who didn't (and still don't) understand the iPhone. For these people, the Model S is just another car, in the same way that the iPhone would have seemed like "just another cell phone". The idea that "just another car" is going to beat companies that are already making cars (and have been doing so since forever) doesn't make sense.

Related to this is people getting stuck on the idea of an "EV market", which I don't think was ever really a thing. Tesla has been competing in the same car market that every other car company competes in. The electric drivetrain may be a major factor in enabling a superior design, but most people don't care. I think many short sellers are attributing Tesla's sales to "EV buyers" rather than to "people that buy cars that are better than other cars". These are two very different beliefs about what's going on.

The financial arguments are (in my opinion) largely after-the-fact rationalizations.
On the PCT I ate PopTarts every fucking day. Never again...
The best foods for backpacking are actually peanut butter, salami (depending on the brand), cheese, and nutella. They all have roughly the same calorie density at about 70% fat. Toblerone actually comes surprisingly close (even compared to other chocolates/candies).

Raman noodles or tortillas or something like that are generally used as a carrier for those foods to keep you sane, but they aren't very good from a weight to calories standpoint. M&Ms are also common, as they are easy to eat and keep well.

Some people actually just drink cooking oil, but it's rarely worth the tiny bit of extra weight efficiency.
Yes, for one.

Much of the point of the cloud shift was to get your data into the ownership of a private company who can make money off it.

If, for example, Apple can make up some lost money on iCloud with new obsidian gunmetal TimeCapsules with plausible deniability and localhost-tunneling features to sell to rich people, I'm sure they will try and do it.
I wonder what kind of tidal forces these planets exert one one another.
None. That's the point. They ramped up the burn before finding one.
Lost in Tassie
I'm a software engineer with roughly 20 years of experience in Java, .NET, and a range of networking, security and OS related topics.

I'd like to offer my services to someone that wants a keen, intelligent software engineer, that can work remotely. Gitlab aren't an option due to a recent interview/query.

I have 4x100MB/s ports, so remote video conferencing etc is no problem, nor hosting if it comes to that.

I am happy to entertain a significantly lower salary than what would be offered on-site, partly for reasons of commute/living expenses and partly for reasons of team coherence. For comparison, the jobs on offer in Tassie are around the 60-80k AUD mark. I wouldn't accept anything close to those, but around the 100k mark would be OK. Have US/NZ/AU citizenship and can move.

Cheers.
> It's Uber who loses money on those rides, not the drivers.

If you want to view it that way then it's both drivers and Uber that's losing money.

I do Lyft on the side over summer as a poor grad student. I only have 3 pool ride and those three the passenger didn't have to share any ride with anybody and I made less than if those ride were not pool.

You're also implying that in the long ride Uber will win if it works as if the speculative end will justify the mean.

Which, personally, I think a flaw and weird way of seeing it.
Not sure how common this pattern is, but one way I've seen this handled is to do a query to get a list of results, the document listing the results (or more commonly, the first page of results) has a link to a temporary resource representing the set of all results, which you can send a DELETE to remove all the members of the set. By analogy, you could send a PATCH to modify all the members instead.
So I learned F# and C# in parallel. But more emphasis on F# than on C#, and so when I landed my first dev job on C# I was so incredibly baffled at the code base. I would toss my arms up in shock at the sight of reference types or classes being passed around and updated from external methods. The horror! How could somebody do this.

Anyway, now I have come to learn it is just another way of doing things but my C# programming style is heavily influenced by a more functional style. I never realised till I actually landed a job where I had to interact with more standard OOP principles.

I wish there was a way I could do more F# at my work.
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Large cab companies have been using gps-enabled electronic dispatching systems since 2004.

I found a video on my old phone that I'd filmed to show how the system works:

http://www.taxiwars.org/p/electronic-taxi-dispatch-v1.html

Usually I'd make it to the address in about 7 minutes. Sometimes I was parked at the pickup address already (convenience store). I think there are two diaries titled 'instant taxi' on my site...
Yeah, I didn't mean it like that. From what I know, it's more of a "look at this enormous library of knowledge and premade tools I can use instead of doing it myself" kind of old than "look at this steaming pile of plop that hasn't been touched in years" kind of old.
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To power all informal, friendly, crowdfunding I guess?
I think this is my only zero vote, ever. I'm amazed that a useful and practical (for our environment) suggestion was downvoted here; whereas I'd expect that if Brietbart had a forum (which maybe they do, I rarely if ever visit the site.) Did someone not google and assume natural cellulose was obviously still used in filters? It isn't, it's synthetic, a polymer that doesn't degrade.
I would expect the same low single digit percentage for black/hispanic engineers. They measure it, we saw some broad breakdown based on gender (15.1% females in engineering, compared to FB - 16%, Google - 19%). TK said they are going to release full numbers soon.

[edit: sorry, i missed adding details about the low single digit percentage claim, updated that. Thanks zachrose for pointing it out]
From a quick look, it looks as though teams is built on top of skype rather than as a replacement.
Added Oculus. Never heard of Private Core but it doesn't seem big enough as a product to differentiate from Facebook's other internal infrastructure.
I could get on board with BOFH mad libs.