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I disagree. On the face of it, this totally reeks of scapegoating.

Uber has many allegations right now that its current culture tolerates harassment, meaning that current employees (including managers most notably) are alleged to have committed harassment while at Uber.

This guy is accused of harassment not at Uber (according to the article), but at a previous job at Google. There's no mention of any allegations of harassing behavior at Uber. So maybe he did harass someone at Google, or maybe he didn't and someone bad-mouthed him.

If Uber intends to clean up its culture, shouldn't they be first looking at people who have recently been accused of harassment, such as Susan Fowler's first boss, and can those people first? Instead, they find some guy who's been bad-mouthed by a prior employer (which isn't unusual when a company or manager is mad that someone left), and sack him to try to appease everyone and show that they're "doing something".
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>> "I listed out several plainly-worded, well-known, evidence-supported societal issues based in race, religion, and gender and your response is to simply call them "perceived wrongs."

Yes, because you perceive them to be real wrongs, and we do not. I find most of them to be very good and progress for our society towards an upright, life-honoring and wise civilization.

>> How would you suggest the left approach minority voter suppression?

Voter suppression? You mean like requiring identification for voters like many western nations already do? We find it insulting to minorities to say they're being supressed by asking for identification.

In a fair system, each person gets 1 vote. Identification helps ensure that. It's not suppression, it's ensuring fairness.

Most of your other issues are likewise based on false assumptions.
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To clarify "resume and coaching clients", I'm a resume writer, and I also do quite a bit of coaching/consulting one-on-one for people (mostly software engineers) on career topics. Job search strategies, how to position themselves for a next level in a career, etc.

I'm not a "resume coach", and I'm also not sure what one would do if they exist. I'm a resume writer, and I also coach.
Why feed a troll?
If we ever get to a point in society where huge swaths of the population are unwilling to associate with Breitbart in any way, and legislators begin adding laws to the books about segregating businesses into categories of "have dealt with Breitbart" and "have not" and try to (unconstitutionally) apply different rules to each, then perhaps the courts and the public should take your claims seriously.

But until then, you are describing a slippery slope that doesn't make me feel bad one whit.

And to provide an example of this:

"What if no one would rent a building to the American Nazi Party, or provide their offices and employees with internet access, or sell vehicles to their employees, or provide web hosting for them, because of the threat of boycotts against them for doing business with the American Nazi Party?"

Or let's take it back 50 years:

"What if no one would rent a building to the American Communist Party, or provide their offices and employees with internet access, or sell vehicles to their employees, or provide web hosting for them, because of the threat of boycotts against them for doing business with the American Communist Party?"

Or substitute any extreme you like. The KKK, for example.

What you're misunderstanding about free association is that every person - and every business - has the right to choose not to associate as well. Association is not compulsory, and neither is listening to speech. Bad actors like "actual Nazis" (I am not claiming Breitbart is such) do not have a constitutional right to do business with anyone they like. Free association doesn't mean the market must be blind to the participants involved.
Very sad that I expected more stories like Susan's to come out.
If I could go back in time and change one thing about my computing, it'd be to learn proper ergonomics and posture from the beginning and avoid the pain that came later. I often have to type slower than I can to avoid pain. I realize now that all the frenzy to get the ideas out as quickly as possible probably gained me very little time in exchange for a lot of pain. These days, a tool that might increase my data entry speed by 5% doesn't even make it onto the radar because my primary concern is my health and getting rid of RSI. Speed is antithetical to that. Interestingly enough, whether going full speed as before or in a more controlled manner like now, my actual productivity is the same.
Confirmed, building autonomous systems is not easy.

I need to quit iOS dev.
I'm so confused with the HN comments that bemoan the death of XUL, alongside comments that complain about bloat in the browser. It's interesting to see how different people use different parts of Firefox differently.
I think you're putting a lot of weight on "study the mind" versus "study the brain." Not many psychologists are dualists.

They tend to say "mind" because they want to abstract over the actual hardware--they're interested in studying what happens in the skull, not how it is implemented. This doesn't make it any less scientific than a biologist who studies where birds fly while neglecting the aerodynamics of the birds' wings.
Slow? Hmm...are you sure it isn't your server that's slow?
I've been lately dissatisfied with pocket and related apps for lacking some admittedly fringe features.

The possibility of adding them myself without rebuilding the whole app is exciting!
There's a joke at Mozilla that "Opera did it first". Pretty much every new feature in Firefox, Chrome, etc has appeared first in Opera.

In this case: https://techcrunch.com/2010/04/30/opera-fastmail/
It's not really an easy "problem" to solve though.

Civil (ie. government sanctioned) marriage is a social construct that most people want to, and eventually will, enter into. People enter into marriages because they want the legal framework around it. If there were no legal framework around marriage people would have to run around filling out paperwork everywhere setting up their partner as their next-of-kin.

There's also currently no non-marriage way to create the same sort of civil partnership that marriage brings, stuff like spousal privilege and unlimited inheritance just to name two. And these are things people want. If all people were interested in was religious marriage or partnership/love/companionship they either wouldn't bother getting married or wouldn't bother registering their religious marriage with the state.

Its currently impossible to get government out of marriage without also fundamentally changing our concept of marriage.

There's arguments that the "family/marriage" concept is benefited too much in society, and I'd probably agree with that.
> Thunderbird doesn't make money. Pocket makes money.

That's not the case anymore with this merger though, right? Pocket will now cease to make actual money.
Medecine? I believe that's a mis-spelling.

Otherwise, looks nice and fluffy animated, with appropriate buzzword bingo games.

But there's no actual content here. This is just empty marketware.
looks similar to gtk3+ broadway

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You don't, you just wait and struggle to find the 0.00x % of people who fits the role.

There is a reason that this is an impossible to fill role.
> I suspect that's true of rust too.

rustc uses LLVM and jemalloc (by default). Other than that, it is all Rust.
Specialization is good for any kind of production, as implemented by Henry Ford for example. Including the production of children. In the West (when the West was economically dominant, from 1300 to 1967) and in the far East, women used to specialize in rearing children, and men in procuring food and wealth. Both roles were equally important. The undermining of this specialization will lead to two things: 1. Lack of children (a good thing, however the societies that still have this specialization will simply replace the Western children), and 2. Loss of the leading technological/economic position.
It consumes 100% of CPU on FF and Chromium. Come on, please show a little respect toward others, it is only a pixel editor.

Edit: still nice initiative.
That wasn't the claim I made, and I think you know it. I'll repeat my claims since you can't bother to make such assertions truthfully:

If there's a real "cultural purge", we should expect EasyDNS to go bankrupt for
defending groups alleged to be "white supremacist", "racist", and "Nazi".

But I gather they won't be. I didn't hear of "#deleteshopify" until I read this
post, and I expect I won't hear about it again.

If you're reading this, future people, do me a favor and reply to this thread
when #boycotteasydns has caused the company to fold. We can talk about "cultural
purges" then."
The first generation makes it, the second generation preserves it, and the third generation spends it.
If a group has enough buying power to affect your bottom line that means those people are/were your customers that you should be paying attention to anyways.

You could play the hypothetical game all day, and what's the point when you can make up any number of unlikely situations? Also let's point out that's not what's actually happening at all.
They invested a million or so in Everything.me a few years ago for Firefox OS. I don't think they've actually acquired another company, though, or at least not any company of note.
The article addresses the finishing rites for self-publishing, but the note on tl;dr at the top should be expanded to say something like: writing a novel is the equivalent of starting a small company. It takes at least three months of focused effort to write something worthwhile for an experienced novelist, a year or ten for a novice.

Also, it might be helful to note tha the likelihood of making a living from writing is dependent on how fast an author can complete each novel.
Next step: Make a Telegram bot that you invite in a group and that posts a message whenever a group member ordered something.

The magic will be real.
Well, after a certain event last year, I have added "The cyber" to my skills and got endorsed for it. I do not need to be told they are useless.
Altera/Intel and Xilinx have FPGAs coming out this year with HBM which should make them competitive with existing GPU memory bandwidth.
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I'm not saying it's okay to proposition a coworker but I've seen several women flirt their way into favor in the office. It's happened to me a couple times, it's really confusing.

Combine that with the socially inept male dominated software environment and you can pretty much expect scandalous things to happen.
it also looks like a "multi function display" in the cockpit of an F-15, for controlling radar, weapons, etc..
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> "Tow the line", for example, or "then" when "than" would be correct.

My favorite recent malapropism, seen more and more often and in increasingly exalted locales, is "reign it in". "Reign" is what a monarch does to a kingdom, "rein" is what a cowboy does to a horse.
Google found the allegations credible and was prepared to fire him until he resigned. That seems like "guilty" to me, and certainly something you need to mention to a new employer, if only to avoid stories like this one.
> It means that you should be able to re-use (compose) interface elements, so that even a junior developer could create a great interface (UX-wise) by assembling one from parts that are made to work well together.

I don't think "compose" == "reuse" as you suggest. Reusing well-designed interface elements gets you very little in terms of usability, because the important parts of UX design - like page structure and navigation - cannot be handed to developers in ready-made toolkits.

I do agree with the second half of your comment though. Mozilla's Ubiquity project [1] is the best example I know (see [2]) of on-the-fly composability in modern GUIs. Admittedly Ubiquity is somewhat underdeveloped, but the core idea is solid, in my view.

There's also things like IFTTT, Zapier, and Slack integrations, but:

1. They involve up-front configuration, and,

2. You need to redo this configuration for every pair of apps you want to compose together, which is obviously not scalable.

[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity

[2]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Latest_Ubiquity_User_...
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No one's mentioned getting a response so far, but I'm intrigued enough to give it a try. I've sent in a question about genetic engineering.

Some notes about the process:

1. 21.co's signup form mandates an image, but the tool they use for file uploads breaks on PNGs (!) silently without any visible warning to the user (!!), you can click on the 'save' button many times with nothing happening and without any kind of error or warning in the web console (!!!), in both Firefox and Chromium with Noscript & Adblock disabled. Apparently even using an entire specialized file upload service, the second-most common image format in existence is just too exotic and confusing to support.

2. you have to confirm by email before you can do anything, which adds on another 10-15m to the process (amusingly, they spam you on signup to set up a public paid inbox - and that email arrived first, but you can't do anything unconfirmed)

3. it's not $100, it's actually $110, because 21co tacks on a $10 'service fee' (even though it's for charity). It's unclear if I have to pay this $10 regardless of whether Andreessen ever responds. I hope not. In any case this strikes me as a huge fee for such a trivial service, and I really hope it's a 10% fee rather than a fixed $10 fee...

4. the site is surprisingly slow despite being so barebones

5. browsing the interface, despite the prominence of Bitcoin, I'm not clear whether I am even allowed to deposit Bitcoin and pay that way; in any case I opted to use a credit card because the profile image bug wasted so much of my time and I was losing my patience. The cash out page indicates that should I ever earn anything via 21.co, I would need to jump through even more hoops, presumably even if I only wanted Bitcoin and not bank deposits or anything. I thought briefly about setting up a paid inbox because it's a fun concept but between a 10% (or worse) fee and all this invasiveness, I'm not interested.

6. signup form doesn't work with Lastpass, which failed to capture the username/password; always annoying to manually copy over generated passwords.

So, I'm not impressed but we'll see how it works out...

On a side note, how do people regard the expectation of privacy with these public inbox emails? I see someone has screenshotted a Horowitz response; are these responses considered 'commissioned' in a sense, rather than private emails with an expectation of privacy/confidentiality, and so it's OK to copy-paste any response publicly on HN or elsewhere?
Probably bad copy paste examples?

Or

Some people think everyone should consume charts a specific way and thus disable everything that doesn't fit that precise consumption model.
I put links on notes in Google Keep grouped in some fashion. Some overlap, but that's okay. I think I saw someone post on HN that they used Keep for that which prompted me to do it.
As my background is in recruiting (which is quite helpful in resume writing), this is well put overall. A resume writers is just trying to position you as best as possible to get in the door, whereas a recruiter typically is just trying to get everyone in the door.

The thing I like about resume writing and coaching is that it's 100% focused on helping an individual job seeker, and there are no misaligned incentives.
From the article (emphasis mine):

> “As I entered the fifteenth year of working at Google, I've been asking myself the question, ‘What would you want to do for the next fifteen?’ The answer has overwhelmingly been: Give back to others. It has always been a priority for me to give back to people who are less fortunate, and make time for my family amidst competing work constraints — but on both fronts, I simply want to give and do more,” he wrote. “Now is a good time to make this important life change.”

> But within a year, rather than do good, Singhal had gotten a top job at Uber.

There's nothing inherently "not good" with changing jobs. If anything, you get an opportunity to make more money, make a bigger impact on new projects, and bring in others that you've worked with prior to join you. The latter can markedly improve their lives as well through the same (pay bump, new work, etc).

Implying that leaving Google for Uber is inherently not "do[ing] good" is pretty slanted.
Based on my memory of how I met my wife, with the right person it is a 10.

That was, however, the first and probably last time for me. And given the context, we were both kidding ourselves as long as possible about the mutual attraction. By the time anything resembling a pass happened, it was obviously desired on both sides.

The truth is that we are human. No matter how much people try to avoid romantic entanglements at work, it happens. Regularly. And sometimes they don't work out. The challenge is how to handle that situation. And this is a difficult challenge indeed.
He said:"The point is: Thiel is completely within his rights to endorse Trump. It's not like he forfeited his humanity by doing so."

Which implies that someone was arguing the contrary.
Wrong.

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> Lecturer or speaker: If honorarium will be received, ... [list of conditions that the scholar in the article visibly meets].

It baffles my mind why multiple people in this HN thread keep suggesting that the scholar in the article didn't have an appropriate visa.
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Maybe in big government California there would be outcry.

But not in Arizona, or any other red state.

Get the federal government out of regulating it, and let the states decide.

Then, when red states save thousands of lives, the blue states will follow.
I've been using http://hnreplies.com for email notifications and it seems to be working out well.
Just calling a spade a spade. Downvote if it makes you feel better. Softer language just normalizes the administration's behaviour.

> We need to promote unity, not further divisiveness.

Yes: Unity for the Constitution and the principles it represents. Unity in recognizing the value of a free press. Unity in support of those being persecuted for no reason.

> [This] has to start with offering respect rather than insults.

When the President treats people with respect this point will have a leg to stand on. Until then, watch me not care.
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Particle is an excited state of a field.

What you are saying is the exact same thing.
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It's not a question of who started it (everyone always feels like the other person started it), but of your breaking the rules. If you continue to do that, we will ban your account.

Edit: looking at your comment history I see that you've been violating HN's rules egregiously for ages, so we've banned this account. If you don't want it to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and promise to correct this in the future.
That almost certainly isn't going to be released publicly unless there is some kind of lawsuit that happens. The only thing we know is that Google labeled it 'credible', but we have no idea how they came to that decision.
>> forced

There is no force involved; please maintain perspective. There are no debtors prisons filled with 20-something Berkeley graduates. Every penny of every student loan was voluntarily assumed by the debtors. The terms for much of this debt allow payments to be deferred based on income. The average amount of student debt being carried is typically less than the cost of a new car. We deal here with "first world problems."

>> but it never seems to happen

2008? TARP? "Great Recession"?

It clearly registers on every measure of economic activity I've seen. Rather hard to miss, really. You can have a look and the 07-08 collapse of property values over here if you missed it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_housing_bubble#/...
Low-hanging fruit. Generally, it's far easier to get rid of someone for lying ("You lied about about your reasons for leaving your previous company, it seems") than to prove novel allegations against them.
I think that after some time people will forget about this. I read an article [1] today about how the anger that a lot of people feel towards Uber right now will not be enough to push them through the discomfort of moving to smaller competitors like Lyft. it's great that Susan Fowler spoke out but it's gonna take more (a much bigger problem) to cause Kalanick to resign (or be pushed out by the board).

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/why-uber-probably-never-will-...
Being an east coaster, maybe I'm just not clear on this, but in proximity to the big tech companies, how far out are we talking for the examples discussed in this article?

Put another way: How far out does one have to live to house a family of 3 or 4 affordably with respect to a 160k salary? Lets say, hypothetically, 2000 sq ft dwelling of some kind (house, condo, rowhome), good school district, for ~$2500-3500/mo - rent or mortgage? Or if that's a ridiculous question for the Bay Area, let's say 35-40% DTI and call it $5000/mo.

Speaking anecdotally, when I lived in the DC area, it ran me ~2400/mo for my 900 sq ft rowhouse in a good zip code walkable to the metro. The problem being that a 3rd bedroom would put me north of 600k (closer to 750k today) for a home if I wanted to be in the same zip code, or move outside the beltway and commute 90 minutes. I moved... to northern new england.
I think that if Uber were to say that straight out, it would allay some of my negative feelings towards them! (And maybe they have and I missed it, I haven't had chance to follow this closely.)
Doesn't guarantee sustainability.
You clearly made the comparison between Uber's technology and the legally blind. Looking at your other comments, it seems you want to argue more than you want to have a constructive conversation. I'm exiting this thread.
I know! I often see comments that imply HN is homogenous (with the exception of the poster). There's a lot of different people that make up the HN community, which is one of its strengths, and one of the reasons I value it.
Haven't had a linkedin profile like OP for a long time. Never had any issues finding a job or getting interviews. Stackoverflow careers CV page is my resume and the contacts that come through Stackoverflow are consistently of high quality.
> There was a bang as I backed away causing the back to pop and smoke kept pouring out. It kept sizzling for a few minutes and then finally it stopped.

> The house had filled up with smoke everywhere, the acidic stench of melted plastic made my eyes water.

> After I had opened up all the windows in the house and cleared out the smoke, ...

Wrong answer. The correct answer was "leave the building and call the fire department". You really really do not want to breathe the smoke from a battery fire.
Yeah, I agree it should have been mentioned (literally my 2nd and 3rd lines)

But, this firing has the smell of being one for appearances, rather than actual culpability.

But then again, I don't know the actors so if anyone with additional info confirms that it's a fair firing, I would be happy to listen.
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I don't think they sacked him to look like they're "doing something". How could his subordinates have any confidence the culture would change when he's been accused of the exact problem behavior they're trying to fix?
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