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I'm confused. Are you saying that Guardian article is a hoax? In what way is that a publicly known fact? I did not see any retraction or correction on the link provided.

The Contraspin article is pretty fascinating and from skimming it, makes a decent case worth taking seriously, but one good case isn't a consensus; in fact, it appears to run directly contrary to the consensus. (It also has plenty of weak spots; for example, someone who's been Executive Director of the EFF for 15 years has a lot of credibility in my eyes.) By contrast, Sarah Fowler's article has been corroborated by reputable sources like the New York Times [1], who've found additional horror stories along similar lines. (To be clear, I'm operating under the assumption we're in agreement that all indications are that Sarah Fowler's story is fundamentally accurate.)

Do you have any examples where it's a thorough consensus that an anonymous testimonial was made up to hurt someone, the way, for example, there's a thorough consensus that the Rolling Stone UVA article was pretty much made up?

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/technology/uber-workplace...
For a fraction of the cost.
I can live with the fact that they are fragile. Although I think part of that fragility has been designed right in on purpose by Apple, it's still my fault for dropping the thing on the asphalt.

My problem, and the reason why I want to stop supporting Apple specifically is that my ridiculous $1000 phone has a home button that is cryptographically coupled to the device, and physically bonded to the display, in an effort to make repairs impossible.
Except today it will be done at less than 1/10th the cost. So yeah, progress.
Businesses are very risk-averse.
It's hard to justify buying a new notebook in this day and age IMO. Since 2014 hardware has been about the same with the same price point for customer notebooks..

I had a macbook air 13 from my company and would probably have kept it to this date. Since my company took it back I am using some 13' toshiba with i3 and 4gb of ram running ubuntu.. haven't seen the need to upgrade.
> weak enough gravity

Gravity will still be too high, gravity at the ISS is 0.89 times gravity on the ground and you obviously need to be lower than that. But it's definitely the closest we can get to a large scale martian atmosphere.
OK, so it's not just me imagining things.

My view is pretty much as yours: POCKET IS MY VETTED WEB. If I've saved stuff there, it's because that is shit I've already determined is worth a second look, and I want to be able to find it again.

Increasingly, when I hit my Pocket archive (3k-4k+ items, top 1% user), I find that I cannot find what I'm looking for. This negates approximately 80% of the purpose of having Pocket in the first place, and I've been giving strong thoughts to simply using it as a link dump until I can figure out how to:

1. Download the content myself.

2. Download the tags, which are the most important element.

3. Get the simplified-Web view. Web design isn't the solution, Web design is the problem.

4. Be able to search and filter specifically what I've already fetched. And filter by more options: date, website, author, tags (positive and negative filters), etc.

None of that currently exists. And it is increasingly frustrating.
It's remarkable that "global warming" didn't make the list given its potential for $trillions in damages and vast loss of life if left unchecked. In terms of severity, there is no second place.
Yes, in hindsight I would have done more of a monolith datastore with fewer services. Faraday for auth was amazing - we could put anything we wanted behind it and centralize authentication/authorization. I liked how configurable Kubernetes was for everything from secrets to environments . Managing service discovery errors was annoying. Monorepo was a big win - I would always do this in the future.
Why Ontologies?
If you love tinkering, Hackintosh is certainly full of fun projects.
It was pretty raw. We didn't have many full-time people concentrating on it by the end - lots of contractors. We needed to spend a lot more time on tooling.
Also happens if you use Tor or are behind a VPN.
but doesn't that mean firing up all sensors again, screen and other hardware required to display or perform the said warning, which will ofcourse create burden for the main battery again? I don't think CMOS/BIOS battery can be used for that task.
And I don't understand why only Apple has to do everything, it's not like only Macs are known to burn. User must have minimum knowledge on laptop over-heating.
Yes, and we had a bunch of issues getting javascript to work with Bazel. We didn't realize that our components would be split up. Caused a lot of problems and needed a rewrite.
This at least means that the developer is aware that these parts of the spec are extensible, and by explicitly ignoring the GREASE values are explicitly choosing to potentially have a broken application in the future. This is a different class of problems than developers who weren't aware certain fields were extensible.
"Why is this being modded down? It's the truth."

Since when has the truth been popular, or well received when it wasn't also what people wanted to hear?
Switched to a beastly 17" Dell Precision 7710 running Fedora 25. It's not small, very powerful, carbon fiber, holds 2-3 drives including the primary NVMe and I can load up to 64GB of RAM.

The best part though...I can open up the bottom and replace parts anytime I want.

Need to switch to an Android phone next because iTunes doesn't play nice on Linux.
Thought about switching to Surface Book and using Scoop as a colleague mentioned it to me, but decided to get the new MBP 2016 w/ Touchbar after using a Macbook Air 2012.

Touchbar is great, don't know why people are complaining.
Depth + breath is another way of saying experience. Program long enough and you'll learn all sorts of little nasty things about garbage collection and permissions and tcp packet headers and faulty JSON parsers. All of it crystalizes into those little moments when you think "I've seen this shit before".
My stack ranking story:
I was a manager. I was asked to build a team top performers. More than asked: My bonus would be based on the quality of the team.
Now, the team is in place, and it's time for for the first set of reviews. The average is 9/10. Of course they really are that good - I followed orders and built a team of top performers.
But... we have stack ranking. My meta-manager told me that the average had to be 5. My response: What? You're telling me to lower my own bonus! Yes, exactly, he explained, you just figured out why we have stack ranking.
Since 2014 the hardware has been more than adequate for 90% of the people that buy those sorts of machines. There's also not a lot of room for improvement since the i5/i7 from 2014 and the i5/i7 from 2017 aren't dramatically different.

> I am using some 13' toshiba with i3 and 4gb of ram...

You're complaining about the hardware not being better and you're using a super low-end laptop. Maybe your real complaint is price, not performance, as you can get machines like that for $200 if you're not concerned about anything other than cost.
While there was a secondary issue with the deployment regarding unofficial builds/derivatives, the field trial was primarily rolled back due to the number of affected customers due to the middle-box issues in their enterprise/edu networks.
>>I disagree that anonymous, unverifiable grievances impose on otherwise ethical and rational people a positive obligation of specific personal demand for belief or compassion.

Amy's specific experiences may or may not be verifiable. I believe you are missing the point though. This isn't about Amy herself. If it were, she would have come out publicly, like Susan has. I suspect the reason Amy posted her story anonymously is because it is about the treatment women in general receive at Uber. That's what makes her story credible: we have heard from multiple sources so far that the atmosphere at Uber is extremely hostile to women.

Here's an example why anonymity is important: law enforcement agencies receive anonymous tips all the time. One way they decide whether to follow up on a tip is by looking at surrounding factors. For instance, if multiple anonymous tips within a short period of time suggest that Bob may be involved in child trafficking, that is in most cases sufficient to earn Bob a police raid.

Same thing with Amy's story. By itself, it is full of extraordinary claims. In light of everything we have learned about Uber's company culture though, the claims are both ordinary and credible.

Is there a chance that it was written by a rival company's astroturfers? Sure. Just like how Bob may actually have been a target of swatting[1]. But law enforcement agencies still have an obligation to investigate the anonymous tips against Bob, just like we as the public have an obligation to offer belief or compassion to stories like Amy's.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting
"Right" is usually a matter of opinion in IT. In my experience IT professionals often have passionate opinions on the right technical approach which aren't based on any actual hard data and fail to account for critical business issues. So just giving people intellectual freedom is unlikely to produce good results in the long run; there has to be a structure and process in place to prevent serious problems.
Most background checks only look at criminal records. So something that is conducted privately would not even show up.

Anyways, like many others I feel like this guy is just a scapegoat considering the fact that he has only been at Uber for a month. On the other hand, what is Uber supposed to do here? They found out somehow that Google has done an internal investigation that he has been accused of sexual harassment before. If they do not ask him to resign, people would be outside with their pitchforks knowing that they have a possible sexual offender working for them.
I don't even know where to begin debugging. My browser just locks up and has to be killed. Usually before the page with the REPL even starts rendering.

Weird.
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"My iPhone has a broken screen that can't be fixed without permanently losing the finger print scanner"

That's not true in my experience. Unless the actual button/scanner is broken (unlikely) you can transplant it to a new screen without too much trouble.

Source: I've changed a couple of screens for friends and family.

Edit:

Here's a repair guide that includes the home button transplant.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+7+Display+Assembly+Repla...
The website that goes along with the book https://www.amazon.com/Traction-Startup-Achieve-Explosive-Cu...
I always find myself trying readline shortcuts in my browser. Control + w and my tab closes. Grr.
Look at North Africa and the Middle East... so much of the conflict now is driven at least in part by climate change. Where there's desperation for water and food, troubles that might have been just below the surface explode. Climate change isn't just sea levels rising, it's changing climates; some places with desert will green, some green places will turn to desert.

It's already started.
Yes, it was a rush job. It started off nice, with tests and stuff. Then, we had to hit a deadline. I wrote 100% of the backend code. There were no other authors. Getting tons of functionality written without time to go back and refactor or improve as I improved my knowledge sucked, plus there were a lot of other non-code responsibilities at the time. If I had time, I would have spent a lot more time improving this code. For instance, I discovered gRPC interceptors way too late :-)

I recently started contributing to Buffalo, the Go web library by Mark Bates, and it addresses a lot of the issues we had, such as managing webpack for development environments.

Fun fact: I wrote a quick scraper in Go to relearn it before jumping in to the V2, and Francesc from Google did a code review of it for the first "Just For Func" episode. That made me realize just how much I had to improve my Go code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIWFnNz8mF4&t=2s
I had long been weary of juggling VMWare guests' RAM consumption on my MacBook Pro, but I held out for a modern system with more RAM (whether MacBook Pro or updated Mac Pro), until the most recent refresh. Two months ago, I purchased a Linux workstation with a modest 128 GiB RAM, and have barely touched my laptop since.

In 2005, I bought a quad-core Opteron workstation with 16 GiB RAM. That Apple wouldn't offer anything substantially more powerful in a laptop form factor a dozen years later boggles the mind. Granted, my use case may be atypical (lots of jemalloc portability development/testing), but between the anemic hardware options and the de-emphasis of developer products, I'm sufficiently disenfranchised at this point that even after working at Apple on the operating system (~10.1-10.4 range) and then using it ever since, I'm not personally interested anymore in what Apple does next.
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Being the first to land on the moon was never intended to be cheap. So many things had to be invented simply to get there.

Just imagine how economical space flight would be if all of that 1960s technology had been incrementally improved on for efficiency, manufacturing ease, and scale instead of a lot of it being almost literallly mothballed.
It doesn't feel that way anymore.
You don’t need a new laptop. If you own a MacBook Pro Retina, 2013 (or beyond), then you have all the computing power you need. Why waste the money, why contribute to e-waste?
I feel like you didn't really read my post. You don't fire somebody the first, or even second, time they mess up. There are plenty of people at plenty of companies that /should/ be fired, but have not yet because you generally don't fire somebody without overwhelming evidence. This is not a problem exclusive to Uber.

Despite the fact I pretty clearly explained the problem, you still read into it the way you wanted the narrative to be read.
For anyone that wonders what the hell is the loading bar that is on top of the page, it loads the data for graphs at the bottom of the page.

I was semi-worried that my computer will explode when it is loaded. It takes so long and gives no visual feedback what it is loading. I would either put that near graph or better just use a static image
I'm pretty sure my coding productivity would be a little higher on Linux, but there's no way I'm going to give up the nice polished UI applications I get on OS X and the near-universal ability to shift seamlessly between desktop and mobile. I feel some kind of weird prepper compulsion to regularly think about how I would do the transition back to Linux, but I really don't relish the thought of going back to being my own personal integration engineer and sinking my time into disappointing "___ equivalent" Linux applications.
Then the board should remove him, and his lieutenant Emil Michael who threatened to stalk journalists.
Doh. S-32 + n -> P-32 + p

And then P-32 decays back to S-32 with ~14 day half-life.

I wonder if people are working on this. It'd be a minor tweak to nuclear weapons models.
"Your only recourse is whether to associate or disassociate with somebody."

Might I suggest disassociating yourself from the federal government by learning the difference between state citizenship and federal citizenship and take appropriate action.

More info here:

http://famguardian.org/Subjects/Taxes/taxes.htm#CITIZENSHIP
If this was a science post that had no evidence, everyone here would be shooting it down. Something about a tawdry narrative though seems to instantly be believed.

My first thought was that someone has launched an all out PR attack against Uber. There are hundreds of comments here going after Uber. This was an anonymous post and could be totally fake.
Because I would not be writing a new story about Tinkerbell, I would be trying to convey the idea that Hydrogen is "tiny and hot tempered", just like Tinkerbell, while Helium is "quite small, but not as tiny as Hydrogen, and very peaceful and self reliant"... just like Master Yoda.

Of course I could use GenericFairy#274, or MidgetZenMaster (my appologies to any Little People reading this, but I am not going to risk to use the word Dwarf and jump from Disney's frying pan into Tolkien's firestove), but that kind of defies to purpose of using visual imagery the kids already are familiar with.

Call me a sore looser, but I am not particularly happy with Disney having called dibs on the human herritage of the last 3,000 years and claim it was their own purpose. The only original work from old Walt was their horrible looking antropomorphic animals, everything else was taken from the public domain, repackaged, and ear marked as their own.
The sad fact is that they kind of are the exception to that rule. Kind of. They actually need to test to develop their weapons, and they want the weapons to ensure continuity of their regime, but also to sell the tech (probably). It's a pretty evil/batshit thing to be doing I grant you, but... if they want nukes despite that, they at least need to test.

The crazy bastards.
They actually have 120,000. ("Upwards of 50,000 (out of 120,000) Chromebooks have updated to OS56.")

They also have 46,000 PCs. So yeah - pretty decent size...
As a person who has lived in China for nearly a decade, I have experienced racism first hand there. But actually it was, 99% of the time, racism that favored my white skin. Wherever I (or any other white foreigner I know) went, I had instant respect and was admired, without having to do anything to earn that respect. Why does the article, which seems well-researched, not mention this phenomenon at all?

(Or maybe I've missed it, I've only read the summary and a few paragraphs that contained the term "white")
> the end I don't want to have
> a setup that I constantly
> have to spend time on just
> to keep it alive

It's admittedly been about 5 years since I seriously tried to use Linux on the desktop, and a little longer than that since Windows, but the biggest concession I've made to keeping my OS X machine alive is a `bluetooth_reload` alias. Is XF86Config still a thing? How about audio support?
The source is also plain C. Id/Carmack didn't switch to C++ until Doom 3.
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The moment those drones are given a degree of discretion in target selection, yes.
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At this scale of awfulness and given how much cash Uber has, I imagine some very good employment lawyers are going to be shaking the bushes looking for as many plaintiffs as they can find, and wouldn't think of charging them to participate.
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Yes. Protocol buffers and grpc-gateway made it easy to scaffold out a quick api, write all the interior logic, and know that there would not be any major issues due to strong typing. We used Gogoproto to annotate the protobuf files so that database crud is easy too.
Agreed. Trump and America in recent years are doing major damage to USA's soft-power advantages over China with respects to racism and racial equality:

> Fourth, the message of the United States should be: We are better than the Chinese for Africa. We will assist you with economic aid to offset what you receive from China. In sum, culturally, socially, and politically, the United States is better, citizens are equal, racial equality, and civil rights are recognized.
It's really not "guilty until proven innocent". Nobody has gone to prison, much less been charged with a criminal offense. The article doesn't name anyone in particular, so even if harassment accusations ruined mens' careers (which is a comically untrue assertion in the first place), that argument holds no water. Sexism is real, harassment is real, and demanding some arbitrarily high standard of evidence before you believe it is at best obtuse and at worst deliberately complicit.
I find it both sad and funny that the apparent reaction to "web developers aren't real developers" idea was for (particularly front end) web developers to create ever more complex tool chains and runtime environments, that always end up being more fragile and pedantic than whatever they replaced.
I remember when Singhal's hiring was discussed here on HN last month. People wondered what would attract Singhal to Uber. Now we know: the company culture.
Yes, they have threatened to dig up dirt on reporters and have even hired former CIA agents to go after information on someone who is suing them.
Something human-sized and untethered which is capable of lifting a 40kg load and running with it? It's not going to replace a container crane but (as you mention) it'd be a very versatile warehouse bot.
Quite the opposite, I would think. Not having employment, seeing economy going down the drain is a lot more and immediately existential to people than not liking the people in Washington, or disagreeing with how they tweet and so on.

One can argue that government is eventually to blame for employment anyway, but is one step removed from "I might not be able to pay my bills in a month or two".

In a way I am happy to see "Dissatisfaction with the government" be the top worry pushing economy to the side.
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I had a similar experience at a previous company I worked at, and a similar reaction. When people heaped criticism on them for sexism I essentially said "no way, I've never seen any of that, this is outrageous, you're slandering the good guys".

Well, as it turns out, they weren't. A female engineer I knew in passing wound up writing an essay similar to this one describing her horrible treatment at the hands of one of her coworkers and HR. I was shocked, but I also knew her well enough to know that she wouldn't make up something like that. She shared that story as her goodbye email from the company.

Even now, I'm baffled and angry about the response the company made. I don't know why it was handled that way, and I don't know why her coworker acted so wretchedly. It boils my blood, and mixed in with that and the bewilderment is a certain sense of shame that I had misplaced my trust so badly.

Anyways, I guess all of that is just a long way of saying that I hear where you're coming from and hope your experience ends better than mine did.
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That's not from Howl's Moving Castle. (Clue: The link.)
It's Monday but if I have think of a non sci-fi short story for a lovely Sunday, it will have to be anything from Eggs, Beans and Crumpets by P.G.Wodehouse for me.
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Heh, last time I missed the piece flying off the robot as it landed the jump. I wonder what broke?
I recently got a Surface Pro after two cycles (~7 years) of MBP 15 inchers. I wanted something lightweight I could draw on, and did think about the iPad Pro with Pencil for a while, but in the end having the flexibility to install any app won out (currently I'm using Aseprite and Manga Studio).

I've been using both Mac and Windows OSes since the last millennium, so I'm not precious about either one. But I do personally prefer explorer over finder in most aspects.

Visual Studio is a beast, and it's absolutely ridiculous that MS now give away so many features for free in the community version.

I had no expectations for the type cover keyboard, but it turns out it is fantastically comfortable and productive.

I have no plans to get a new Mac, but my 2014 MBP is still proving useful to do remote iOS builds from Xamarin. I'll probably keep it around just for that but if I never have to open Xcode again it will be too soon.
Which is relevant how?
They're losing their Yahoo search money in the future and need to make it up somehow.