skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had some failed deploys due to usability issues. We also felt like we were starting to converge to the same set of features similar to a bunch of other companies (Homebase, WhenIWork, Humanity/Shiftplanning, Deputy, etc). We decided that we needed to do a lot more user research in order to understand customer needs, and others' products. (We also started to realize that, to do algorithmic scheduling, we would need a portfolio of algorithms - not a generic one - which was a tough job for a two-engineer team).

Partly, we decided to try to just focus on a great scheduling experience rather than build lots of features quickly. So, the SMS came out of the user research and a need in the market.

Our strategy was going to be integrations. We had a slew of API integrations lined up for POS, payroll, and other providers.
> One was a ground incident that wouldn't have had people nearby even with a manned mission, and the other would have saved its passengers with the abort system.

Not sure how that would mitigate the risk of explody Space-X rockets?
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I don't get this. You don't know anything about working at Uber except secondhand accounts. Where do you get off dictating morals to me? You don't think I'm a person that stands up for what's right?

You know nothing about what I'm doing, who I am, or anything about working at Uber except the worst of the worst. Yet here you are acting condescending, because you've read a bunch of newspaper articles you're morally superior.

I tremendously resent comments like yours. I hope you consider how offensive your comments are.
> his office made dealing with civil rights a priority, which meant that the costs of prioritizing civil rights suddenly drew more attention than when it was a backburner issue.

I've been wondering about that. What did he do specifically for the Black community who pretty much voted as a block for him. Are they able to get access to jobs, housing, education because of him. Do kids feels safer walking home from school? I don't really now, I am not asking because I know it is not, just curious if anyone has a better idea.
Oscar envelope flub could hurt PwC’s brand reputation for accuracy
I'd fire someone if they'd been a harasser in the past, even if my image was already impeccable. As much as this move seems to be about improving image, it doesn't need to be (I mean: that's not the only good reason to fire someone who concealed past sexual harassment allegations).
Lots of answers about apples-to-applesness, and such, but from a very practical viewpoint, the "said activities" part of "participating in said activities" is hard to define and measure. Should you condition on swimming, swimming in the ocean, swimming in the ocean in california, swimming in the ocean in the Santa Cruz area, or swimming in the ocean at Año Nuevo (or even some part of that beach)? However you decide to break it down, do you even have that data? In stats, lots of questions begin and end with "do you have data on that?"
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> The compiler is part of the IDE, not some external process that needs to start from a blank state for each file, needing to read the same files over and over...

I suspect the difference is negligible in practice. In both cases, the files are likely to be cached in memory after they're read the first time, so you're not really reading it over and over.
>He told his entire team, "Tell me how much money you want. I will tell you what you need to accomplish to get it."

This is my dream manager. I've never had a manager ask what they could do for me and actually mean it.
An examination of all current and historical implementations of capitalism quickly leads to the conclusion that all capitalism eventually becomes "crony capitalism", and playing the "no true scotsman" game with regards to capitalism does not demonstrate anything meaningful.
> Chinese are racist because we have very limited experience with other, non-East Asian cultures.

I disagree with the assertion that Chinese are racist. You will never see a restaurant in China that says "No ---- and dogs" except in early 20th century Shanghai. I agree that Chinese are usually less sensitive about racial topics. They will carelessly call a foreigner "洋鬼子", but that's as bad as "Yankee" goes IMHO.

I've heard that in US Chinese guys usually date Chinese girls. But really can we blame that they are racists?

> When it comes to history, Chinese people again suffer from the box-syndrome - many are proud and fervently study Chinese history, and thus barely scrape the surface of world history.

Disagree again. If you really study Chinese history, you won't find much pride there.
Hindi and related languages have the same thing. Lakh is 100k. Crore is 100 lakh.
It's overengineered for today. The datastore should have been a monolith. However, splitting up accounts and companies made us think in terms of microservices. We were prepared to add a bunch of other messaging services on the backend behind bot, so I think that architecture was forward looking. Faraday was my favorite piece of software there.
Haha - I remember creating many games in Turbo Pascal etc. which used internal loops rather than the PC clock to time things like movement and speed.

Experienced the same thing when PC's came out with the 'Turbo' button. I recall having to turn off Turbo many times to make games semi playable again on new PCs.
Ugh, I don't think it's worth force pushing to erase. I pushed a commit to remove them, though. Thanks.
Thanks, this is pretty much exactly what I'm going through, especially because I personally know Susan. It is outrageous to hear what has happened to her, and has affected me quite personally.
Hurray for reproducability - we can still do what was last done in 1972 - this is something which eludes most scientists!
If history offers any clues, Ellison might be taking a look at mr Singhal right about now.
I really enjoyed that episode :)

Curious, since it was just you writing the backend, what was the reasoning behind doing microservices + react SPA. Both of those require a lot of commitment, and coordination. Microservices especially are something I'd be more likely to consider with a very large team/many teams instead of a single developer.

Would you choose a microservice architecture again?
You're not doing the math right. You're comparing the cost to install capacity versus the cost of sustaining it.

How many jobs are there in the US for making coal-fired power plants?

How many jobs are there in the us for mining sunlight for use on solar panels?
- https://www.functionalgeekery.com/

- http://www.fullstackradio.com/

- http://5by5.tv/rubyonrails

- https://devchat.tv/
I'd never thought about it before, but Gujarati has the same issue. The word for 21 is pronounced like one-twenty.
The author is mistaken about the side channel existing. In the most common case of login and token generation it just doesn't.

With logins you compare the hashed password to a stored hash. The author mentions that you can tell how much of the hashes match because the compare function exits early if they do. This might be true, but it doesn't give you anything.

When using a secure hash function with a salt, the attacker being able to guess how much of the two hashes match gives him no information because:

1) he doesn't know what hash is stored
2) he doesn't know what his password attempt hashed to
3) he doesn't know the salt

The only thing that the attacker knows is that he created a hash with his attempt that matches the first few bytes of the real hash. If you use a strong hashing algorithm this is useless information and will happen at random.
I think this is a cause of individualism in society today and the lack of proper debate as it was intended. The effects of this are as you say. People are forming their own realities and picking bits and pieces of the truth from wherever they frequent for their news and discarding anything that they don't agree with. That in turn is spewed out in many different forms which will eventually spread its way into society. The effect is only amplified by everyone being always connected and able to share their thoughts. I think this is one of the more pressing issues we deal with as a society today.
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+1 for searching and filtering. I use Bookmark OS for this. It's more desktop oriented but the sorting and visual nature really helps me browse what I've already bookmarked. https://bookmarkos.com
Borges

All of them.

But one of my favorites: A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874)
If you want jobs, there's an enormous amount of potential employment in converting to solar. There's likely to be two or three rounds of build-out before the panels are "good enough" and stabilize in some roughly fixed form, so there may be generations of work ahead.

At some point people will have installed capacity that only needs minor maintenance and these jobs can shift to other sectors.
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How I fell in love with AWS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13747414
From another and latest whistleblower story "I'm an Uber Survivor"...

The HR team was known to be deftly afraid of Travis’s tendency to blame and ridicule the women and yell at HR whenever they went in with complaints of abuse. I heard about Travis personally congratulating Mike#2 for meeting strict deadlines months after I complained to HR about my abuse. It was clear to me that the regressive and abusive attitude towards female employees was trickling down from the top.

https://medium.com/@amyvertino/my-name-is-not-amy-i-am-an-ub...
Just because you don't think someone should be fired without "overwhelming evidence" (California is at-will, of course you can fire someone for being a massive jackass that makes/made sexist comments), doesn't mean your anecdote doesn't corroborate the sentiments of this article. Despite the fact that you felt like you dealt with the situation, it still shows that this type of thing happens at Uber, even in "your corner of the company", and that it likely happens more than you know -- when you aren't around, around others who are less likely to speak up, etc.
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Maybe solar won't matter because the sky is always black, but hey, there's enough nuclear material floating around in the atmosphere you can generate power from the radioactive heat coming out of your air filration unit!
It's not totally secure, but why not just a physical button that enables a bluetooth device that transfers a token?

I think you could even have a BT pin, so it would require a little security (eg, neighbors don't have your pin). It should be relatively straightforward to have a BT profile for "token authority".

It certainly would be reasonably easy to use on most devices: just press button and connect to the token device.
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> It's easy to be practical about other people's problems.
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A surprising amount of stuff still relies on - or quite recently relied on what they call "inertial navigation systems" (INS for short).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system

I work in aviation and it's still used as a fallback and to compare radio-based equipment with in some cases. Full GPS transitions in aviation are still just getting off the ground in most places.
>They really dont see disconnection with reality as a problem

This is a misrepresentation. They don't see it as a disconnect with reality, they see it as reality. Through all sorts of biases and rationalizations, people will still think their model of reality is true with lots of exceptions that keep getting in the way.

Once you take a belief to be true, you will go through incredible mental gymnastics to explain away any conflicting evidence without even realizing it.
Maybe also audio (binaural), haptic feedback and eyetracking (foveated rendering) could be included.
We are sharing your sentiment that a lot of our user-facing errors could be limited by moving away from weak typing (current stack is Ruby). In hindsight, did Go and protobuf prove well, we are evaluating Go and possible Elixir as a sweet spot between static and dynamic typing.
Question, does Sylpheed have a calendar like Outlook or Thunderbird+Lightning?
I didn't see any buzzwords or liberal talking points in this article. Could you provide specifics ? This article feels exactly as it would be written by a scared and angry person. Not everyone is cool,(as in calm headed) brilliant and courageous as Fowler. Fowler had the smarts, strength and level headedness to keep proof and you get the strong feeling that she has kept more proof hidden and ready to use as ammunition . I suspect she would make a very good troop leader if she had ever joined the military - her writing gives the vibe of an very strong willed woman. But expecting most folks (whether women or men) to be like her and track all facts and evidence in a personal crisis situation is expecting too much of anybody.
I am aware of sexism in my field but the characters in article sound like bullshit to me. It is like all the evil characters from soap operas work at Uber now.

team members referred to a new Asian American recruit as slanty eye joe

seriously?

“You know what heels do don’t you?” he smirked while placing his hands on his behind so as to suggest that they make them look bigger. He then patted on my shoulder and squeezed it before walking away

I am rolling my eyes now.

I can accept a few person in a big company is that racist/sexist, but whole company is like that or overlooks this stuff?

edit: to clarify, "I can accept" is used as "I find it possible". I am not saying it is keep such parties at a company. English is not my main language and I worded this very poorly
Moving Git past SHA-1
A representative democracy is still a democracy.
Your assumption is 1) You currently return an ROI to a company plus 2) motivation/interest makes you a good bet. 3) You alone make a complete business.

These dont have to combine in that way. Points;

1) there can be significant dead weight in larger salaried roles. Salary existing doesn't always equate positive ROI. And someone one can be very good employee in a structured enviroment and not in a more open startup enviroment.

2) motivation doesn't equate success, sometimes the opposite as people pursue the interesting vs the economically realistic.

3) As a salaried person you come as a team. You alone are likely to be missing required parts for a functioning business, kinda like buying tires and wondering why the car doesn't run.
So your landlord is losing money by renting it to you? This doesn't make any sense to me...
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The CEO of my previous company called Travis an asshole. It was pretty funny at the time, but now not so much.
>(California is at-will, of course you can fire someone for being a massive jackass that makes/made sexist comments)

There are more considerations like whether you're willing to pay unemployment, or open yourself up to a lawsuit depending on the circumstances.
XF86Config is now Xorg and is only used in the rare cases (dealing with proprietary drivers or strange configurations, mostly) where you want to override the defaults. Most people don't have an Xorg.conf file anymore.

For all that people complain about pulseaudio, it's been working pretty well for me for the last 5 years or so.

I'll admit I'm a bit of an outlier, though: I run xubuntu as my base system but i3 as my main window manager. I'm sooo much more productive on it than anything else I've ever used - it's amazing how much time I used to spend adjusting window sizes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13741746
I guess if you literally don't care what job you get, you could pick up a new one insanely fast. If you're targeting a handful of companies, or a better role than you have, I don't think the market is as rosy as you describe.
I have no idea what the allegations made against Singhal are, or whether there is any veracity to them, but I do know that if we treat allegations as a guilty verdict, then allegations, whether honest or not, become an extremely powerful, career ending strike against someone.

I understand why Uber would drop him, even if just for PR purposes, but I'm curious why a forum which is so concerned with upholding of classic American values(as discussed during the recent Trump EO banning certain people from certain states) would be willing to dismiss another American virtue: innocent until proven guilty.
When connecting a corporate device to any non-corporate network (including the employee wifi) you can't go anywhere until the vpn is connected. The vpn routes you through all the same inspection points as being on premise.
I'm repeating what the repair guys told me. I'll look into it, but from what I've been told, I managed to break the whole assembly.
I don't think that comparison is fair and the article reads to me like it is focused primarily on large commercial installations which would be comparable to coal power plants.

Having said that I think it would be fair to count home installations anyway. If we are talking about the job creating benefits of power generation methods then we should talk about jobs per installed Megawatt both in terms of initial roll out and ongoing maintenance.

There is no option to use coal generators at home, although I believe coal heat was not uncommon in the last century. If such a thing was common today then "residential coal boiler worker" could also be counted as part of the coal industry. Coal is not a technology that lends itself well to home installation and so there are fewer people involved in it.

One of the benefits of solar is that it can be installed on individual homes and this will necessarily employ more people to support all the individual installations.
This plus 1000. Look what happened with Amit Singhal.

http://www.recode.net/2017/2/27/14745360/amit-singhal-google...
> You will never see a restaurant in China that says "No ---- and dogs" except in early 20th century Shanghai

Very poorly chosen example, because "No Japanese and dogs" signs are incredibly common across China. [1][2][3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Japanese_sentiment_in_Chi...

[2] http://beijingcream.com/2013/02/no-dogs-but-also-no-japanese...

[3] http://chinahopelive.net/2012/09/17/japanese-and-dog-no-near...

> They will carelessly call a foreigner "洋鬼子", but that's as bad as "Yankee" goes IMHO.

"洋鬼子" literally means "foreign devil". Are you serious?
> the lack of gravity makes it hard to pump fuel

Evidently this problem is solved, because liquid fuel rockets have been working fine in space since the 60s. (Liquid fuel rockets have their propellants pumped into the chamber.)

> nominal bleed off from warming

Launch the tanker just beforehand. There won't be time for the fuel to bleed off.
Global warming is a lie
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Where do they get this stuff? Having a Coke is nothing at all like any of the adverse life events I have suffered through! So it must be a real stealth effect, then, I guess.
I've stood up for other people before and I can tell you that most of the time it doesn't lead to a happy ending.
It can't be that Singhal's life has just ended. Everyone is more than their worst moments. Everyone deserves a second chance. The guy did a complete rewrite of Google's search engine... he made Google what it is today. The guy deserves to use his talents somewhere. I hope he gets the help he needs and moves on with his life peacefully.
I was talking about Hackintosh actually, but it's true: I have the same reservations about the Linux desktop.
I suspect one of the causes of this is that it's so incredibly easy now to find articles in the Internet that support your viewpoints that can then be shared rapidly amongst your filter bubble.

It used to be the case that there was a non negligible barrier to get an idea published and in front of the eyes of millions of people. You had to find a publisher, pay for publication, and then convince stores to carry a book/magazine/whatever.

With the Internet, you can put up a blog post and share it on Facebook with a budget of $0 (or bus fare to the library).

It's just as simple to find websites that support a view of the moon landing not happening as it is to find websites that do. Both are just a Google search away.
Sample weird behavior from Discord:

Make the window too small and the buttons overlap in the titlebar. I didn't even pick an extremely small size or anything, this was about half my screen width on my Macbook. But this is the kind of thing that making a proper native app forces you to think about, but that making an Electron app often doesn't.

http://i.imgur.com/MOaESLC.png

I can pretty much tell within a minute of starting an Electron app because things just don't feel right no matter what the app is. Sibling mememachine is also pretty accurate - Discord is very oversized like many other Electron apps.

Not using native platform widgets is also incredibly noticable. Every time you're not using native platform buttons or menus it's so easy to tell, it feels weirdly slow, has excessive gaudy animations, the spacing is wrong, text size is wrong, etc. That's not to say that it can't be done right just that you're on an existing platform and that consistency is key.
>It's ineffective against insider exfiltration of data unless you're also doing body cavity searches for USB sticks, and if you're at that point then the sensitive network should not be connected to the internet at all.

We opted to disable usb mass storage since cavity searches seemed a little much
Why go with an inferior language when you could use C# or C++ instead?

Like JS is well and good for web things but no reason to shove things where they don't belong.
The search plugin feature is an open standard. Anyone can create their own search engine and plugin for it.
I'm less concerned about privacy, although still concerned about that, than I am about the Brazil principle here. The sorts of people that end up in these border security jobs are, if nothing else, very good at "following orders" and if the computer says someone's a target who are they to think otherwise?

Will they arrest a five year old child with the same name as someone who's identified as a terrorist mastermind wanted for bombings in the 1980s? I'd bet money they would! Will someone be arrested for looking like Osama Bin Ladin because for some reason he's still in the database? Undoubtedly.

They'll be rounding up people that simply look like other people, or by people mis-identified due to software bugs or broken, badly implemented features. What if all people who have really dark skin are classified as an immediate threat because of a single entry in the database that caused the identifier to over-fit for a particular set of inputs?

The failure rate on this is bound to be high. Even a 99.9% accurate system is going to identify nearly a million people as threats if there's 900 million trips per year, which is a typical year in the US. If it's 99.8% or 99.5% the numbers grow to the level of pure absurdity.