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> What if she was the only Jainist in the group, would it be religious discrimination?

If it had to do with her religious practices, yes. If she was singled out for no other given reason and she was the only one and the decision maker had made comments on her protected class status related to it... yes (if it walks like a duck...)

> E.g. if I'm overweight

Not a protected class without a medical note classifying it as a disability. Bad example.

The better example would be a Hijab (religiously protected class, distracting clothing), which yes, she has a right to wear as long as it doesn't directly interfere with her work (e.g. assembly line or something); just saying it is distracting does not count.

Notably, sleeveless clothing is not a fireable piece of clothing unless it is for everyone. And since it seems exceedingly unlikely that this manager is saying the same thing to her male employees (especially as the male employees are joking about it, it seems likely they would have told her), it is sexist discrimination.

> It could also be jealousy, unrelated to sex.

Except no, it was pretty clear it would have to be related to her being female if that was the case (because unless the guy was bi-sexual, it's unlikely she would be getting jealous at a male coworker doing the same thing).

> Everyone's assumption might be right, given Uber's culture. But this story isn't really conclusive by itself. Now if there were many female engineers with a lot of diversity among them under this manager, and only female engineers were banned from some work environments, then that'd be stronger evidence of sexism.

Yes, but we don't have many female engineers (~15%) to ask. And many of them report sexism quite often when leaving the field entirely. Seems a bit of a chicken and an egg if it wasn't for the fact that both the chicken and the egg are very clear about the problem when asked.

You are right. It may not be sexism. And just a shitty manager. Even so, parts of it seem like they could be sexist. She is calling it sexist. And it is representative of a shitty culture either way. And the sexism charge could have been avoided by simply having better management practices. It's almost like if you don't protect your employees bad things (like sexism, racism, etc.) can happen.
After we agree on a universal set of principles and how/who/when to enforce them. So never.
> If you've got Uber on your CV I would not hire you, no matter how talented you are. No talent is worth the risk of poisoning the team and potentially driving out my other talents.

Or perhaps 90% of the Uber folks just simply force to stay because they are bound by immigration, etc. I don't think "will never hire X from Y because of poisoning Z" will always stand.

I have heard that from many individual said similar comments such as "will not hire from Amazon, will not hire from FB, will not hire from MSFT", but as the company grows, you don't even got that choice. Because recruiters will find them and will get them in. Can you say that to every hire you made in a company with the size of 10000+ ?
That's odd. IEEE 754 requires that basic operations produce the closest possible result to the exact answer. (Those operations are simple arithmetic, square roots, remainders, rounding, and various format conversions.) As long as the rounding mode is the same on all machines, they should all give identical results for something like addition unless you're using hardware that doesn't do IEEE 754.

You will, of course, run into huge trouble if you perform more complex operations. All bets are off once you start doing things like trigonometry or logarithms, unless you implement it yourself.
I suspect a lot of the leftists that support abolishing borders would not like the consequences of such a policy.

Really, quite a lot of them tend to sustain their lives on tax-funded sources. It would be fun to watch them panic and starve though ;)
Got it from this thread 7 years ago (!) http://www.camaro5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31235
I started caring a lot more when I started selling things. It's a substantial amount of money that I'm not getting because people don't want to take out cash. But I have to accept it because I'd make even less money if I was cash-only.
It took me about 8 paragraphs in to figure out what Greyball is, so to save you the time: Uber used various data sources to identify which people are likely government officials who are trying to collect incriminating data on them, and then blocks them from the service so they can't be caught in sting operations.

But there's a lot in the article that doesn't make sense:

>Other techniques included looking at the user’s credit card information and whether that card was tied directly to an institution like a police credit union.

I couldn't find a good source, but it doesn't seem like that's something a CC merchant would have access to. Do they really get to see that?[2]

Also, how were they able to do it so accurately without disrupting their service? Most city employees and police aren't going to be involved in sting operations against car services, so their customer support will have to deal with a torrent of very confused government employees [1] who keep getting mysterious rejections when they try to use they app, and which support can't give a truthful answer on.

Plus, this seemed to require significant on-the-ground intel and human intervention:

>If those clues were not enough to confirm a user’s identity, Uber employees would search social media profiles and other available information online. Once a user was identified as law enforcement, Uber Greyballed him or her, tagging the user with a small piece of code that read Greyball followed by a string of numbers.

So, I'm surprised it worked at all.

[1] identified by the fact of that person having more-than-usual activity inside something recognized as a government building

[2] EDIT: Okay, I get it -- you can look up banks from the CC number. Can we not have further comments just to point this out?
In China, all ATMs are supposed to record serial numbers.[1][2] That's already deployed. There's no secret about this; some ATMs in Hong Kong give you a list of the serial numbers of the bills just dispensed on their receipt. Coming up next, face recognition.[3]

Many ATMs already have the hardware. To improve counterfeit recognition, most ATMs which accept cash now take a high-resolution image of both sides of the bill and do considerable processing on it. It just takes a software upgrade.

Some bank counting machines also have this feature. Cummings markets their cash counter to law enforcement, so they can capture all the serial numbers from a drug bust and track them.[4]

[1] http://www.grgbanking.cn/en/chinaATMs/images/H68NL.pdf
[2] http://hkmb.hktdc.com/en/1X09V6YK/hktdc-research/ATMs-to-pro...
[3] http://en.yibada.com/articles/35951/20150601/china-worlds-fi...
[4] http://www.cumminsallison.com/us/en/products/currency-handli...
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All those options also apply to Uber, you can buy it or join it and convince the shareholders to make your CEO.
> What if you were just robbed or assaulted by a driver and Uber sends fake data about nearby cars when a cop is trying to use the app to track them down?

You can't use the app to track anyone down. Driver reviews of passengers and passenger reviews of drivers are annoynomous for this reason. If a cop is trying to track an uber driver they would be much better off getting the license plate from the passenger and running that through their system. Trying to randomly hail rides through the app in hopes that the abusive driver would happens to respond sounds like a waste of time when there are better alternatives.
It pains me to think that people nowadays need to be reminded that many cloud services were/are originally available locally, for unlimited use. Amazon's whole services model seems to revolve around converting on-prem services into cloud offerings, even.

Modern computing is just like the chemicals industry now. You can clean your whole house with just a few simple ingredients (only one is a product -- water, citrus, baking soda, vinegar, mud, and bleach), but how many of us actually know that? Instead we go to the store and pick up Windex, Drain-o, and everything else, because we paid more attention to advertisements and marketing droids than the world around us.

The damage that modern technology has done to human resourcefulness makes me weep
I came away from this article impressed with how smart the guys at Uber are. Very impressive!
> They could be investigating a crime related to an Uber driver

In fact, that's what they were investigating. Violating any law is a crime.
And someone will, at some point, point out how 'annoyed' they are at your 'premium feature' fees, when vanguard has much much much lower fees, and most or all of the functionality you'll have developed. or... maybe your plan is to just acquired by vanguard? (I say this not as a vanguard user, but someone who is aware of just how low their fees are relative to most other places, though fidelity is catching up in a lot of areas).
> It's sad how deep the Guardian has gone down the rabbithole in terms of writing exactly what lifestyle leftists- [snip]

It's sad that posts like this, which don't even remotely attempt to address the subject, but simply use a link to the Guardian as an excuse for political axe-grinding, are given the time of day at HN.
Good thing Uber was not in the Apple seat about backdooring specific iPhones...

We know on which side of ethic they are...
I'm happy that, at least in Montreal, we have Téo as a more legit alternative.
Indeed. It is very difficult to renounce citizenship entirely. Doubly so because most emigration targets don't grant full citizenship.

The US is really awful about this. Americans are not allowed to opt out of their citizenship without extreme measures.
Is the mixing automated too? At what points are humans touching these compositions? (Meaning your soundcloud entries)
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The article describes deliberate behavior by Uber to circumvent the law of the land. You might not like the law, but if you believe in the principle of rule of law, then, you should not be OK with this. Otherwise, there's no reason for other companies to, say, pollute the water supply, dump smog into the air, deliver dangerously unsafe foodstuffs or products to consumers, i.e., break the law.
Couldn't agree more, Razer support is awful. They make pretty products, but if something doesn't work you're going to have a very bad time.
This is why the only profession that I'll actually be excited to see replaced by AI is journalism. A few tens of thousands of people out of their (pretty low-paying) jobs, but journalism is so utterly crucial to democracy and societal stability that that could only be celebrated.

AI-journalism would be much less expensive, so expect more non-profits delivering high-quality, unbiased journalism thanks to it. A media outlet is only as good as its most mediocre journalist.

Open-sourcing and reproducible builds (articles) based on that source code would fix the trust issue.
That doesn't negate either coldpie's or my points; if anything, having people use cash effectively helping to subsidize the "credit card tax" only adds more weight to the argument that it's an unreasonable arrangement that only serves to enrich the credit card companies.
There was never a really cheap Lispm. The 'cheap' ones were a Mac II + TI microexplorer or the Mac II + MacIvory. But developer workstations were always expensive - Lispm or not - or underpowered.

What was also expensive was the software. I got a KEE license on a used machine I was given. I think it cost $50k. Similar Symbolics extensions for their OS could be extremely expensive. The graphics suite did cost several 10k per module (paint, model, render, tools, ...).

> a system that was so much designed for programmers was probably never going to command a very big market

Well, they could not live from developers alone. They were also looking for end users. Some of the machines were thought as delivery machines, cheaper and with less resources. There were also tools like 'firewall', which were supposed to keep users from getting in contact with the development environment (like debugger, ...).

Actually Symbolics also targeted high-end endusers, both with hardware and with software. They had to go beyond government developers - to be able to sell machines/software. There were applications that were kind of development centric, like the iCAD cad system - where one could program 3d models via Flavors extensions. But one huge area for Symbolics was the graphics market. 2d, 2.5d animation, 3d animation, paint/model/render. Much of that was used without programming. The graphics suite was mostly targeted at graphics professionals, often doing 3d visualizations for TV, cinema and games. Many TV stations had their logos animated on Symbolics machines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4HXPJtym2Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4HXPJtym2Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Lo0IfUSPk

Early:

http://lispm.de/symbolics-3/symbolics-3.html

Later high-end hardware/software for accelerated graphics:
http://lispm.de/symbolics-1/symbolics-1.html

Thus the UI had to be usable for non-programmers doing graphics work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV5obrYaogU
Maybe Greyball was approved by Uber legal when it was envisioned as a system for excluding bad users (rival companies etc) and then without additional legal review they started using it to exclude suspected law enforcement?
We are actually using Docker for generating the virtualenv that we ship and running tests now. The motivation for doing this is being able to control the environment; we can run tests and build a package on CI, and we can build the same package locally when CI is down. We don’t use Docker in production.

It is not clear to me how Docker solves the issue of pinning dependencies; I would rather have a file that states the exact version of every package to install, than an opaque blessed container image that has some versions installed, and I do want to have the versions used under source control. Generating the image would not be reproducible (in the sense of having the same Python files inside it) without pinning versions somewhere anyway, right? Or am I missing something obvious?
The 'say' you have in government is much smaller than the 'say' you have in using Uber. I can choose not to use Uber any time I please. I can not choose not to be pulled over for speeding, or opt out of murder laws temporarily.

The fact that you don't have a say in Uber's corporate decisions is irrelevant, because you can simply stop using it. You don't need a say. The fact that you can't opt out of government is why you're given a say, and what makes it infinitely more dangerous.
I can confirm that this technology is still in critical use at a very large company that you would be familiar with the name of.

And everybody there hates it, and has hated it for a long, long time, but it works Well Enough, and it would be exceedingly difficult to remove it.
It was? That would make a lot more sense.
Depends on what the laws are. A law gains no special moral quality via the legislative process. Immoral laws exist.
Interesting—thanks for your in-depth perspective.

I didn’t mean to imply that nobody tries in Japanese university, of course, especially since I have no first-hand experience. I’d just heard that the culture is, in general, less rigorous than in Western universities.

The point about networking through professors is really interesting to me. Alongside other replies about the intensity of the job hunt for Japanese students, it does sound like the system is geared as a bit of a ‘hiring pipeline’—to an extent at least.

Note: I skipped out on attending university altogether, so I don’t have a strong sense for the extent to which Western universities differ in these regards.
Setting aside the rather questionable ethics for a moment, this program is quite badass when looking at it from a purely logistical point of view.

In fact, it's so machiavellian that it feels like I'm reading an article disclosing an NSA program and not a private transportation company's activities.

If only they had the same fervor for say, combating sexual harassment in the workplace.
> Hopefully Vanguard will eventually just offer HSA accounts directly

I thought they did already?

https://personal.vanguard.com/us/whatweoffer/overview/health...
the lowest denomination of the dollar is the mill not the cent.
While I don't doubt the rest of the article, I will say as a former Uber intern (this past summer) the vast majority of us were not overworked. I (and most of my fellow Uber interns) worked between 40-50 hours a week, and we were paid hourly (with overtime being paid at 1.5x base pay).
At the rate and escalation of Uber stories we're seeing, you might want to be more cagey juuuust to be safe.
Yeah I love Gogs!!
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This seems awesome to me! Ive had a HSA qualifying health care plan for awhile now, but never really found a bank that had an account without having to pay a monthly fee. Good luck guys!
I bet they are too.
Not only am I done with Uber, I'm starting to wonder about associates and partners (investors, advisors, marketing partners, etc.)

If you're still doing business with Uber in 2017, it's because you don't want to know or you don't care who you're dealing with. Neither reflects well on you. It tells me you have your own very low bar -- your own version of "well we're not as awful as taxis shrug" -- above which anything goes ethically and professionally.

Which is your choice. It is also my choice to be concerned about doing business with you and steer clear.
Let's be clear here. The laws Uber violated here were bad laws. They were the result of a semi-corrupt relationship between city governments and taxi cab companies. Uber has been the prime mover in killing these laws. That's a good thing.
A good list.

"What goes on" -- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L2VjZGd8sDQ
A single leak will often embolden others to follow suit, it's somewhat typical.
The mistake you're making is that "work clothing" needs to be separate from your "after work clothing".

NYC there is no excuse for not finding good and reasonably priced tailors.

You might get dirty looks from those who look worse than you, but suits do in fact make the man.
>What if you were just robbed or assaulted by a driver and Uber sends fake data about nearby cars when a cop is trying to use the app to track them down?

Then I'd say "wow, why is this cop using an inaccurate and highly-likely-to-be-thrown-out-in-court method when the LEA has a stingray that allows them to track the driver directly and accurately?"

>this is local law enforcement

Yes, the poor, good, moral, ethical local law enforcement with their cheap and useless cellphone MiTM.

https://www.aclu.org/map/stingray-tracking-devices-whos-got-...
I recommend you spend the majority of your new found free time away from a desk. Then you'll gain perspective as a newly minted manager regarding the human element of software development.

That being said, Rework by J.F./DHH is fantastic.
Actually even if you "flee," the US has FATCA and taxation on world wide income. If you want to renounce, there's a $2300 fee, plus you have to show 5 years of tax compliance. If you have enough money, there's even an exit tax.
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The problem of Japan is caused specifically because of its make work culture.

Jobs are focused on shoe face, NOT on producing value.

What matters is not how good you are it is how many years you have put into the company working 80 hour weeks.

It is unsurprising to me that a culture not focused on producing value wouldn't produce much value.
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paradoxically, there would be less total suffering (including inmate suffering) if prisons were more humane. That reduces your statement to "Should the victims be the only ones suffering?" after a violent crime. The part you miss is that there's no PSA video warning the perpetrators about the misery of solitary they face before they choose to commit the acts. They are either mentally ill or high when most of those crimes were committed. The only way you'd have a valid argument is if the criminal had a huge ctrl-z button, and once solitary "broke" them , and caused them to hit CTRL-Z, undo the victims' suffering, and everyone goes home. Then solitary would be an amazing, 99.99% effective punishment.

This is not even touching on the fact that a lot of these solitary inmates never commmitted heinous offenses. They just misbehaved in prison or were mentally ill and ran afoul of prison regs.
> If I don't like Uber, I can... stop using Uber.

This is a super naive view of how markets work (and I'm very surprised to see this out of someone who calls the state a "corporation").

I don't really mind Uber as a service; they get me where I need to go. I hate Uber as a market participant. They change the economics of taxis, of existing black car services, of public transit, etc., i.e., of every single thing I'm using because I'm not using Uber.

I haven't used Uber in years, but I want it out of the markets that I try to buy transit service in, because it affects those markets.
The difference between the government and the corporation is the government can confiscate your property, take your liberty, and end your life. A corporation can do none of those things.

A bad government is far, far, far more dangerous than a bad corporation.
Further cultural comparison:

http://www.marycagle.com/letsspeakenglish/69-gesundheit-desu
> What if local law enforcement officer was posing undercover as an Uber customer as part of a sexual assault investigation or trying to track down all drivers in relation to a recent crime?

If they were, then I suspect that Uber would go out of their way to cooperate, using the detailed information they have on ride histories. Get a warrant, serve it to Uber, and get the data needed for the investigation.

This ignores the question of whether Uber should gather and keep that much information, but given that they do, using it seems far more useful than anything this mechanism would have thwarted.
This seems like one of the first major illicit uses of data science. There should be more regulation and oversight over the data owned by corporations.
It can also feel normal. Based on what you've been exposed to you might not realize how bad it is or that you're not supposed to behave that way.

Young people who started careers at Uber may not even realize how odd this is compared to a normal or 'good' company.
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I'd certainly be happy to offer discounted tailoring / suiting and other clothing purchases.

"Look good, feel good, play good." -- Deion Sanders
Yeah, but you could also use it to see where cars are in the area and track them down from there? Except if you're a cop they flagged and they send you bullshit noise on purpose. I guess that's fine, right?
a) That's a good point. Good catch. It does sort of invalidate some of my claims... if it hadn't been for:

b) Wow, they really don't go out of their way marking their opinion pieces as such, do they? I would say it's way, way too understated in terms of typical reader patterns. Basically the headline should be "Opinion: x". Instead it's hidden in a topleft corner. (Maybe they got more conversions after they placed the opinion marker so that people wouldn't see it?)
Voting is an illusion of choice. You have the choice to use Uber or not, You don't have a choice when it comes to following the law.

How is state not a huge corporation?