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It's not a myth. Legal and HR will explain to you how easily the company can get sued in those cases. It can be VERY hard to let go an employee who is member of a minority (I speak of experience).
While true, everything posited so far seems reasonable - there do not seem to be anything unbelievable. The addition of multiple emails adds to that reasonableness. Yes, of course he's possibly forging those emails too, but doing this so publicly means this person has a lot more to lose than anyone else. He's hoping this all goes to court - I'm not sure too many people would bluff this far - I think he's got a lot more truth on his side.

That said, I tend to side with underdogs, and have been in a couple similar situations at large companies - nothing this severe, but none of the behavior seems beyond the pale for mid and sr execs at a large company (sad to say). I've worked with some really good ones too, but just because someone has risen to an SVP position doesn't mean they can't also act unethically (or even illegally).
You could extend that concept to bash one-liners, those tend to do a lot of work for the amount of effort put in.

tail -10000 httpd.log | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail

That sort of thing.
>As a result of the open nature of wiki editing, Wikipedia has built up an increasingly restrictive, massive, rule set of how to reject information

It's useful to note that this problem relates more to wiki-encyclopedias, and perhaps not as much to non-encyclopedic wikis. If you take a look at the C2 wiki or MeatballWiki, rejecting information make less of a problem even though they share the principle of anyone being able to edit anything on any page.
MeatballWiki states that it is not an encyclopedia, but rather a set of pages which feature discussion. Because of this, there is less grounds to refuse or revert edits with the reason of being "off-topic" (because discussion usually means merging several related topics) or for being "biased" (again, a feature of discussion is to get one's personal viewpoint across).

In short, I don't think this is a problem due to wiki software or the open nature of wikis, but rather wikis-as-encyclopediae or even Wikipedia specifically. "Encyclopedia" places a huge set of rules as to what can be added and what not.
Given that he isn't employed he is likely his lawyer to take this case on contingency; which means there is at least some truth to what is being said. Remember he is quoting, in places, discovery transcripts; lying to a court is hardly something one does, let alone on a whim.

Going public is a double edged sword, if someone is willing to stick their head this far above the parapet there must be something going on. I'd say both parties have some explaining to do, and a fair amount of it. The evidence is compelling, I wonder if the other parties have evidence that is as compelling?
I think most of our progress in life is self-experimentation in one sort or another. We try things and do what works and stop doing what doesn't.

By the way, did anyone find out what happened to Seth?
I think distributed backup (of encrypted files) could be a great use case. But (like the CDN case mentioned elsewhere) this is also more demanding of bandwidth than CPU, which isn't really what you want here if your goal is to produce heat.

Distributed rendering of video content could maybe be a good use case - moderate bandwidth requirements, heavy CPU/GPU utilization, data not overly sensitive.
I understand this worry. I only occasionally do this sort of thing for friends that I know (or expect) to appreciate the amount of time and effort enough to not consider me just a "go to guy".

Yes this sort of clean-up job costs at least 3 hours or so (because the machine will be slow).

So I make sure whoever I'm doing it for is present during this time. I'm not going to sit in a cold home office room battling spyware alone (that's setting yourself up for the scenario you describe). It's also not very difficult work (or interesting), so I can easily do it while having a beer or a smoke, chatting, enjoying music, having dinner with my friends. Often that means there's more than one tech-savvy person around, and we can take turns pressing the "Next" and "Are you sure?" buttons, and have some fun making up weird stuff for the occasional "Please tell us why you're no longer using Power Clicky Pro Live Updater" feedback forms. In the mean time I give them some general computer advice (Windows key shortcuts you thought everybody knew), replace Acrobat with SumatraPDF, WinRAR with 7-Zip, etc.

In return I can call upon them for other favours. As I said, often I get the occasional "thank you our laptop is still much faster", months afterwards.

If they won't appreciate what you do, the time you spend applying your knowledge on their problem, then by all means, don't do it. Compare it with a friend helping you out with some technical DIY task at home, applying their knowledge, time and tools for your benefit. Does that automatically make them the "go-to guy" for fixing your sink or toilet? Just make sure people understand what you're doing for them is in the same category.

If you find that hard to explain, or make clear, then don't do it. Good call on giving them contact info for local shops that will do it for money, it's a great alternative, better than nothing. But just like some random friend who knows plumbing or electricity, even if that shop's hourly wage x time spent is perfectly fair (and it's often cheaper than that), I still have a weird feeling telling my friends to pay $75 (or whatever) to get their machine cleaned.
I believe it used to be quite useful when your only option to read PDFs was Acrobat which was slow and would often lock up your browser while the plugin loaded.

Now that both Firefox and Chrome include built in PDF readers and we've also got other options like SumatraPDF, I see little value in Scribd any more.
MCMC probabilistic programming won't be the next big thing in machine learning though. You need some sort of maximum likelihood / maximum a posteriori / variational bayes to do machine learning. MCMC is far too slow.
I had exactly the same revelation during a protracted encounter I had at $NAME_WITHHELD - huge admired company - after working there for several years, and coming into an ethical and legal conflict against my division director.

It was made abundantly clear that the goals of HR do not align with our notions of HR being champions for the workers.

I appreciate this sounds blindingly obvious and almost forehead slapping to anyone who hasn't been on the sharp end of this, but let me assure you that when you are on the sharp end, this will be driven home with fervour.
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A company as large as Amazon has an HR policy that allows for dismissal upon proof of fraud on the job application. Unless the company was worried about how many other people they'd get asked about why they hadn't canned.

(NB: I'm still uncomfortable with how we're discussing her employment as if we were a gossip site, but this is a general policy.)
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(from the Wikipedia article)

Yes, the lander failed, but the bus itself did land on the surface. It was a sample return mission which is in many ways a greater feat.
i can fully relate to this even though im the entrepreneur, but I can see the same happening with my wife. Sometimes it feels like living a completely separate life, different schedules. I think it can be managed, although it's hard. You need to set and dedicate personal / family time which you never sacrifice for meetings or work, and try to make each moment together same as it was on the honeymoon. it's damn hard, but otherwise the relationship wont work out, and you end up loosing everything, because when your going downhill emotionally which happens often in the startup life the only person who will support you AND ur company is your wife and no one else.
The accusations are supported by Munira's comments in deposition, along with her emails. It'd be pretty hard to fabricate all of that.

It's not as if they're unsubstantiated accusations. Even if a significant portion of the document is completely fabricated, the bits based on emails & deposition are pretty damning.
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Wow STRML - thats exactly how i felt and why i created CloudCoreo.com... you are literally describing what we do (plus we handle services other than ec2 as well). it's not technically open to the public until January, but after seeing what you want i would love your feedback on the system. Let me know if you are interested and i can walk you through how it works.
One could say the same about companies and organizations that you admit to supporting as well.

So, if all choices are bad choices, what are you left with?
Non-competes may be legal but they almost never hold water, especially if you're new job is in a different state.

I know this was Washington, and I'm unfamiliar with the laws there, but I know in California it's nearly impossible to enforce a non-compete clause. [Here's a good read on the topic.](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/business/noncompete-clause...)
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We can talk about this all day without moving anywhere. Remember tanks in 1989 Tiananmen Square? From primary school people are brainwashed with CCP-is-holy thing. Many understand what is going on, but the attitude is "survival comes first". There are still plenty are too well brainwashed to know why life in China could be so hard.
Yes, people can dream, but communism has its tradition, brutal tradition. People become realistic, you know, pay the bill and feed their children.
kefka said:

> Scribd is "Hacker News" quality. They're one of the HN venture capital funded companies.

I agree with @nsomaru that it would be great to submit PDFs rather that Scribd links, especially since the HN guidelines say the original document should be submitted. On the other hand, I'm not sure if HN wants to bypass a YC-funded company.
> People expressing a fear that minorities are receiving unjust benefits are often racist?

This type of thinking in our industry needs to STOP. There is far too much evidence that women are treated like absolute shit pretty much across the board (don't bother pointing out your handful of CEOs and other execs, if you can't face this fact then you're part of the problem).

If it happens to women, it happens to others.

You sound like you've got some pretty sweet white, male privilege. If you aren't a member of that majority, well they've certainly got you on their side.
Gaben has made it pretty clear that Steam's role as a curator is not something he wanted, and not something that will continue in Steam's future.

> "One of the worst characteristics of the current Steam system is that we've become a bottleneck. There's so much content coming at us that we just don't have enough time to turn the crank on the production process of getting something up on Steam. So whether we want to or not, we're creating artificial shelf space scarcity.

> "So the right way to do that is to make Steam essentially a network API that anyone can call. Now, this is separate from issues about viruses and malware. But essentially, it's like, anyone can use Steam as a sort of a distribution and replication mechanism.

> "It's the consumers who will draw it through. It's not us making a decision about what should or shouldn't be available. It's just, you want to use this distribution facility? It's there. And customers decide which things actually end up being pulled through. So Steam should stop being a curated process and start becoming a networking API."

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/186168/Gabe_Newells_visio...
Sorry with the CoD/PS remark I was referring to their decision of making Visual Studio community edition, not the open sourcing of .NET.

VS will of course still be used by megacorps to make those huge apps, and ms will still charge them for it.

The free VS + open .NET just means single devs and startups have fewer reasons left to pick e.g node, jvm or Python as their platform. unlike before, these small players are very interesting since one of them is making the next minecraft and will host it on Azure.
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Agreed. I hope that's the take home message for Google. They started something good with Nexus and made it better with Moto . But 2014 has been a disappointment so far. Hope the successor of Nexus 6 addresses all these issues (and pray it's not called Nexus 7).
MINERVA failed to land, but Hayabusa made a series of soft landings on to the asteroid in 2005, and collected samples that were returned to Earth. Pretty amazing in its own right and time.
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This has aleady been going on, publicly, for many years and is the value proposition of several companies.

Take a look at TippingPoint ZDI and VUPEN. All they do is find/buy vulnerabilities, privately weaponize (or provide mitigations for) them, and sell the new product to companies and governments.
I've rejected employment offers because of non-compete clauses. But not everyone is in a position to do so.
Does it have support for WASAPI output on Windows? The output via DirectSound is unacceptable for some with the obsession on bit-perfect output (or Audiophiles, I suppose).
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Pardon my cynicism but according to the letter Discover spends $13MM a year at Amazon. Thus 500k more or less works out to ~4% of their budget.

My hunch is this will at most be a subject of chuckle between Bezos and David Nelms (Discover CEO) on the Golf course.

Bezos might roll some heads, install some "supervision", give them a discount on a future campaign...

Advertising budgets are not an exact science anyway. And Amazon is still the largest online retail site in the world - where else would Discover go to spend their Ad dollars?
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It's not us making a decision about what should or shouldn't be available

We have that, and it's called "installing from the developer's website".

Allowing everyone on Steam would be a mistake; driving down the minimum quality of games makes it harder to discover and reward the best games. Steam's success so far has been in quality and discounts.
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Disclaimer: I haven't read through the entire thing (just the first 3 pages or so), but I have been on the receiving end of entirely spurious threats of lawsuit.

All of this needs to be read with some measure of skepticism. However, the complaint provides a fair amount of evidence, not just claims of wrongdoing... that gives it a fair amount of credence in my eyes.

If so, that is very damning of the top-down, strongly hierarchical culture that Amazon is well-known for - but I would argue it is inevitable for any company that has a very hierarchical top-down culture...

You can't make up for the downsides of top-down management with pretty words and values and employee handbooks. Hierarchical, power-based management will always lead to serious ethical lapses like this.
If so, isn't he ruining his own career? Who is going to hire him now?
Well that's a non-starter.
Amazon has a termination policy in the offer letter, this is just BS.
That could make sense, especially if those office buildings have backup generators. As it is, I've lived in a nice neighborhood that every winter had at least one or two power outages lasting at least a day or two.
I actually think C# (and many OOP languages) gets around this fairly well, by having virtual and extension methods. Many types of functions can be added easily without needing to go back through every inheritor.
Actually, PDFy is way, way better ...

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It's easy to host a pdf on it. Most file sharing sites have countdowns / ads / gates to entry instead of just showing the content.
The stomach is well-known to suffer from problems when stress levels are high (nervous gastritis etc), something that mental health problems usually produce as side-effects.

Here they are claiming microbes living in intestines (which is a different thing) actually cause mental illness. It's a very different thing.
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OS X has DummyNet installed (belieie this is what NLC uses)

You can configure DummyNet to shape traffic for specific IPs/ MAC addresses etc. - ifpw is you friend.
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Dual SIM is working fine with 2G, but not well with always on data. What's important to understand is that those dual SIM devices only have a single radio, that must be shared between both SIMs. And that's not part of the standard, so one has to play some tricks.

In the 2G era, the modem was mostly in idle mode. In this mode it sleep most of the time, and wakes up now and then (network configurable, around 1 sec. roughly) to listen for a paging opportunity. The network uses this time slot to send a paging signal to the device if it needs to wake up and reconnect because of a network initiated incoming call.
Because the active paging time is very small compared to the sleep duration of the paging cycle, it's pretty easy to handle two SIMs: register serially, and then the paging opportunity are unlikely to clash (and if they do one can play tricks until they don't).
Then if a call comes in on one SIM, connect for this SIM. You can't listen to the other SIM paging but it's unlikely you'll get two calls at the same time, and without answer another call will go to your voice mail, which is good.
That was dual active dual SIM at the time of 2G, and it was good for the users.

With 3G without data, it's about the same. But with modern 3G with mostly always on, and for sure with LTE with always on data, it's much more tricky. The modem will still go to idle a good part of the time even with always on data, but it'll wake-up much more often and at unpredictable times. Also, there are other low-power modes that can remove the need to go to idle for arbitrarily long durations (like connected DRX in LTE for example). It's just not safe to mux two active SIMs in this environment.

So in short: forget about dual active SIMs with 4G. You can still have dual SIM slots, with a user controlled switch and only one active at a time. But it's not as convenient.
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So Microsoft is able to provide a better Android emulator than Google itself.

I really wonder who is developing Android at Google, when I look at the emulator, open bugs in the SDK or NDK support.

I guess spending resources moving from Eclipse to Android Studio and still not there, after one year is more important.
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They now give away all their software (despite upcharging for more iCloud space). On the Macs, Apple has embraced that people want to run Windows and supported Boot Camp for generations of hardware now. The entire retail outlet is dedicated to selling the hardware and accessories for said hardware, with a single vertical column (maybe that much) left over for software. They provide an App Store on both platforms, but produce a minority of what they sell there. Apple is a hardware company.

For what it's worth, I get your point, though. My preference is to use OSX over Windows these days, but that's because I find it to be the best intersection of *nix boxes (which all of my servers run) and a pleasant UI with great apps (because I'm still a human, and sometimes I tire of the command line). But look at the way iCloud took forever to become stable - if it's even there now - or the recent decreased in perceived QA (iOS 8.0.1, Apple Maps), and you can tell Apple's focus isn't on software as much as hardware.
To be perfectly fair, in any job this is what you're supposed to do -- make your boss look good, who makes his boss look good, etc. That's how you get promoted.

"Make me look good" doesn't mean "do stuff and I'll take all the credit" -- at least not with a good manager. It's about meeting/exceeding your goals, which helps your boss meet/exceed his goals, etc. and makes the organization stronger.

That said, this is not something you would plainly state to your direct report...
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I am sorry for sounding dismissive. I read through 20 pages and all of it looked like someone having email disagreements with their coworkers. I'll read some of the commentary and try to understand the moral issues here better.
It's identity politics. People want something to make them feel special. With the decline of actual strife (sectarian, racial, gender) in society, people need to feel like they are oppressed by something. Gluten and the food industry conveniently fit the bill for many.
> Pros: Reasonably priced for what it is

A year ago, we had a 5" smartphone (Nexus 5) for 399€ and a 7" tablet (Nexus 7) for 299€.
Now, we have a 6" smartphone (Nexus 6) for 699€. Is it reasonably priced?
I have too. I find it a great tool once I understood it.
You're right. The email transcripts are fairly damning though.
Care to elaborate about that? I don't see the security concern if the data is encrypted on disk and both ways over the network. I doubt they would just leave the private keys to hang out on the server for anyone to take.
They'd need to immediately shut down their server as well (as in immediately, as in crash), and even that's not necessarily enough to remove data from RAM before attackers can get to it.
I think that 129 comments when I last looked, answers your concern.
This doesn't solve the problem.

Unless the cabinet is air tight, and uses a pressure sensor to detect itself being opened. It's "Is the cabinet open?" subroutine can be defeated by simply opening the cabinet where a sensor isn't located.

Basically cut the sucker open on the side.

:.:.:

Also by using a time sharing OS its likely you can induce a large network based load externally slowing its IO speed to the level you can open the cabinet, and "close" the cabinet from the sensors perspective while leaving it opened.

:.:.:

Further more data loss doesn't occur on door opening, thus the keys are still recoverable, because without it would be impossible to service.