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Why did they need to pass on so much PII to third parties? Feels like a systemic issue to me

Hey, that account has gone private. Could you share a TL:DR of what happened if possible?

Please define what "woke" and "SJW" means. Whenever I see it being used on HN especially in contexts like this, it's a strawman for "anybody with a political opinion different from mine"

I don't really know where this moral panic about woke culture in tech is coming from. It's not something I've experienced in the workplace.

Same here - it's an easy agenda to outrage about that's destroying the quality of discourse here on HN

Uber had a woman complain about not getting a jacket in her size

That is a wilful and bad faith misrepresentation of the Susan Fowler situation to such a degree that I am skeptical of everything else you've just written.

We're a design agency that went fully remote for the first time during the pandemic last year. It was a bit of a shock, but we tried our best to get to this new way of working.

With remote teams, there's no end to the tools we can use to be more efficient, productive, motivated... you get the drill.

But time-off tools are almost always an afterthought — that is, until information gaps and unplanned absences wreak havoc on project plans.

When you use all-in-one HR tools and spreadsheet hacks, some pretty hair-raising stuff happens:

1) When applying for time off is complicated, teams don't take a break

2) You lose track of who's in and who's out, and plans start to suffer

3) Overworked teammates start feeling burnt out and unhappy more often than usual

4) Too many features overwhelm your team and the pricing makes you cry.

These scarily common problems hamper the well-being of high-autonomy teams.

We've been there — so we decided to built a product internally last year to solve this.

It worked so well that we started slowly sharing it with other folks and now, more than nine months later, we're really excited to announce that our product's finally launched on Product Hunt and is currently at #3 !

Pause helps teams:

1) Take time off

2) Know colleagues' availability

3) Create transparent policies

4) Plan better together

We've built Pause to integrate with some commonly used work tools like Slack and Google Calendar so that it's easy to use and you don't have to switch contexts too much.

We're looking forward to answer any questions you folks might have!

I'm not personally a big fan of Palmer Luckey but he really shat the bed with that statement. Just completely destroyed his credibility.

Facebook added that Oculus users will be able to hide individual ads or choose not to see ads from a certain advertiser.

Very interesting. The Oculus is quite a good deal at 299 USD given its technical specifications. I suspected that they were selling them below cost and subsidising them through stuff like this.

The issue is that, as a data-driven organisation I am certain that they would have assessed the likely impact of including ads on turning away users and made that the decision.

This is very interesting, thanks for sharing

Yeah what was up with that?

I don't know if you've read Mike Isaac's book on Uber? Michael Ovitz very famously screwed over Travis Kalanick when he invested in Travis' first startup.

This was a great comment

You've pointed out that you have to absorb information to be able to get to a point where you can engage with a topic - but also, there's value in having beginners discuss and analyse stuff, because they're not set onto the paths that other experts have and would be more able to connect disciplines or arrive at an insight that others might not be able to think of.

https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/922563981826441216

Here's the photo of Palmer Luckey with Bannon. He claims in this tweet that he was flashing the sign "ironically" as a hoax in this reply: https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/922575384817950726

Because they are largely hypocrites. In fact a lot of them identify more with the capitol rioters being delatformed and are scared that they could be next in line, and this was not the case with ISIS for example.

I've never understood this "what-about-ism". I see it as a bad faith tactic of deflecting attention from one issue to another, when the person doing it knows exactly how bad and indefensible their chosen stance is, and is trying to downplay it. I think it would be vocal to see why this OP is so instinctively fixated on BLM, Seattle and Portland and not on the Capitol attack. What does this reveal about the OP's own biases and what and whom they consider important?

Trump pardons former Uber executive Anthony Levandowski on the recommendation of a panel that includes Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey.. (EDIT: Palmer Luckey) -> who famously caught on camera flashing a white supremacy sign in a photo with the conspiracy theorist Chuck Johnson and Steve Bannon (who was also pardoned today)- just hilarious levels of corruption all around

How does Anthony Lewandowski being pardoned advance any public good? I would argue it does the exact opposite.

He still stole and he's still a criminal. What are you trying to prove here

There is also an issue of maintainability and spare parts. For example, the technology behind how phone screens work is broadly understood, leading to people being able to replace their phone screens if they are broken or no longer working. There is no such thing for Kindle or e-readers more generally, because a lot of this is hidden in patents. so if you're a consumer and want to purchase one, and it breaks somehow you're SOL.

I had the privilege of visiting Venice over Christmas and New Years of 2019 and just wandering around an almost deserted island. It was otherworldly.

Oh absolutely. As a product designer, I was worried that it may be rendered obsolete, but the industry standard for design tools have moved into cloud-based browser solutions, so it will still be useful forever

Multiple studies have shown that Facebook and twitter do not censor conservatives. This has been well established and anyone who argues otherwise is either ignorant or arguing from a position of bad faith.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/10/two-new-studies-show-again...

What we see for prominent conservatives, however, feels very unfair to me

I find this extremely ironic given that the slogan "facts don't care about your feelings" is attributed to conservatives in particular

The entirety of modern economics is based on the presupposition that monetary value is the only factor in rational decision making.

A "free market" is literally defined as - "a system in which the *prices* for goods and services are self-regulated by the open market and by consumers" - all goods and services have a monetary price in such a system.

It is both inappropriate and in bad taste to call this a free market solution when it is clearly not.

You've spent your entire comment attacking an imagined "left" instead of engaging with the content of the article or contributing meaningfully to the discussion.

The left thinks their ideological enemies are war criminals who should be executed without trial, or even better be defamed into unemployability and homelessness and hopefully commit suicide, the ultimate triumph for the far-left mob.

This is.. false on so many levels

many white men in general, feel they are being treated very unfairly and realize that far-left activist employees are basically being allowed to frivolously hurt them with impunity and full company backing, even if their activism hurts the other employees ability to do their work and thus the company

This is also false.

This entire comment is full of delusions of victimhood and rants against an imagined enemy. It's telling that you used a sockpuppet or a throwaway account to write this instead of an actual account. I honestly feel sad for you.

Are you a GitHub employee? Otherwise what is the purpose of this really weird and ad-hominem rant

I'm sorry - how does the OP know what? That there were nazis at the capitol? Because there literally were? I don't get what you're trying to prove with this comment

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93wnja/neo-nazis-boast-about...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/15/22232766/github-employees...

The employee was chastised for using divisive language, according to news first reported by Business Insider. Now, GitHub workers are saying “Nazi” repeatedly in Slack, in regards to the US Capitol rioters, to protest what is being perceived as unfair treatment.

What a god damn nightmare, honestly. How is anybody getting any work done there

The comments section on HN do not leave me feeling like racism is being given enough consideration within the community.

Like it or not, there's an instinctive urge to deny that there are problems, and make it look like the victim is at fault for complaining. Nobody sits down and actually listens to what they have to say. Really disappointed by the HN community on this - and a bunch of big VCs - Jason Calacanis, Paul Graham, Balaji Srinivasan - who flocked to the defence of Coinbase after the memo pre-empting the story, but then were conveniently silent once the report actually came out.

I think this is a broader silicon valley problem - that oh, our companies are perfect! We can do no wrong. This applies to sexism, racism, any kind of -isms. It might also be illuminating reading to take a look at what HN commenters were saying about for example Susan Fowler's blog post (questioning her credentials, speculating that she was making false allegations) or even the Google protests about Andy Rubin's payout.

One Black employee said her manager suggested in front of colleagues that she was dealing drugs and carrying a gun, trading on racist stereotypes. Another said a co-worker at a recruiting meeting broadly described Black employees as less capable. Still another said managers spoke down to her and her Black colleagues, adding that they were passed over for promotions in favor of less experienced white employees. The accumulation of incidents, they said, led to the wave of departures.

Wow.