How Uber Used Secret Greyball Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide
A program uses data Uber collected to evade law enforcement in cities that resist the ride-hailing service, some current and former Uber employees said.
Sexism at Uber from female management #UberStory
My last days at Uber in San Francisco were filled with disrespect, condescending managers, and sexism.
‘Fitbit for cows’ just got into Y Combinator
Cowlar wants to improve the lives of farmers by helping them understand the behaviors of their dairy animals.
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Posted on 2017-03-03T16:16:30+0000
facebookresearch/fastText
fastText - Library for fast text representation and classification.
Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
We’d like to give you some additional information about the service disruption that occurred in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region on the morning of February 28th. The Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) team was debugging an issue causing the S3 billing system to progress more slowly than expe...
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So they never tested taking a large part of such a critical system down? wow.
Posted on 2017-03-02T17:47:09+0000
Susan Fowler Rigetti on Twitter
“Uber names/blames me for account deletes, and has a different law firm -not Holders - investigating me. I have hired https://t.co/IBL14Vj4o1”
Muslim teen found hanged in woods near Seattle; family seeks answers
A Lake Stevens family is asking the FBI to investigate the death of their teenage son. The young man, an African-American Muslim, was found hanged in the
Sessions met with Russian envoy twice last year, encounters he later did not disclose
The attorney general did not disclose the encounters during his confirmation hearing.
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Posted on 2017-03-02T05:52:34+0000
A software engineer is detained for several hours by U.S. Customs — and given a test to prove he’s an engineer
Celestine Omin was accustomed to tackling tough engineering problems. Just not the two that the Border Agent had put in front of his face — or at
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Posted on 2017-03-01T04:37:51+0000
Ask HN: Is S3 down? | Hacker News
But if you go to your personal health dashboard (https://phd.aws.amazon.com/phd/home#/dashboard/open-issues) they report an S3 operational issue event there.
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Whoops.
Also: "Reminds me of an old joke: Why do we host on AWS? Because if it goes down then our customers are so busy worried about themselves being down that they don't even notice that we're down!"
Posted on 2017-02-28T18:40:28+0000