skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Uber said it had not received any national security letters or orders under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance act.

An NSL is typically reserved for companies who can give broad access to user data, such as requiring all previous and any future data for x amount of time for 3-hops from a single persons social network (which could be hundreds of people).

That plus obscure the target. So an NSL wouldn't be necessary if they could hit up the regulators for large data dumps. The only question then is providing real-time access/future data.

I'm not sure Uber fits the profile for NSLs. Primarily given the fact that Uber likely doesn't have social network data on their riders so a simple court order for a single users rides and GPS locations is probably all that's available for an NSA/FBI investigations. Unlike an email provider like Yahoo/Lavabit, or an ISP for example, which could provide multi-hop data.

I'm curious if they built the NSA/FBI a full realtime data feed access system the way Blackberry did [1] for their BBM system during G20 in Toronto in 2010. Since the founder of Uber spoke about having a "god-mode" system [2] in place to do pretty much the same. It wouldn't be hard to expose that same system to federal agencies (even voluntarily).

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-06-17/blackberry...

[2] http://www.buzzfeed.com/johanabhuiyan/uber-is-investigating-...
> it is important to note that they operate on very different principles.

High fissile vs low fissile equates to different principals? What a load of FUD in an article claims to show some insight on the matter.
Code is Law (2000)
That depends on how much energy that the space craft reflects. If it reflects all of it, the space craft would not gain any heat at all unless there is some weird quantum effect that would mean otherwise.
This is some mass data level submission. Thanks for the transparency but at the same time, goodbye Uber.
Just for perspective, 12 million users (assuming this is US-based) is 3.7% of the US population in aggregate. This is an even higher percentage of Uber's US user base (probably by a factor of 10 or 20).
Can't start a trial account.

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My immediate thought was, "12 million? Either governmental bodies in the US are really ramping up their social mapping efforts (in a very unusually transparent way), or this isn't a typical privacy/intelligence-related article."

The latter proved to be correct, and thus, I don't think it's as sensational a revelation as I'm sure many news agencies and privacy-conscious individuals will spin it to be.

Relevant excerpts:

>A large number of the law enforcement requests were related to fraud investigations or the use of stolen credit cards, according to the report.

>Uber said it had not received any national security letters or orders under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance act.
XCode has a fantastic interface for writing Swift, which is no longer specific to Apple hardware. It also has a decent (if not fantastic) IDE for basic C and C++ development. Visual Studio has some great plugins for not only generic C and C++ development, it also has great integrations available for JavaScript and Python (which many developers prefer to use over even JetBrains fantastic cross-platform offerings).

If you look at Go, Python, and Ruby web development, there is nothing special about the Linux environment that these programming languages do not provide built-in solutions to. Sockets, file handles, threading and process management are all abstracted to the level that you can run the same code on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

So, in _my_ opinion, it comes down to which OS you enjoy the most for your development work; you can make any of them work for whatever type of development you want to do (particularly something as high level as web development).
unless "Uber says" is a service they provide to law enforcement.
"Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded" - Yogi Berra.
What is there for Windows?
For internal test environments, you'd probably want to run your own ACME server[0] and use certs from that if you can. Then you only need to trust your internal CA that you can manager, rather than the test one that LetsEncrypt offer.

[0] https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder
The big difference seems to be that bots built on this platform are not to be used as an ad delivery mechanism, like, say, outbound.io. The App Review section of the docs makes this a little clearer of what is acceptable and what isn't, complete with graphics:

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/app-...
In case you are an idiot like me, you have to train your neural network by pressing "play".
You are intentionally misrepresenting things to further your own point. There are countless leaks worse than "dog pictures or email addresses" and you can't blame "crashing the global economy for personal gain" on any single person, company, or action.
> "Anyway, I'm not sure what you're driving at...was the comment left unfinished for some sort of meta purpose?"

Sorry about that, it wasn't my intention. Sometimes I'll leave a post half finished when I'm looking up a link because my phone's web browser has a habit of erasing partially complete comments when I change tabs, so my only reliable option is to post what I have before I'm ready. In this case I took longer than I thought I would to look up a link for you. I won't promise it won't happen again, but I'll try to make what I'm doing clearer next time.

To see the opposite to nihilism, let's first look at interconnectedness. What are your thoughts on the ideas in this video?

http://youtu.be/HM31KBLRQTg
Did This New Nonprofit Crack the Code for Building Developing World Housing?
If you have a password manager that successfully tracks the questions, then there's no reason to need to recover the password, as you'll just track the password in the same system.

The catch-22 of these systems is that recovery questions need to be obvious, memorable and unchanging enough to the user that they are useful for recovery, while also being hard for a third party to guess/research. I feel like for the most part those are more often than not mutually exclusive.
> about 3.9e4m^3 every second, which contains about 3.9e11 hydrogen atoms

I think this step is off by 1e5. It contains 3.9e16 hydrogen atoms at 1e6/cm^3.

So that 631 MJ becomes 63.1 TJ.
Oh it's a well-known problem in the area. Most recently, people in Boulder were upset with the fact that Google wanted to expand and add something like 4000 jobs.

Heaven forbid a bunch of new tech jobs are added to your precious town, right?
Except, when it is Constraint Satisfaction Programming. Lots of acronyms have multiple meaning :)
Meanwhile the UK has had instant transfers since 2008. That's about two years after I last wrote a cheque.
Most of the banks' underwriting policies involve loans at 80% maximum LTV (hence 20% down payment expected from the buyer).

Most of the subprime sector evolved from trying to game the 20% requirement, either legislatively (through HUD and other "assistance" programs), financially (interest-only loans) or just plain old dishonesty (no-doc loans) originated by companies like Countrywide.
Any hope for Android support?
It would be rather anticlimatic if it hit one of them before reaching Alpha Centauri and no one noticed.
Bootstrapped companies are at a huge disadvantage vs. funded companies. Funded companies can afford deeper longer-sighted investments and kamikaze growth-at-all-costs free/freemium strategies that bootstrappers cannot.

The only huge growth companies to emerge as startups that I can think of that started with a paid product were companies with an unavoidable physical dimension like Uber and AirBnB.
This ignores the fact that the current Silicon Valley has none of these things. Palo Alto has a 3x4 blocks region of low density apartment buildings alongside storefronts, and that's all encircled by single-family residences.

Right now, only NY and Chicago (edit: and Boston) have anything in the US that really can claim to be high density. Most of the other "next valley" candidates are not set up to be high density, at all. The real test is that it should be easy for a person to have all of their needs and most of their desires met, while choosing not to own a car. They should not be unreasonably burdened by choosing that.

SF is barely passing that test IMO, being a non-car owning resident here, but it's getting better. The other city where that might possible is Portland, and from what I recall of Austin (it's been a while) it's not nearly dense enough to support this.
Let me rephrase it: "Goldman Sacks took a central role in creating a crisis that, hadn't it been resolved by investing hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars, would've tanked the global economy; it also made sure to be on the negotiating table from day 1, so that its interests took precedence over those of other companies (Bearn Sterns, Lehman Brothers) and the American public."

So yeah, they might have not taken down the economy, but fuck me they got a sweet deal for being criminally irresponsible.
I do the same, but Correct Horse Battery Staple them.
Looks like a dead end to me
Funny, I just got recruiter spam promoting Lantern today, and the email mentioned the investment from UPMC (that’d be University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the med school & healthcare conglomerate, for those unfamiliar with the 412)
Really impressive response - they took the high road here and the data was nice. The whole time I was reading the book, I just felt like something was off. Like he was sort of out of touch and hypocritical in a lot of his arguments (like accusing the company of ageism, right after complaining that his manager was 28). It seemed like Dan may have wanted to write this book before even taking a job at the company. Too many low-ball shots and unsubstantiated stories of hearsay. Glad to see the other side of this.
I'm not a big fan of the 'privilege' stuff, but "too many good jobs" smacks of someone who's completely disconnected from the reality of a great many people in the world. Especially since I was living in Italy, with a 40% youth unemployment rate, at the time I wrote the above article. "Move to Greece if you want to experience the pleasure of a place without so many of those darn jobs!" is what I can't help but thinking.
"The test suite needs to be fast. It needs to have decent coverage, but doesn't necessarily have to be perfect."

Holy hell, what a telling statement that is. I get not unit testing for 1 == 1, but come on, unit and integration tests for, say, user login should be difficult, not fast. There are some test suites that actually do need to be perfect, unless Instagram thinks that eg OWASP isn't "decent coverage".
You are right, we are so much better off by having bailed them out. We should do more of that.
Burgeoning only means it's starting to grow fast, it doesn't mean it can't have been well-established already as well.
For Polio Vaccines, a Worldwide Switch to New Version
I need this in my life! Hope you make it guys.
We don't need to try. A hacker already did and was successful.
> hahaha

Glass houses.
Can't read on ios due to social media buttons overlapping the text.
I'm not sure whether YC is actually that great for startup hubs outside of SF. After all, the most ambitious founders seem likely to just go through YC and then stay in SF because all the other ambitious founders have stayed in SF, the VCs are there, the talent is there. Yes, they could head back to Pittsburgh, but that's 2 moves for a fledgeling startup, and they have little to gain from the second.

It kinda reminds me of Front[0], another YC startup from France, which decided to eventually move their entire team to SF. I'd wager that the cultural differences in this move outshine those of a Pittsburgh-San Francisco move, and they still decided it was the most sensible option.

And if they are sucessful, you file them under SF startup instead of French startup, or Pittsburgh startup, or Berlin startup, because that's where they've spent the majority of their time, and that's where they are right now. Through some mental fudging, it becomes another data point for "If I want to start a startup, I need to go to SF".

[0]http://themacro.com/articles/2016/02/pros-and-cons-of-distri...
Invention is Drudgery
> My wife filled one out a few weeks ago where both the questions and answers were selected from popup menus

United Airlines does this.

Their reason is incredibly depressing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/evacide/status/711853927134842880

Infosec is an unsolved problem in so many ways, especially for the majority of people that are nontechnical.
Either of these cities socially liberal? Hard to tell based on my visits there.
A question to the downvoters: Whats your solution to this problem? It seems that you know a way which does exclude any risk of polluting the groundwater. I really would like to hear your ideas.
I grew up out west, had family and such out there. That was a big reason.

The weather has been mentioned by others. They have relatively rough winters. Fairly hot and humid summers. Spring and autumn are pretty awesome though, unfortunately that's when CMU was doing the CMU thing and play time was limited.

Perhaps it has changed as Paul suggests, but in the 1990s they were still in their negative pessimistic ways. It was routine to hear locals talk about how the city's best days were in the past. I learned 2 things: 1) when big time jobs leave it takes a long time for the place to heal and Pittsburgh lost a lot of jobs from the unions and steal and all sorts of things. 2) I grew up in a fairly optimistic place, at least a neutral one towards progress and just building things and doing things. They had this negative attitude that just sort of sits on you, I couldn't place it until I really left, but the negative attitude was oppressive. You're young and excited, you want to dream, you want to believe the dream and it's a place where a lot of people have had their dreams go away. A substantial portion of the populace just sort of expected Pittsburgh to fail when it attempted things. I found that attitude rough, it wasn't obvious to me the entire time I was there but it didn't feel good. It's bigger than just Pittsburgh, Wheeling has experienced some rough times, I visited Youngstown once (they had the nearest version of some store where I could exchange some Christmas gift) and it was like visiting a different country.

The tax situation there isn't great. Sort of surprised nobody has mentioned this, there is like a city income tax. And then ultimately, more money is more money, you can talk about the cost of living but iphones, xboxes and cars cost the same everywhere.. I want to say the good starting jobs for fresh grads in the Cleveland/Pittsburgh area were like $50k-$60k in the mid 1990s, out west I made more than that.

PGH is a great town, a lot of character, it's a good town to raise a family in, it has a lot of positives. Surely there is enough money there to spin up some VC funds, I could see it being a small to medium startup hub but I don't know how much it has really changed.
So it sounds like we'd have a layered sequence of dialectric mirrors (themselves many layers each) each reflecting a different wavelength. The first layer lasts until the laser redshifts out of that layer's efficient reflection range, then vaporizes revealing the next layer tuned to the redshifted laser. That layer lasts until the laser redshifts even further, then vaporizes to reveal the next, and so on.

Sacrificial layers may also help with heat management, I suppose.
Octopus Deploy also has a small tool, DBUp, which can run migration scripts. I've been using it for years with no issues.

https://dbup.github.io/
Determining galactic distances via machine learning
Pandora pays the superstars well and if you aren't getting millions of plays, you aren't making enough to even provide for yourself.

In November 2012, the Grammy-nominated hit song-writer Ellen Shipley reported that one of her most popular tracks got played 3,112,300 times on Pandora.

For this, she was paid $39.61

(Source: the somewhat depressing "The Internet is Not The Answer", by Andy Keen)
That's nothing compared to the graffiti in San Francisco!
Not to mention an account with saved billing info could be used to sell "extra copies of games I can gift you for a few bucks" since Steam allows gifting. What, you mean you didn't mean to buy 10 copies of "DARK SOULS III Deluxe Edition + Steam Controller Bundle" for $115 each to gift to all your friends and family?
How can users communicate with a Bot Engine bot? Since wit.ai is part of Facebook, I naturally wonder if these bots will be locked into the Facebook platform.
Apple don't give money to no one. Possibly the least altruistic company ever, which is disgraceful considering they're also the wealthiest.
On the other hand, some of these need to retain some info in order to not give you free trial again and again.

But I still think someone like Netflix could do more. They could maybe store just enough credit card data to ensure it is no longer usable for free trial and then de-associate viewing data from the rest of your account and delete everything not strictly needed for the credit card part.
General purpose blockchains are social clay: you can model any economic interaction on them, then people can engage in that interaction without any company's assistance or permission. I think I have a model that incentivizes crowds to direct their efforts and funds like a non-profit.

It might not work, but if it does, no one can stop those crowds. If I find a new shiny object to chase, the software will keep running as long as people want to use it. We can reshape our world with software that can't be stopped.

We've strayed too far off topic, but you and any readers should feel free to email me anytime. It's in the profile.
How to define and model Churn
Some of Van Halen's albums were done at home, in his home recording studio named "5150".

I believe the "Beat It" guitar solo was also recorded there. Because there was no legal paperwork with MJ's mgmt., that was a freebie - to the utter dismay of his label.
So far as I can tell from the scant technical details, this isn't a true 3D 360deg video solution. It seems like this camera will provide stereo 360deg video for horizontally aligned left-right eye positions, which is not the same as 3D 360deg video that supports any head and eye poses (that requires full light field capture or reconstruction). This means any user viewing a video that rolls their head left or right several degrees will get a headache pretty fast. I'm sick of people claiming '3D' 360 video is the same as full 6DOF tracked VR - it is not.
</high horse>
That's true... but I think it just depends on the market. I lived one year each in Mountain View and in Hillsboro, OR (a Portland suburb near Intel's campus), and while Mountain View was competitive, Hillsboro had oodles of nice, modern places ready right away. I ended up in modern (< 20 yr) construction in both cases.

I'd still say average housing quality in both markets is much better than in Pittsburgh, at least in the neighborhoods near CMU (Squirrel Hill, Shadyside, etc). My current place was built in 1916, still has knob-and-tube wiring, and I considered it a good find. I'm moving to a 1950s building in August and I'm looking forward to having enough electrical capacity for a microwave.

All that said -- everyone should still consider moving here -- it's a beautiful city, with a lot of culture, and the housing market will eventually come to a better equilibrium!
The big stay big: 35 unicorns raised $12.6B in Q1 2016
As I expected someone would, small world :) Just to clarify though I moved to VM based setup after that and had issues due to the hardware being weak.
Katherine Johnson: The Girl Who Loved to Count
(I'm not an orbits expert, but I do work for Planet Labs, and we're sending up piles of cubesats.)

The actors puting objects up in orbit are trying hard to be good neighbours these days. Our cubesat missions are designed such that should we completely lose control over a satellite the orbit will naturally degrade and re-enter the atmosphere on a ~10 year time scale. Our hardware deployed from the ISS is gone in less than two years. It's my understanding that it is required of us (and most groups in general) to plan our missions such that they will naturally de-orbit within 25 years.
wait, did they gave an entire DB dump away? 12M users?!
And one of them even grudgingly admitted decades later that the studio had been right in not letting him play.

I bought one of their post albums where they wrote their own songs and played their own instruments. Sorry, it's just awful compared with the studio produced albums. Nobody remembers those songs for good reason.
Bot Engine is not tied to the Facebook platform.
It exposes an HTTPS API that you can use from anywhere. Slack, the command-line, Messenger, a VR app, etc.
We don't make assumptions on your platform.

https://wit.ai/docs/http/20160330#converse-link
The simplest argument is that we will only ever need more power, and nothing else can deliver. Burning shit is about as primitive as it gets, and that nets us a lot more power than wind or solar ever will. They're good supplemental power sources...but they will never meet our current needs, let alone what's right around the corner.

So...electric cars are growing now. You know how much power it takes to charge one of those suckers? The battery matrix in a Tesla can power the average household for a couple of days. These things are going to triple our power needs.

In the end: human potential is directly tied to our ability to harness energy and apply it. Fossil fuels enabled us to greatly reduce the need for human labor, but already we're limited by them. And clinging to them (or futilely pretending we can ever reduce our global energy needs) only hinders progress toward a better tomorrow.

Nuclear energy's "drawbacks" are incredibly overblown. Waste fuel is compact (weights sound impressive, but uranium and its isotopes are incredibly dense and take up very little space) and more importantly is wasted. Fuel shouldn't be wasted, it should be reprocessed with breeder reactors and reused. And if coal plants' waste was all contained in a convenient solid block instead of the atmosphere, we wouldn't even be discussing replacing it.

Anyway...if you want to see a good documentary on the subject, check out "Pandora's Promise." It's told from the perspective of several figures who were anti-nuclear activists before becoming "enlightened," so to speak and realizing they were mislead.
"undemocratic centralization of power"

Who is centralizing power undemocratically?
DevOps Library
https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7443-the_price_of_dissent

Everyone should see this talk. Hatred tends to evolve into many types of nasty tactic; this isn't limited to drone strikes, and it isn't limited to Pakistan and Afghanistan.

"Muslims are the canaries in the mine."
It's amusing to see "LEO" referenced twice in one day on HN, where the first time it was mentioned earlier[0] someone confused it for 'low earth orbit' when the author meant 'law enforcement officer'.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11479709