skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the Waterloo region, which is partway through a multi-year light rail construction project. The line is really relatively simple and not all that long (19km), but took over a decade of fighting to get approved, costs almost $1B, and has been a huge undertaking to build (not to mention all the nonsense from Bombardier, who are supposed to be building the trains).

But it's been fascinating to compare this to how inner-city rail projects went in the early 20th century— basically some company would get permission, lay down a bunch of track in the middle of the street, and be running trains within a few months. You see similar stuff with early electrification projects, where basically whoever could just come along and string their wires between lamp posts.

I totally see that that's insane, and we can't have a wild west with our infrastructure, but I do also wonder if there's not a middle ground that would allow somewhat more agility with these things.
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I've been a Black Metal fan since first hearing Bathory in the early 90s [1] and have met maybe one other black metal fan ever in person outside of a show.

Two major stories that I have about Black Metal scene that might be illuminating.

I had heard through the grapevine that there was an obscure black metal festival deep in the woods somewhere. After digging around I found the Shadowoods metal festival [2] which turned out to be an invite only philosophically anarchist inspired one night show, now a two day festival of the most obscure "kvlt" black metal bands around. I never got the chance to go but from what I understand the best of the genre comes out to play and members of the top black metal bands in the world come to attend.

The other story is about people's reaction to black metal. I typically wear a metal shirt around, even as an undershirt and whenever someone sees one they often inquire about it. I'm even wearing my favorite Bathory shirt prominently on TechCrunch [3]! Anyway someone came up and asked me about Bathory and I enthusiastically went into the whole tale about countess Bathory bathing in blood [4] and why it inspired the band. At the end of the story the person looked totally horrified and basically turned and walked away. Typically happens when describing any black metal band.

[1] https://youtu.be/OJeLYvc7sXk?t=8m46s

[2] https://shadowwoodsmetalfest.com/about/

[3] https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/batch17...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory
Until they aren't.
You seem to be implying that they are violating privacy just for the heck of it. That's ignoring the very obvious value (even to customers) of this specific type of data. As the other commenter mentioned, knowing where humans choose to be dropped off when heading to a specific location is of obvious value.
I have always wondered about whether there might be some kind of similar 'island of stability' with strange particles. Since particles come in three flavours, the normal kind, then ones made of strange/charm quarks and then top/bottom quarks, you could feasibly make 'strange atoms' with the strange equivalents of protons, neutrons and electrons. The same could even be done for top/bottom atoms. As far as I know, though, the half-lives of these strange family particles are too short to let them hang around for long enough. However, if we collect enough together to make e.g. strange-carbon or strange-uranium, maybe the fact that they are bound together as an atomic structure would stabilise them? It's really hard to find anything out about this, as most discussions of strange matter are about things like replacing the electron in a hydrogen atom with a muon, not replacing every particle in a larger atom with its strange counterpart...
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I get a lot of hate from the metal community for the fact that CC is my favorite band of all time. Apparently they are too pop. Talk about a bubble.

Doesn't matter, Butchered at Birth is the best DM album of all time IMO.
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(Uber engineer here)

The data is used for (or can be used for) a number of practical and important purposes. These are some examples of what we do as well as what we could do with such data:

- Fighting fraud

- Improving "suggested pickup" locations

- Improvements around POOL (we'd rather suggest a location that's easy to pick up from than one that's unsafe)

- Figuring out what side of the street you end up on (we can do a better job of choosing a route if we know you're able to get out of the car safely)

- Optimizing pickups and dropoffs around events or certain times of the day or week (Caltrain riders: imagine if we suggested pickups at 5th and Townsend instead of 4th and King during rush hour. Much easier to find your driver and prevents congestion)

- Dropping riders off closer to the "correct" entrance to their building

- Dropping riders off in a location that's easier for the driver to depart from without making the rider walk too far (e.g., instead of getting trapped in a weird road or parking lot)

- Analyze where riders ask drivers to make stops mid-trip and make better experiences around that.

As far as trust and safety goes, we can avoid charging you if your driver was looking for you at the wrong location and gave up. We can better see where you were actually dropped off at, if your driver lies and leaves the app running after you've left the car. Leave your phone in the driver's car, and we can potentially do more than just put you in touch with them.

Individual users' data is very closely guarded internally. It's immensely difficult to look at user data without specific access. Overwhelmingly, this data is queried in aggregate and fed into machine learning systems. The risk of abuse is exceptionally low.
Going to need drivers for each of those trucks after you exit the interstate.
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> Dr. Griffiths noted that patients received extensive support, which may have deepened and secured their life-affirming transformations.

> “People will take psilocybin at a rave or at Burning Man” — the art and performance desert festival — “but the effect,” he said, “evaporates like water running through their hands.”

It certainly doesn't hurt to have a trip sitter or to discuss the experience with someone understanding, but this is a completely unwarranted conclusion. It seems like Dr. Griffiths needs it to not have an effect outside of a clinical setting, which is just so unfortunate. I would rate doing mushrooms as one of the single most important decisions of my life.
iOS gets close to what you want. Apps have to ask for specific permission for specific reasons (location, background download, etc), otherwise it just get killed after a few minutes.

Security is always at odds with convenience. It's easy to require a pop up to ask for permission every time and have user getting so used to these pop ups that they just automatically tap "yes"
Most DOS/DDOS attacks you need to stop as soon as possible, so the kit to do it has to be on the edge, and they don't want to be doing 'who is this for and what plan are they on' provisioned onto all of their edge kit - they may as well just nuke everything that looks bad.
Oh come now.
I like the small function practice. However, I'd like a better to organize my code or be able to hide the extra small functions so that they are not visible when I'm scanning a file to get an overview. I could place them at the bottom of the file but I prefer to keep them close to where they're called.
In the BSD community this awareness of other operating systems is seen as a strength and pride. It's telling that Linux fans see it as weakness.

Subsystems are now done with up front design and some degree of consensus in the BSDs, closer to the cathedral and commercial development than the bazaar of Linux. This necessarily means we are not usually at the forefront of cutting edge features. It doesn't necessarily mean we don't have features before Linux; if the idea exists in academia or other OSes enough to reason about it's reasonable to propose, design, and build. Netmap is a good example. The new FreeBSD selectable TCP stacks are another, where we avoid incremental growing pains and baggage. When these designed features hit, they tend to be coherent, usable, obvious, and lasting.

My opinion of Linux features is that little due diligence was done, especially public acknowledgement of inspiration and why one route was taken over another. For instance, the Linux KPIs are littered with questionable decisions made in isolation. epoll and the various file notification calls are examples. That attitude manifested strangely up to userland through IPC/DBus with the continued systemd drama.

A little bit of logical inference.. there are financial drivers vendors are fleeing the Linux kernel in preference of userspace (i.e. Intel's DPDK and SPDK). One is licensing, which is not an issue with BSD nor userland. The other is the rate and quality of KPI churn. Linux KPIs break all the time, switch licenses all the time, and it is a general nuisance to maintain a vendor tree whether it is open or closed source. The good side is that hopefully drivers and products end up open source. The bad side is, in many modern usages, that does not happen because GPL is not relevant to hosted services, as well as low motivation/quality/incentive/license violation for IoT type things. The BSDs start with no pretense of GPL nor flippant APIs, so it is a lot more comfortable to consume and build great products.
It's different in that there are a lot less slaves and warfare involved in the production of these new products.
Support is a great way, everything will get to the right people.
What would we need to see from Illumos for it to qualify as being great like Solaris was?
I agree. Apps shouldn't be able to just run background processes willy-nilly, and I hate how that drains my battery for no good reason.
Would you be willing to elaborate a little on your career path? Sounds really interesting.
There's no evidence that Uber makes a shit-ton of money. What evidence exists, points the other way:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-deliver...

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/12/can-uber-ever-deliver...
It all depends on the starting time.
Based on some arms-length interactions with the USGS, my impression is that they use ESRI stuff for basically everything spatial. Ditto for my city I think. The extent of the ESRI monopoly/entrenchment in government is maddening to me considering the licensing costs, the high quality of the open-source alternatives, and the fact that I'm footing the bill. When I was taking some GIS classes at a public university I wondered out loud if the classes would be about GIS or about "using ESRI products". When I inquired about having students learn to do the work with QGIS there was some hemming and hawing and "well we really don't know much about open source tools" and I got handed an install image of ArcGIS. I feel like I paid about 1/2 of my tuition to learn GIS fundamentals and the other 1/2 to pay for training on ESRI products.
This is exactly the kind of application that the data is going to be used for.
That's actually a kinder description of the baby formula thing than I'd heard. At some point in the '80s, at least, they were giving out a couple months' worth of formula to new third-world mothers, knowing that their natural lactation would stop in that time and they'd be forced to buy more at full price or let the baby starve.
Yes! IIRC unions provide campaign funding roughly equivalent to the (very right wing) Chamber of Commerce. Unions support liberal think tanks, which develop progressive policies and support the next generation of progressive journalists and policy analysts. More than money, they provide coordination. It's easy for 100 rich dudes to get together and drive policy. It's hard for 200 million working people. That's what a labor movement is for.
May I ask what has changed in you?
IMHO the best way to become "the person with enable on the core routers of a noteworthy ASN" is to start from tier 1 ISP help desk and work your way upwards, while studying stuff like optics, starting with CCNA level IP networking and incrementally getting into more complicated things, and focusing exclusively on *BSD/Linux for all server platforms while completely disregarding the existence of Windows.

For people working their way up through the ranks at an ISP, it is really helpful to spend as much time cross training and working with different groups of people, responsible for different things. Spend enough time in massive-scale hosting/colocation/datacenter operations that you're familiar with how to properly set up a facility for thousands of 1U size servers, but also spend time with OSP fiber people, learn the fundamentals of high capacity PTP microwave links. Spend time with the sysadmins who run back end infrastructure like large scale DNS, SMTP and IMAP servers, billing systems. And of course, all the time, continue to increase your IP/layer 3 networking knowledge until you're comfortable on something like an ASR9010 or MX960.
Bit rot isn't supposed to set in for at least a decade on spinning rust drives. That's a hell of a power outage.
> Individual users' data is very closely guarded internally. It's immensely difficult to look at user data without specific access. Overwhelmingly, this data is queried in aggregate and fed into machine learning systems. The risk of abuse is exceptionally low.

But so you're saying it's possible? Somebody with high enough access at Uber might be able to stalk an ex-girlfriend and follow her home? Getting into trouble for it of course, but it wouldn't matter after a murder-suicide? Statistically improbable I know, but that's the sort of thing that people worry about
You expect a director at Google to post their comp? Seriously?
It's a potentially very scary time for minorities. The president sets the tone of the country through their actions. A president being anti-immigrant could bring that same quality out in others...
Along with the usual 'we are out of ipv4 space' - If you are in the IoT space you are dependent on IPv6. And if you are AWS you may be losing customers who are rolling out IoT infrastructure because of your lack of IPv6 support. http://www.computerworld.com/article/3071625/internet-of-thi...
We needed IPv6 support five years ago. IPv6 is so vital because without it, we'll see the cost of public IPs skyrocket. I'm surprised it hasn't considering two of the places I worked for in the past few years had trouble purchasing IPs for some of their larger data centre offerings.

It's sorta like the network neutrality argument, except you're talking about limits on who can offer services to everyone vs those with newer IPv6 devices and ISPs. You can end up with two different Internets.
This is actually a useful experimental technique in biology. This wikipedia page isn't the best written, but is a good summary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabiosis#Parabiotic_experime...
It's a shame your original post was flagged and killed, because it's right on the money.
After a few years around Gartner, Deloitte, and Accenture I have learned that consulting reports are usually PR thinly disguised as analysis.
In the vast majority of cases, you cannot use proxying/routing to reach an IPv6 address. If you don't have IPv6 yourself, then any attempt to communicate with another IPv6 address simply fails.

It's sort of like asking "Why should I connect to the Internet, if everyone I know already has a telephone?"
Any chance this is open source? Neeto seems super awesome, and, well, neeto!

It's not that I don't trust you, it's just that I trust me more.
The data is used for (or can be used for) a number of practical and important purposes.

so.. uh.. (eyebrow wag) what else do you use it for that you didn't enumerate?

The risk of abuse is exceptionally low.

Except, of course, events where you and I disagree about what abuse is. Like tracking journalists around for shits and giggles.
No, what you say doesn't make sense.

I will point out one thing that requires renewables and electric cars to be encouraged together: electric cars that charge when solar or wind energy is available can help smooth consumption to match output. This works easiest when cars are long-range (i.e. don't have to charge every day) and can plug in at both the solar peak and wind peak (day and night, respectively.)
Pretty scary. It reminds me of the girl who went to Amsterdam on a school trip, took shrooms and jumped off a building, killing herself. It resulted in fresh shrooms being banned for sale there.
The key word is "profits". Uber has certainly never made those.
Great read.

However, he lost me at

> Googley to stand up for diversity and inclusion, such as protesting against binary gendering on toilets

Is it Google's business? Why should Google be involved?
Why cater to 0.6% of the population, at the expense of convenience for the 99.4%?

At my last job we had "non-binary", "all-inclusive" bathrooms. They're just awkward.
Not the stalls themselves, but having to share the bathroom with females, who would also rather have their separate, female bathroom.
> Why do you want back in on software development?

Why play Poker when you can write some AI to do it for you? ;)

No, that is against online sites terms, but I do wonder how often it happens. It's certainly not the kind of thing the sites would want to own up to.
so this will disable location and all other data for uber if its not in the foreground?
You shouldn't trust anyone ;) Which is why Neeto has local encryption. But I would like to make it open source, I'm just not sure how that would play out, especially if I want to monetize it.
There is something very powerful you can do:

1. Stop using uber. Delete it. There is Lyft and Juno (in select markets).

2. Tell your friends about the dangers of using Uber.

You can make a profound change by voting with your pocket book. Lastly, believe it or not, a lot of your friends look to you for tech advice. Be vocal.
It is unfortunate that your jurisdiction does not have good samaritan laws.
You mention it but I just want to reinforce it. I don't go to PH at all but I see the issue on HN all the time. People writing a comment and suddenly the "at [company], we bla bla..."
As things get more rural, and literally more wild west, it's possible to bring down the cost of OSP fiber infrastructure significantly. There's ISPs in rural western states building GPON networks along roadways/right of way (trenched/duct and aerial) with crews that consist of basically two guys and a bucket truck with a spool on it, and a $3000 fusion splicer from china.
> You seem to be implying that they are violating privacy just for the heck of it.

Why not both? Why not collect all the information you possibly can, whether or not you immediately see obvious value to it, and then find ways to justify it later?
Analysis of 2M Hijacked Passwords (in Python)
In addition to created diamonds, there are other stones that are different from and in some aspects better than diamonds.

The best one seems to be Moissanite, which also has the rather pedestrian name of silicon carbide. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moissanite

Here's a strong opinion about why diamonds suck and you should go with alternatives: http://diamondssuck.com/

Lastly, a more dispassionate analysis: http://www.doamore.com/diamonds-vs-moissanite/

Moissanite can be 90% cheaper than equivalent diamond, not just 30%.
> No, that doesn't happen.

hmm, not really, there was one time, my nap took so long that I had to pay almost $100 late fee to my daughter's preschool...
It doesn't change anything, but as the Uber engineer above lists, they have rational reasons for wanting it.

I just don't have any rational reason to want to give it to them, so I'll be disabling GPS entirely. But I've mostly stopped using them anyway - the scummy corporate behavior bugged me, but not enough to boycott. And then a driver nearly physically attacked me over, as best I can tell, mishearing something (although I'm not really sure). Those combined, along with a general dislike of the gig economy and I've already mostly ditched them - Uber feels somewhere between sketchy and icky to me. Used them once in the last ~6 months, when the Lyft app forgot my password and it was late.
"Besides, i don't have the money right now to buy a car (also i don't want to)."

Same, I can't wait for self-driving cars to take over so I can safely ride my bike around ha! Australia, particularly dangerous place for cyclists.
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My guess is that the effect of the inhibitors is not linear with concentration.

Imagine that the effective (deleterious) dose of these inhibitors is, say, 10% of the amount found in old mice. So an equal exchange between two mice is enough to provide an effective dose to the young mouse, but not enough to eliminate an effective dose to the old mouse.