skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can reject hypothesis 2 simply by seeing what percentage of people who've tried the drug have a permanently diminished fear or anxiety response. I don't know of any official figures but from anecdata, I'd say that they don't.
I definitely agree that one does not need to be in a clinical setting in order for a psychedelic experience to be very positive and life changing in the long term. However, I do think the proper set and setting helps increase the chance of such a result.

Unfortunately, all too many people take psychedelics (and other drugs) frivolously, to "party", or even self-destructively, in many settings which are not very conducive towards positive transformation, and surrounded by people who wouldn't understand or might even react negatively towards a tripping person. Many people also trip without experienced sitters, and don't have any kind of plan or even intention of integrating the experience after they have it. They also rarely get therapy before or after the experience.

As a result, it is very common for people to have unproductive trips, or have difficulty integrating the really beneficial ones in the long term. So while it's still possible, I think it's less likely than if you are in a very positive, supportive environment, and being guided by experienced sitters who know how to encourage the best experience possible, and will do therapy before and after, and help you integrate what you learned.
It's worth noting that if Uber accidentally started collecting location data from every rider's phone in perpetuity while they're not on-trip, it would be a very big problem for Uber. That's an absolutely ridiculous amount of data and would easily overwhelm the service. You wouldn't have to worry about NSLs because the data centers would be a fiery mess of steel and silicon. Even if they weren't, the data is overwhelmingly not useful for anyone at Uber (how many hours of "sleeping at home" worth of data points could ever be used?), and it would be destroyed because it's a giant waste of resources.

Uber is big, but not that big. You're already volunteering your location for the service (by being in a car tracked by Uber), this simply adds a small margin of data at the end of the trip.
Have you never been in a place with unisex toilets?

In Australia, many offices, pubs and clubs have 'unisex toilets' which are basically just a whole bunch of small individual stalls with toilets + basin. Most of the time it isn't necessarily about being progressive, just cost saving and practicality.
Azure Functions has awesome support for lightweight, linqpad-style csharp (without the namespace indent). I hope this eventually makes it to Lambda :)
Can you set it to never, set it to always while using it, and set it to never when the ride ends?
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... except Uber, Google, carriers, etc, are not oppressive.
It's a tough one -- I want to be able to opt out, but I still want Uber to drop me off at the front desk not the mailing address... based on knowing that 90% of other users had to walk the same 100 meters immediately.
I'm not saying that didn't happen but it makes zero sense. The user chooses a destination and the app tracks where the driver is so it's reasonable to assume if the driver got within 100 meters of the destination the ride ended within 1-2 minutes of that time. They should just pad by 1-2 minutes and then assume the ride ended.

In fact they could make it the exception not to end it by sending a "How was the ride" message to both driver and customer and they both have to pick "Not finished" for it to continue.
Vs. our land borders. This is going to ake for an interesting showdown given that most ports are in major metro areas.
Judging by the conversations I've had on HN, a lot of people here will be surprised by this. Personally I'm slowly moving away from the cloud, it simply doesn't give me enough options to do what I want with my data.

The most likely effect phrases like "cloud based" and "web app" have is to make me lose interest.
Read you resume. Un-fuckin-real. wow.
Can you manually Force Stop the Uber app to avoid this as a somewhat-awful workaround?
I mentioned Estonia before. So far as I know, their level of protection is the same as in US - restricting speech requires imminent danger stemming from that speech. So no political speech, no matter how hateful, can be restricted, unless it is inciting imminent violence. It also has fairly lax libel laws, which is also a benefit

Geographic proximity has both upsides and downsides - the downside is that something that affects US is also more likely to affect Canada than any other nation (except, perhaps, Mexico).

As far as threat consideration, you have a point there - but I think that having a distributed network of server mirrors is part of mitigating any such sudden threats against any particular one. In a sense, something like a Russian invasion can probably be treated similarly to, say, a possibility of a major earthquake on the West Coast disrupting infrastructure.

But yes. I do see how Canada is probably the easiest to set up for someone in US. If they just want something done right now, as immediate mitigation, and consider better options later, it makes sense.
> But so you're saying it's possible?

People with access to hardware can probably do anything if they really want to. People at the bank can remove all your money in the account by going directly into the database as well.
First thing that comes to mind is that live video that poor lady filmed while her boyfriend was sitting in the car next to her being shot by police. It was a very important piece of news. How will Facebook or AI prevent flagging that video?

> “These are questions that go way beyond whether we can develop AI,” said LeCun (FB's director of AI research). “Tradeoffs that I’m not well placed to determine.”

I don't want to be alarmist, but this this is symptomatic of something that's a little bit terrifying. This reminds me of essays I've read about the development of nuclear weapons. Lots of the people who developed those things said things like "Oh, I'm just the guy who built the bomb, I'm not well-placed to determine whether or not it gets used".

I can't directly say that this sort of attitude is going to directly lead to rogue AI wiping out humanity, but you have to be able to see how this sort of thing is a little worrying.

A quote comes to mind:

""The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards."

When you draw a demarcation between the people developing AI and the people deciding on the trade-offs...?

I'm usually idealistic and hopeful (I think), but I thought this needed to be said.
Unless I'm misunderstanding the validation set, I'm skeptical of the ability of this classifier to tag unlabeled tracks, given that it is only being trained and tested on tracks which are already known to belong to one of the few trained genres. I'd be curious to see the performance if you were to additionally test on tracks which are not any of (Hardcore, Dubstep, Electro, Classical, Soundtrack and Rap), with a correct prediction being no tag.
The old joke is if you charge more than your competitor, you're price gouging. If you charge less, you're anticompetitive, if you charge the same, you're colluding. Basically, government can arbitrarily terminate any business it so wishes.
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That sounds fine. The original comment made it sound like people were shuffled around by management with no regard for what their skills are, that angular devs would be move to c sockets.
This is just a style nitpick, but there a are a lot of extraneous scrollbars (https://0x0.st/LT1.png). It looks like this was designed on a Mac, where overflow: scroll works the same as overflow: auto and scrollbars take up no extra space in the layout, however on non-Mac, overflow: scroll always draws a scrollbar, even when it isn't needed.
Just being qualified does suffice.

It's the definition of qualified that needs to change.
100% agree, a great example of this would be with chocolate chip cookies. If you halve the brown sugar, white sugar, and reduce the chocolate chips by 75%, you end up with a much better tasting cookie. I can't go back to eating full sugar cookies, they're just too sweet.
Ah interesting, thanks for pointing that out. It was indeed designed on a Mac. Will get that fixed.
So you think it's fine for me to type out a nicely formatted wall of text on a desktop that mobile users have to scroll to read?
That's a separate option.

Settings -> Privacy -> Location Services -> Uber -> Never
There is, but only if you update apps in iTunes on your computer instead of directly on your iPhone.

Basically, update the app in iTunes (which will send the old IPA package (which is still signed to your Apple ID) into the Trash / Recycle Bin, then connect your iPhone to your computer and sync to replace the old app with the new one. You’ll still have the old IPA package in your computer’s Trash / Recycle Bin, so if you ever need to downgrade to the older version of the app, just move it out of the Trash / Recycle Bin, delete the newer version of the app in iTunes, and then double-click on the old IPA package to have it open in iTunes. Then, you can just connect your iPhone to your computer and sync.
I was more thinking of the ip6 wall of shame than VPS providers, really...

Strange that GCE doesn't support it, given their usage elsewhere.
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Mel scale spectrograms are the approach taken in a research paper which uses roughly the same technique as is described in this post: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19706734/paper_pt.pdf
I code also, but a few random conversations is not going to ruin my whole day's work.

It's the constant, unrelenting, distracting chatter and noise that stops me from getting any work done.
For a defined 3-month internship where your primary goal is to suck up as much experience as possible at a young age during said internship, I think you can give insane work hours a pass and just accept that they're making the most of the short-term opportunity. Just don't let it become habit in a fulltime job and you'll be sweet.
It's like something out of the hitchhiker's guide.

A group of talented, well compensated engineers are developing a machine to be offended on my behalf. Hopefully it will also generate a sternly worded letter for the offender.

Yesterday's science fiction is today's technology. I just didn't imagine that particular book being such rich fodder for realization.
IMO, release a version that doesn't do as much. Don't include the account system, and the local encryption.

I've shown it to a few friends and they said they would pay, even if it was open source.
Imperfections can be added
Apple has become more restrictive about this. Out of the box, apps from unidentified developers are not allowed to run. The user has to explicitly allow them. (For macOS Sierra it has become even more cumbersome to run these: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/243687/allow-applic...)

I think it should work good for non-IT users. But for developers who depend on a lot of FOSS, this creates a problem. Does anybody know if Apple allows OSS developers to have free accounts on Mac Appstore?
> Uber hopes to eliminate the most frustrating part of the experience: the game of phone tag that both the rider and driver play when trying to coordinate the pickup spot.

This makes no sense to me. I tell them the pickup point so they don't need to know where I am since I already told them where I want to be picked up.

Conversely I found it very frustrating they didn't (used to?) take destination into account. Example: I want to go south. They should arguably prefer drivers that are north of me. Instead I'm just guessing they just ping all drivers within some range. Some of those drivers are south of me. In a city like SF that can end up adding 5-10 minutes to the wait because they may have to go 3-6 long blocks around to get north of me so they can go south AND so they can pick me up on the south bound side of the road.

It requires no GPS data from me to know that. It only requires that I enter where I want to be picked up and where I want to go.

I suppose it's possible I'm waiting on the north bound side even if I want to go south. Maybe they could ask "we'll pick you up on the south bound side. Ok?" or something to that effect.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13079965
> 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?

Because it's non-trivial and it costs a lot of money to do that, in terms of engineers' salaries, storage, etc.
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If data exists inside an organization, it is always, by definition, possible that someone can abuse it.
Agreed. Don't let uni just be a gateway to employment. It's also a really good young adult experience where you can form social networks trivially easy that will serve you well into the future. It's your last hurrah of the innocence of no constant commitments and obligations before fulltime work too.
Or a romantic interest. Or any one of a million other reasons. Because no one has ever abused a massive trove of data for such trivial reasons before...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT
I'm assuming you'd like it open source to verify its security? But in that case, how would you know the live neeto.io site is running the same code you see on Github?
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And that is how you end up with a country full of poor obese people, who drive up healthcare costs for everyone.

The American Way: Cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Thanks for being open and sharing. This all seems really reasonable to me.
iOS does that?

You can set location permission for App with "Never/While Using/Always".

You can disable Background App refresh for individual App. iOS App didn't even have ability to run in background in previous version.
Your haughty attitude toward privacy is really chilling. If Uber hasn't received a NSL [1] I would be astounded, and your employer doesn't have a great track record [2]. Please think hard about the world you are helping to create.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

[2] http://www.buzzfeed.com/johanabhuiyan/uber-is-investigating-...
Thanks for the insight into what you (may) actually do with the data! There are so many companies demanding intrusive amounts of personal data that it's easy to become cynical.

All of the points that you've listed here would work just as well with anonymized data. Obviously if users are being picked up or dropped off at their house (for instance) then making every journey truly anonymous would be impossible without damaging the data, but you could still strip out explicitly identifying metadata. Are you able to tell us what sort of measures are taken in this regard?
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> A group of talented, well compensated engineers are developing a machine to be offended on my behalf

and their leader openly states that he isn't well-placed to make the necessary trade-offs
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>>> Want to use python3? That's cool, use the flexible environment. But it doesn't support taskqueues or many other features.

As far as I know there is no planned support for Python 3 in the standard env. I've been using GAE since 2010 but I'm a little uncomfortable continuing to writing new apps in Python 2.7 when they have a clear end of life date set now.

Given it might take you guys a year or two to support 3 after you decide to do it, then a year or two for me to port my apps over to python 3, my apps might be running for a while past the end of life date for Python 2.7.

Besides, I can't just keep writing 2.7 apps forever, so either I you guys have to update the SE to 3, or I need to start evaluating and comparing the flexible environment to what everybody else offers.
I mean, at the end of the day, there's someone that can SSH into some server if they were really determined. There's logging and auditing that happens, though, so you'd almost certainly get caught. Could you craft some sort of perfect crime to avoid detection? It would be super hard, but there's no universe with perfectly secure software. It's a big system, and there are thousands of moving parts, and the likelihood of you actually getting very far is insanely low.

But that's the same story with that one engineer at Google that has SSH access to the server with the keys to the storage cluster for Gmail. Or the person that writes queries for the Hive cluster that manages Cortana queries at Microsoft. Or the person that writes the API layer that sits in front of the order history service at Amazon.

There's a million ways an engineer at any big company could abuse their powers. But we put safeguards in place, we watch each other, and we do our best to serve our users as best we can. I say this in a general sense, not specifically to Uber. It comes down to trust.
I love reading accounts like this. As someone who had an internship in high school, I'm always happy to hear what other people's experiences were going into and out of the process. I think my immediate reaction is that Google creates an environment that simply doesn't exist at most other places.

I interned at two companies in the defense industry. You could argue that our experiences were different because of security, but I disagree. The environment you described sounds like an absolute heaven: you have challenging, fun work, and have extremely well placed and delivered benefits. At both of my internships, the problems were hard. They weren't particularly fun to solve so much as they "had" to be solved and I was the only one to solve them. I got similar rewarding experiences completing tasks, though everything I did had to be "on the clock." As soon as we stopped working, we were expected to stop billing or move to some other task.

The offices were dull, boring, and expensive to spend time in. Your internship had availability of food and technology that kept you happy. Neither of mine did this. At one internship, we had a free snack room. That's it. If we wanted to eat lunch at the cafeteria at my second internship, we could at great personal cost. We were stuck with "hand me down" hardware that was a menagerie of hardware pulled from random places throughout the building. If you were given a bad keyboard on day one, too bad -- it was yours forever.

I complain like this because you had the exact opposite of the experience I had. Your experience is an irregularity, at least compared to what I've seen. This all comes down to culture, I think. The Google corporate culture is modern, focused on employee happiness, and focused on diversity. Things like getting your own hardware choices and free food go a long way to adding goodwill, and failing to take basic measures like that shows what I consider to be a lack of caring.

I wish more companies would copy Google on how they treat their employees and interns. Even if it might seem a bit cheesy to go after the low hanging fruit, employee happiness goes a long way to building a thriving, mutually beneficial relationship between an employee and a company.

Seeing a post like this makes me feel like my internship hosts haven't cared in the slightest. That's pretty painful, if I'm brutally honest.
It's rather easy to remove watermarks from PDFs with just UNIX tools, btw. (Of course it involves regular expressions.)
A funny quip, but since it seems like you're missing the point: what's the business impact of the choice, or the existence/absence of IPv6 support in a hosting provider?

If I'm running a small startup that's available as a website, how does IPv6 support matter to me? (Assuming that I can otherwise get IPv4 addresses for hosting my site, which I can.)
I don't think this problem is bound by absolute frequency resolution, the tightest distance between two notes on a typical piano is ~2hz and if you assume a doubling between octaves you're at <90 notes. The temporal changes and relative chord progressions probably give more info.
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Well if something doesn't make sense, I'd appreciate if you were able to point out exactly what it is that doesn't, since I took the time to write you a detailed response. Otherwise it just comes across as dismissive and honestly a little bit insulting.

What you are talking about here is what is called vehicle-to-grid (V2G) load balancing. That is actually a technology that is really interesting and exciting possibility for the future, but is just that. So I guess that irony is that you're requirement that these two things be encouraged together is the one thing I can see that doesn't make sense at the moment - V2G is still honestly in development. There is a lot of scepticism about how practical it will be in practice, i.e. IIRC the efficiency of each grid->car->grid cycle is only about 60%.
>> The risk of abuse is exceptionally low.

I call bullshit. This coming from the same guys who were mapping one night stands using ride data? What were you guys studying there. Fornicating habits of young adults in large metropolitans?

http://www.whosdrivingyou.org/blog/ubers-deleted-rides-of-gl...

I almost forgot about the time you guys were tracking journalists.

Uber has a reputation and history of being a "shady" company.