skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> which is that data used for and which could it be used for currently, and what's planned?

I don't know specific programs that are in place or upcoming, not my jam.

> Does this mean that you actually do keep my individual GPS data and it could be looked up later?

Trip location data is attached to users. You can look it up yourself on the Uber website (riders.uber.com). With regard to data collected from rider devices, I don't know the technical details but I assume it's not living in aggregate.

At the end of the day, we're an engineering- and data-driven company. Pickups and dropoffs are overwhelmingly the most painful parts of the average Uber ride, and we know startlingly little about them: that's what this initiative is about. We want to make things better for our users, and overwhelmingly, things like this do lead to improvements. Whether you trust what we do with the five minutes of data is up to you. I'm not here to speak about our character, though I certainly wouldn't be around if I thought Uber is a bad company.
A few things:

* Ask the kids what they want
* Pairs
* Small projects (small wins)
* Outside mentors (teens, local programmers, etc)
* take a page from https://www.recurse.com/ and reimagine it for kids
Tallinn, Estonia. Fits all, if you even want colder Nordic countries are there, though the cost of living increases a lot.
Just uninstall the app after you get your ride, and reinstall it next time you need it.
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The use case for Angular 2 is super hardcore enterprise. Lots of developers, very large multimillion dollar projects, and safety being a top concern.

Everything must be done in a very standard way, and it assumes you need a bunch of stuff that only a fairly big application will need. Testing is very highly emphasized, with components being forced to be written in a way that is testable.

This guy clearly doesn't know what Angular is doing under the hood, meaning there is a bunch of stuff going on in his app that he doesn't understand, which is causing him lots of bugs and heartache. Many a time developers have built Angular apps without understanding what they are doing and ending up with a flaming pile of garbage that needs to be completely rewritten. However if you know what you are doing or hire someone that knows what they are doing to set up an application for you, I think the framework does have its advantages.

Having said all of this I really disliked my time working in Angular, with things like the terrible docs and lots of hidden esoteric knowledge needed being big flaws that they should address. For my company it made sense though.
There already is, it's called De Beers. It's exactly because of the artificially inflated price that the mining practices are damaging.
Really? I don't see it all the time, and I think a little bit of referring to your own company/startup in relevant contexts is ok.

If people overdo it, we ask them to stop (and in extreme cases ban them), so feel free to email hn@ycombinator.com if someone is overdoing it.
...or the people willing to put that much effort into "gaming" the system as you call it are those most likely to put in the effort to succeed and thrive on the job, and are therefore precisely who Google is looking for...
What is "psychological arbitrage"?
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Suggested pickup locations are a feature we have in SF:

https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/08/uber-suggested-pickup-poin...

All it does is help you pick spots near your pickup location that are more easily accessible to drivers.
I applied to CoreOS when they posted here a few months ago. Their recruiter called me and we had a nice talk. He said that he wanted to move me to the next step and meet with their technical lead. They never scheduled that phone call, and when I followed up, he wrote that things are "hectic" and then stopped answering my emails.
Check out riders.uber.com
Except that most people have repeatedly shown they're not capable of making sensible choices. Although that's possibly a secondary/tertiary effect, seeing as how it's so hugely variable over different regions of the world
I agree that trying to figure out alternate timelines in which WW1 didn't take place can be little other than guesswork.
Please don't take personal swipes at people in comments here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13082451 and marked it off-topic.
Sorry about that. We try to give direct feedback to applicants, especially when asked for. I'll share your comment with the lead UI person.
This is correct. I should have been more clear in my original comment. That is my mistake.
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Would be nice. But, then only the carriers and the platform owners get to track you. That's not really fair, either.
If you described 2016 to me in 2004, I'd call you a paranoid lunatic, yet here we are. I'm starting to realize that many of the "alarmist" voices [1] of that time were, in fact, optimistic.

Thinking about what's considered "alarmist" today makes me fear for the future.

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While I love this scenario from a "Trump could abuse his power" narrative, have there been any recorded cases of businesses in America getting "Secret" tax breaks? Seems like it'd be pretty hard to pull off with the IRS.

Sure, maybe they "Bundled" that data it in to some ~other~ lobbied tax deal, but I'd imagine someone would whistle blow that pretty quick in this post-snowden world?
Here's a similar case that I was disappointed to see: http://leafo.net/shotslp/2016-12-01_20-43-41.png

They apparently emailed all their paying customers. What a "big surprise."
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As soon as they did that I stopped using Waze. My battery life also improved significantly as a result.
Homeschooling as a right, and a needed practical alternative
Seconded :). Also upvoted every post I found that shown a salary range. Let's make it more appealing for announcers to disclose the offered salary. Please upvote the posts where a salary or salary range is advertised.
> 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.

It is impossible to take your word for it. After so, so many companies have been caught intentionally or unintentionally mishandling user data, there is no reason to believe that Uber is the exception.

An extraordinary claim demands extraordinary proof.
> If you do any of these in good faith

Eh, there's a strong political element to all these things. Political risk can't be ignored. Case in point: Uber versus Airbnb.
Last month when the HN discussion on moissanite came out, I looked around for moissanite polishing tutorial and how to create your own moissanite. To my surprise, there were so limited resources available online
Most places don't have anything, they make requests through their engineer and have no access to the data themselves. I also wanted to consolidate things like property records.

But yeah, everyone who had a set up was ESRI :( Arc works with PostGIS, supposedly.
The idea is that the vertical axis of the spectrogram is basically already an hierarchical set of features (in scale/frequency). Then convolutions on that is a lot like how DenseNets combine hierarchical features.

I agree it seems a little jank, but the features are pretty good - and a lot of network architectures / training techniques are most practiced in an image processing context.
Link/source?
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I've been running a lab-grown diamond company since 2005. I'd be happy to answer any questions in the morning.
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>> Seems like it'd be pretty hard to pull off with the IRS.

Unless the IRS itself is the instrument of abuse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
I would perma-scroll a website with these sorts of lists.
I'm currently automating any workflow that I use daily:

- We have a team call and a team agenda doc, I'm using a hotkey to open a chooser, which has an option "goto team call" that fires up the call window and the doc.

- We deal with prod/dev so I made another item in the chooser "log in to dev server" which opens a chrome incognito window, presses the one password unlock shortcut and then I'm just waiting there to input 2 factor.

As I uncover more of these, I'll be coding them up and using the master chooser to deal with any annoying workflows. :)
Authentication bypass on sso.ubnt.com via subdomain takeover of ping.ubnt.com
From the article:

"Facebook said it also uses automation to process the tens of millions of reports it gets each week, to recognize duplicate reports and route the flagged content to reviewers with the appropriate subject matter expertise."

Everyone who is slightly or highly annoyed by FB's policies surrounding how hard it is to leave their ecosystem should take note. They already get millions of reports each week. So just go around randomly flagging all kinds of harmless videos. I bet in short order you will get banned from their site.

Once that happens, then tell your friends FB banned you for no good reason... IMHO it is the best possible answer to "What? How can you not be on Facebook? Are you crazy?"
Wasn't the public reason for laser etching to prevent conflict diamonds from having a market?
Thanks for putting this together!

I was surprised by the number of jobs near where I live - until I realized they were all in the town of Remote, OR. Sorry that my state abbreviation is also a word.
That Uber could have a bug that sends all location data is irrelevant. Google, Apple, Lyft, Yelp, Foursquare, Microsoft, or any other company that has any app that accesses and transmits location data could have an identical bug that presents an identical problem, and Google and Apple already regularly collect and transmit that data all the time without it being a bug. And being a bug of biblical proportions, it'll get resolved very, very quickly because it would be causing a hugely expensive outage.

Uber also only uses strong TLS for connections, so "the powers that be" will have a heck of a time taking a real heap of gigabits (terabits?) per second of encrypted data and doing anything particularly useful with it.
Why not erythritol? Isomalt can cause some pretty severe gut issues (to which I can personally attest, unfortunately!). It's also still quite calorific (that is, it is metabolised) - erythritol isn't. I can eat it in high quantities to seemingly zero consequence. It's also got an entertaining mouthfeel, where it cools the mouth; so does isomalt, incidentally, but it's not nearly as noticeable.

I have done quite a bit of cooking with erythritol, simply swapping sugar out for it, and it usually works great. Erythritol is only about 70% as sweet, so it can sometimes be necessary to adjust for that, but really, most things are already overly sugary, so it's usually unnecessary.
I had 2 phone screens with Tower and then a scheduled onsite. 2 days before the onsite was supposed to happen they cancelled and then ghosted me.

The whole experience was a frustrating waste of time.
You feeling ok? Discourse here is usually a bit more civilized.
Your misdirection of this topic to discuss a moot point (renewables and EVs being encouraged together) is interesting. I don't think anyone is arguing that both aren't good, but it doesn't have much to say about the question I posed..?

It's great if you're willing to charge your vehicle at off-peak. That's not much of a game-changer, though.

The rest of your post is unnecessarily inflammatory, i.e. dismissing my explanation as a rant. I'm not sure what your problem is but you haven't addressed what at all was incorrect, and all you've done is ignore the question raised and as for a matter of fact, rant on a tangent about something we already agree on.

Your final argument makes no sense. Here was my problem:
> no one address the problem of the supply side of renewables before moving towards a larger consumer base of electric cars.

You don't think increasing renewable energy production is an issue, at all? Oh wait, but you just did! In fact, you actually tried to argue with me about something to do with renewables and EVs being encouraged together. Why..?

The fact is you're clearly confused and going in circles, which doesn't add anything to the conversation. All you've accomplished in this post is to show that you're disagreeable in terms of facts and attitude -- you've posted blatantly wrong information (some nonsense about Tesla's battery production, which many corrected you on immediately), and you write this crap with a condescending attitude.

> You seem to think that the German government is wrong for pointing out to German car-makers that it's stupid to ignore California's mandate, even though you admit that California has a reasonable smog-based reason for having a mandate.

Are you sure you are thinking clearly right now? What I said had to do with localized pollution, and do you see the irony in your post -- you're accusing me of being naive for disagreeing with what (ostensibly, at best) "most people" think is the right thing, yet you're over, and over again suggesting that you know better than the German automakers how to run their business. Further, you're not taking the time to think about what it is I am addressing as a problem: it's not that EVs are bad, but that we need renewables capacity to support EVs (again, why did you seem to want to argue with me on this???). I don't think you really read what I wrote -- I think you skimmed it and some words aroused your emotions and you are responding emotionally.

Anyways, since you didn't respond to my question, I have another one for you: Why do you need to respond like such a smug jerk? Not just here, but in your post history as well. My favourites are the smug hints that you own a Tesla.

The fact is you can disagree with someone without insulting them, and I don't think you even took the time to read what I wrote and understand where I'm coming from (afterall, there are a great number of economists saying these same very things, you can start reading here: http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/12/ec...).
> DNS... Not really sure what to make of this one.

You only have to think back a couple of weeks to recall the DDos that took down Dyn:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12759697

DDos attacks DNS servers are pretty common, not least because a lot of hosting companies regard DNS as low priority.

I have an interest in Amazon's DNS setup, as I use it to provide my own git-based DNS hosting <https://dns-api.com> so I'll be curious to see how this works in practice myself.
I imagine his comments are largely for the sake of appearances; if he says 'just do it' his professional reputation will be shredded.

Since this is not a problem for me, you should Just Do It - that is to say, you should prepare mindfully but you shouldn't wait for some guru/ doctor/ shaman/ who's going to hold your hand and guide you through the experience etc. etc. That can be helpful but you'll get the most out of it by dealing with the existential uncertainty you'll encounter.

Whether a psychedelic experience is merely entertaining or is education or edifying is really up to the person taking it. Dismissing the experience of people who take psychedelics in other contexts than the one the speaker is most familiar with is a very common ego trap among psychedelic newbies.
Lyft engineer here, so bear in mind any bias, but we take account and data privacy very seriously, and have a data privacy team which focuses on these kind of issues.

From where I stand, we have great engineering and product talent. Perception is tricky - I see that we're very agile with (sometimes far) fewer resources, from the view I have.

I'd be glad to dig into the auth issues you ran into if you're able to ping privately with a few more details.
> It is impossible to take your word for it.

I'm not asking you to. If you'd like to come in and interview for a position and eventually see for yourself, though, I'm happy to accept your résumé. :)
It will only be revealed when people stop using the word "machine" and start using the word "algorithm" in any discussions about AI.
"Curious" is not the first word that I would think of to describe that situation.

Terrifying? Horrific? Insidious?
> "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."

Off-topic, but makes me think of the broad line of demarcation between developers and those talking to customers/end users, practiced by so many companies...
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Yep. Adding another lower/zero-calorific sugar but with a positive heat of dissolution (to counter the negative one of isomalt) can really help here.

Similarly, you can choose sugar pairs to promote or suppress crystallisation, as the recipe style requires. This is done by selecting sugars with similar or dissimilar molecular geometry and charge distribution.
The whole point is that you are providing an all or nothing choice for no good reason. Why do you FORCE that instead of letting the user choose to allow location while using the app?
This reminds me of something that Dijkstra used to do and was criticised for. He used to use [sic] a lot to point out tiny errors that others used to make, implying that the other person wasn't competent. In the words of John Backus, "this guy's arrogance takes your breath away" [1]. In Dijkstra's defense, he might have been arrogant but he had much to be arrogant about.

Perhaps when your bona fides aren't so well established as Edsger Dijkstra, randomguy23, you would refrain from doing the same. We all understood what that person meant. Discuss it and move on without resorting to pettiness.

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Remember that not all hacks are made public.
This is a fantastic result of Trump's election. You should have been thinking this way for the past decade. Third party data silos are a grave liability - it hardly matters if the acting threat is overt authoritarianism, progressive totalitarianism, or plain old economics.
What's that video? It's hard to comment without the context.
Hopefully the knee-jerk reaction to the inevitable massive leak will put this law where it belongs.
> Uber's infrastructure is completely incapable of handling that volume of data,

The data volume isn't very big. Let's assume Uber records locations for 20 million users and pings each user every 5 minutes. We're talking about 20 million users * 12 events per hour * 24 hours * 16 bytes (my generous assumption of how much it would cost to store a user id, timestamp, and precise long/lat data) = ~100 GB a day or 3 TB a month. And 20 million / (5 * 60) = 67k events per second.

I could probably build out the infrastructure to process and store a year's worth of user location data for 20k a year on AWS.