skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What circumstance would be needed to have a view where an employee can find riders by name and look at their whole history? If there is a complaint it should allow the customer service agent to see the ride and perhaps some history (ratings make sense, but including full locations/times seems unwise), but I can't think of a reason why this would ever need to be a process started by a Lyft agent and not the customer or driver.
Agreed. It's made worse by the fact that homeless people are often transient. When a city does a good job of providing services to homeless people, homeless people travel there. Rinse, repeat until the services are overwhelmed, and everyone goes back to "why are we failing to deal with our homelessness problem?"

It worked for SLC because SLC is isolated and expensive to travel to. In the tightly packed, interconnected megalopolises of the Bay Area, LA, and the Northeast, good luck getting anything to work long-term at just the municipal level.
I agree that this is problematic, but aren't companies valued the same way? I.e. num_shares x share_price? Similar issues apply there.
This is just the same theme that any big lobbying industry will use. Tobacco, oil, Pharma, agriculture, Auto, you name it. They all do the same. Sponsor some research that either questions or contradicts anything negative to the industry, while hopefully producing some industry specific positive studies. A friend of mine is doing his PhD on this. This isn’t small business or trivial / niche research. This tactic runs and controls all top US universities (MIT, Stanford, Harvard), or at least the critical departments he looked in-depth at.

Ironically “controversial” researchers will also get disproportionate media coverage, as media tries to find pro and against statements. Thankfully the worst researchers have started being branded as evil. A lot more to be done though...
WebmasterWorld dot com has always been a great place to learn and ask questions.
Since when a Blind post is a credible source for news?
Yeah, you can certainly use JSON until you start caring about cost / performance then switch over. I don't use gRPC on hobby projects because writing a flask or express server that receives json payloads is much faster.

But if I were writing the next Uber or Facebook or whatever I'd probably get on gRPC or thrift or another RPC system as soon as we hit a non-trivial number of users.
I mostly agree with you. Although, social media has some benefits. I used to not use it very frequently and had thought about deactivating FB for a while, but then I moved to a new city and found it useful for both showing my old friends what I was doing on the weekends and for finding fun things to do like mountain biking and rock climbing through various groups.

But I see your point in that FB's management isn't really pushing to make those sort of interactions happen more frequently, they're just trying to get people to spend as much time on it as possible to extract ad money from them.
“my issue is the marketing spin where you claim to be better than everything else”

I’m sorry that was your impression and it’s certainly not our intent to mislead, although I’m not really sure why/where you think we claimed this. Indeed, the quoted article even says that "Timescale is not trying to take on Kx Systems directly in this core market.", and that such organizations have different needs for different use cases.

Technology choices are all about trade-offs, and databases are no different.

In fact, our docs have a page describing exactly when not to use TimescaleDB compared to other options: http://docs.timescale.com/v0.8/introduction/timescaledb-vs-n...

Cheers :)
Offtopic: that first sentence sounds very weird, I think your syntax got messed up. Use two enters to get a blank line in between. You can't do something on the next line (this is not real markdown). See: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
This is surprising considering that Google and Facebook tend to support a lot of the Soros ideological agenda. Crazy and interesting times for sure...... but we definitely do need an anti-trust action to balance things out.
Lyft tells TechCrunch that staffers in several departments that might need access to this data for their job have the ability to look up this information

See, that's a complete lie and that's the attitude that needs to sop.

No-one needed access.

Analytics definitely didn't. Engineers never did. Customer services should have to request permission from the customer before accessing sensitive data, with a valid reason. Insurance definitely did not. And "trust and safety", just like customer service, should have had to get customer permission first.

What's the need?

These are the laws that need to come into place, if your company is bigger than X, safeguards on personal data must be in place to stop anyone accessing a customer's personal data without explicit permission from the customer/senior (legally culpable) manager or as needed to fulfil an order.
It is a paradox in the sense that most of the educated guesses result in a universe which is very different from the one we observe. The paradox exists between:

1. the admittedly weak evidence for each of the guesses

2. and the evidence that at least one of the guesses must be wrong.
What are the other problems then?
Based on what I see for this tutorial, it looks like it's merely a links list of resources. Go read Moz. Go watch this video on YouTube.
For fun and games, try deep copying event objects. Spoiler alert: it doesn't work in ways that are not immediately obvious. Hours of my life I will never get back...
These are pretty good. Kudos to the Markov Curator (that should be a job title for someone somewhere).

For those not familiar with Erowid, there's this New Yorker article:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/the-trip-plann...

I didn't know about it before reading it. I since have made a donation. Not because I'm a user of psychoactives but because it represents for me what the web once was and what it should be.
Obviously when you make a support request your record should be displayed for the customer service agent, but this is the other way around where they can seek out people. I don't think that's a valid use case and there's the obvious abuse case.
There are several independent (but not peer-reviewed) studies, mostly done with students. In that context, reading fluency gains can be up to 100% in the course of a month. But for adult readers the max would be around 30%, with the average around 20% and the median a bit below that.

For some people, speed is the only thing they care about, and I'd agree that 3% isn't a huge bump. But for others, the primary benefit is ease of reading, especially for long periods of time. This ease benefit is subjective and therefore hard to measure (vision scientists tend to look at blink rate, but this is an imperfect proxy), but in our experience about 85% of readers find it easier with the colors. Interestingly, this varies by device size, with a more pronounced effect on smaller screens.
That sounds like fantastic place to work :), how come you are not locked out for posting on HN? (I am assuming you are doing this during work hours)
Ahem.

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a statistical model rejecting an online application, for ever".
It wouldn't be a sale anyway, it's a contract, and contracts aren't required to transfer monetary means, only benefits.

If the free software includes analytics or automatic bug reporting, then the company has a significant benefit, so the contract is active. Other things may also make such a contract live.

However, unfair terms in a contract, such as MIT's no warranty or claim under any circumstances, would simply get ignored. The entire contract isn't void if unfair terms are present, just those terms.

I should probably note, the last time I explored this area, the only software licenses I could find that had decent legal terminology where the Creative Commons, everyone else tends to forget to precede broad statements with classifiers like "to the extent permittable by law".
“The Gizra Way” Podcast, Episode 1
You could completely anonymize when certain key variables are met. In your example, when the ride is successfully completed and both parties confirmed this, the data can be anonymized.
> ...I did NOT need to know about what a slut your cousin is.

Especially if she's not, ya'know, there...
> Basically, I think its reasonable to both allow many people access and expect them to not abuse it.

Indeed. The FCRA accounts for bored clerks looking up random peoples' credit history.

Just because you have access to something doesn't mean you're allowed to touch it without a valid business reason.

I'm no fan of regulation but the wild west of PII is long past needing to be tamed. Companies need to be held responsible for their intelligence and how it gets used.
My not-so-humble-opinion is that if you find yourself doing metaprogramming with the C preprocessor, it's time to upgrade to a more powerful language.
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> Shooting film helps with this.

Yes! As amazing as digital photography is it's very much the automatic transmission of the photography world. It's easy to just treat a shot as a checkbox and "move on".

Film requires specific consideration and slowing of pace due to the inherent limited resources and turn-around time involved with the medium.

I don't do much photography any more but loved shooting film for this reason when I did.
Not GP, but a brief search turned up this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/03/...
How much automated/acceptance/regression testing did you guys have?

Would "releases" cause major brick-shitting (like the instance where Mr. L deployed a problematic release)?
If that were the case you wouldn’t be able to restore from an iCloud backup to a fresh new device. But you can.
Wow, there have only been 74 recorded instances of people leaving Google. Some even two or three times! /s
So yes, that's it. The Redis hidden agenda was to compete with Python (to be honest not a big secret... you can see that Redis works internally as an interpreter in a pretty obvious way), and now that you uncovered it, I'm going to say it aloud: we are going to exit in a few months with a new package system we are working at for 5 years at this point, based on the blockchain (proof of installation), which will kill NPM completely, so with a Python killer + an NPM killer we'll see what mind will be blown.
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Yeah Raiblocks is pretty interesting too. I really like what developer had done.
Oh my bad...misread that then. Probably GDAX in that case, now that Coinbase is offering custodial services I wonder if they aren't just using that.
Senate Intel Cmte Has Shared FB, Twitter and Google's Answers Re: Russian Disinfo
Looks like 2019 will have the 60 kWh battery, so 200+ miles. They may beat Tesla, given the rate of Model 3 production.
> IB is good if you trade enough to make the monthly fee worth it.

Yea valid point. I make 2 to 4 trades a week so IB makes sense for me. Plus I signed up before I was 25 so my monthly fees are still only $3 instead of $12. Plus I do enough trades that my monthly fees are waived.
To balance what out, exactly?
I don't know much about ETH, but would it be possible to write a contract using an escrow concept? I.e., there would be a wallet that eventually would pay out to one party in one circumstance, and to some other party in some other circumstance. (If you want to get complicated, it could even blend payouts among multiple parties.) We wouldn't have to trust you not to get hit by a bus, because the value wouldn't be in your wallet.

If they went to the work of creating digital contracts and didn't consider escrow, that seems to be a fairly significant omission.
The KJV / ICO Markov mashup linked in the bio is just as good

"Then he turned again unto the disciples, and said unto him, Get thee up to 300 users. Like our posts: 10 shares / like."
I don't think that's an unreasonable preference (I work for Airbnb) and it's not for everyone. There is however, consequences, for hosts who do cancel on our guests last minute and we take those types of violations seriously unless it was an extenuating circumstance. Hosts can be penalized with financial penalties, they lose their Superhost status and eligibility, and this information is posted to their review section. Repeated violations also will result in suspension from the platform.
Five diets, one year later: Did our staffers keep off the weight?
Probably is on the data science team...
"An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative."

-Ben Graham, from chapter 1 of The Intelligent Investor
Nobody besides a few elite security people even knows how legit crypto products really are. It's all a rumor mill for us lay programmers. Crypto is cool and all but human right? Not sure what that has to do with anything. Crypto is a tool for the good guys and the bad guys, it's not some absolutist concept.
The theory is always 'wrong' if 'correct' means fitting the data perfectly.

Having to adjust the parameters of the model and having to change the fundamental aspects (e.g. humans came from Africa) are different things.
> In the event of an emergency, this is a really bad idea.

What did people do when bad things happened at stadia before there were cell phones? Mass casualty incidents at arenas aren't exactly a new thing. (Who concert in Cincinnati, Disco Demolition in Chicago, etc...)
Not sure why / how you got that idea. I frankly do not get the point you're trying to make.
Unfortunately downvote to disagree has been officially endorsed as inevitable. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12330029#12330373

I wish there was even the tiniest bit of public accountability! Even user profile totals of upvotes, downvotes, comments, and flags would be a usable signal. Maybe one of the perks of being a YC company is seeing which accounts downvoted yours... ;)
That sure changes the Uber vs. Lyft media narrative.
Regarding this statement,

> "There could be an alliance between authoritarian states and these large, data-rich IT monopolies that would bring together nascent systems of corporate surveillance with an already developed system of state-sponsored surveillance," he said. "This may well result in a web of totalitarian control the likes of which not even Aldous Huxley or George Orwell could have imagined."

It's possible, but the big US companies seem to have good intent. I'd be more wary of big China tech for totalitarian control over information presented to users and their interaction with the tech systems.

Having multiple giants with competing interests might help to combat the risk that one of them turns to this.
It is that queue of 150000+ that have signed up for a place in the queue for this that scares me.

More people could sign their money away on this to make the Tesla queue look like a lemonade stand. This has not happened before, we really are in new territory as people en-masse think they can get rich on this. Plenty actually are and all of them are telling everyone else to follow their example. This is a bubble but everyone is getting everyone to pump it up with a view to hold... Oh dear.
It's interesting to try to imagine how a break-up like the Bell breakup would even function with Facebook or Google.

Unlike previous uses of Antitrust law, it's not really plausible to simply split along geographic boundaries, sorting a few shared assets into one company or another, since the whole point of these companies is irrelevance of geographic boundaries.

Similarly, splitting along product lines is particularly challenging in tech companies, where everything is extremely integrated -- nevermind that Facebook and Google each have essentially one profit center, in advertisements. You couldn't very well split Google Flights out into its own corp. Even if you did, the search corp would still dominate.

Even if the political will is summoned to apply Antitrust legislation to tech giants, I'm not sure what an enforcement would look like.

I think what this actually points to is that Antitrust isn't the right lever: the problem is lax regulation, lax enforcement of existing regulation, and bad policy around lobbying efforts.
Read the class action lawsuit recently filed against Google by James Damore. That at least in part answers this question. Also check out Project Veritas.

edit: made more specific.
It does not work like this. You will always be crossed on NBB or NBA.

The concept of "bad" vs a national best bid or a national best ask can only come via order delay. Better execution via order delay as seen by a customer is always a lie as none of retail brokerages look at the order, look at the 100@101 x 100@101.1 market and say "ok, i'm buying 380K @ 101.09 from you" followed by posting the trade followed by trying to unwind position. Oh no, they simply present your order by adding it to the book.
So basically Uber is the Weinstein of startups.
None of the data that was available sounds like sensitive PII so I'm not sure why anyone would be surprised by this. I would probably think that rider/driver feedback isn't PII at all.

I suppose it might be a bit questionable if Lyft was creating and providing tools to make it easy to look this stuff up and promoting it within the company but that doesn't sound like the case either.
Instead of the tricks with __COUNTER__ it is better to define the macro such that it also defines initializer function which registers whatever you want to register dynamically on program startup. The way of doing that is somewhat non-portable but essentially every interesting compiler-platform combination has straightforward way to do that as it is needed for both C++ (to call constructors of global variables) and ObjectiveC (as part of the code that @implementation expands into) implementations.

Edit: also, syntax-wise it seems to me that it is better do define the macro such that it can be used as

define_foo(blabla...){ ... code ...}

In this case this would involve code like

#define define_foo(name, ...) \
static foo_ ## name(); \
... initializer function ...
static foo_ ## name()

which also solves the first problem mentioned in the article.
It isn't "if the value is an object then scope gets a copy of the reference" No new objects are created when you pass an object.

An object's value is a memory location. When you pass it as an argument you're passing that value into the method. The analogy is more akin to casting than copying.
except amazon stock represents ownership of a corporation with assets that have value.
Everybody tells us that people won’t read this
I think it's a matter of quickly setting up and closing an off-chain ledger, rather than supporting more transactions or keeping transaction costs low. Privacy could be a reason to do this, but I'm sure there are other reasons, too.
Right, but the solution to that isn't 'encrypt everything', its 'define reasonable (and this definition may vary, but its certainly not "none") access controls for user data and pii'.
Hotels are also so expensive, airbnb is really a lot cheaper..and you have way more choices location wise.

It is almost always a worse experience than a hotel. Also hotels get screwed on taxes in a way airbnb doesn't.
Turntables in clubs
Glad you posted this. I found the article from November to be quite moving. As someone who knows precious little about Japanese culture, it surprises me that someone would die alone - and then sit alone for a long time before discovery. I had always heard Japan was a very collectivist society. Does that play into this?
You should be able to look up how Google handles this if you want insight into how to do this well.
Let's suppose there is no published source to corroborate the statement I wrote. Is the statement ipso facto untrue?

Alternatively, let's say there's a source, but I don't provide it. Does that effect whether my statement is true or not true?

Thirdly, now let's suppose there's a source available, they've measured it, found a result that agrees with what I wrote, and I offer it up. Now what happens? Does that change anything for you? Do you say, "Oh, when I wrote [citation needed] before, what I really meant is that I disagreed with you and was trying to express that through a sideways remark. I've considered the information in the source you provided, though, and have now adjusted my mental model accordingly."

I just want your answers before I invest any significant effort into trawling through data and putting work into a response. Otherwise, it would just be a massive waste of time on my part, right?
It's still pass by value. The value of the object happens to be a reference to a memory location. A primitive also points to a memory location too.
Without electrical lighting and such, I'd agree. Sleep not long after sundown, a mid-night period of wakefulness, wake up for the day around sunrise. Ever since I can remember, my own default is to maintain activity late into the night, and then sleep as close to 8 or 9 hours as I'm permitted. Granted, that's a little rough if my 3 year old happens to wake up at 7:30, but 8:30 or 9 is pretty common for him; at 1, he often slept until 10, after being put to bed at 8pm.

8:30 - 10:00 seems to be the time range that I'll be ready to get up, when left to my own schedule. It's usually 2-3 hours after I wake up that I'm really ready to jump into a heavy project. The person who wakes up at 6 is right on target to start working, if they come in at 8. Me, I always feel like I could've used a couple more hours of sleep, even if I went to bed at 10pm the night before.
«common around these companies»

The fact you assume it is common at Google is, exactly, a pre-conceived idea.
Yeah, and it’s usually called “data science” and “personalized targeting”.
> they acknowledge that some refactoring is necessary, they don't think that's a priority (and that we should focus on bug fixing)

Sounds like they're more interested in make-work and job security than creating a good product. You may wanna get out of there.
Finally! I HATE to copy and paste pod names.
I’m on our cloud security team; our leadership chain gives us wide latitude (Hacker News A-OK) since our entire job is to be subject matter experts. Literally “Know All The Things” was how my job req was described to me.
Forgive my ignorance, but aren't such places bitterly cold outside?
Security analysis of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges
orrrrr they legitimately see it as a viable transnational currency which could ensure their own growth as a company.

I doubt Stripe cashes those coins in, their interest is commercial, not financial
I don't disagree with him, but the Soros-Murdoch media circus has only paved the way for them and has likely done more damage to the American "freedom of mind" to date. Faceboogle is just the new guard - better, faster, and stronger.
I get where you're coming from, but I think that argument needs some work. Currently, none of those rights you mention that are enumerated in the Bill of Rights are guaranteed through absolute means, they are preserved via checks & balances among branches of the government. And even if they were more absolute, there would still be asterisks as things stand today:

- You have freedom of speech/thought unless it was the motivation behind a criminal action, in which case you're additionally punished for a hate crime

- You have freedom to keep & bear arms except not in some states if your Sheriff doesn't like you

- You have the right to privacy unless there is probable cause to believe you're involved in criminal activity, in which case the court can issue a search warrant

- etc. etc.

Even if you tried to argue that "crypto is a basic right," that wouldn't change anyone's mind who is arguing that there should be an asterisk if you're under criminal investigation.