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Ask HN: Data collection – file submissions
External users need to provide files which would be processed through a couple of services internally, what software SaaS or cloud service would you use?

1. I don't want to write code or develop upload forms
2. User should be authenticated even if I set up accounts manually
3. Users cannot see other user data, or delete previously uploaded data
4. I want to take the uploaded files out via a workflow to another storage area
5. Must be secure
6. Should be able to set it up in the morning

:)
After several months of Apple Music and disappearing tracks this is what I’m doing now.

I’m not renting anything any more.
Uber driver looks down for seconds before fatal crash
You really thought Slack somehow didn't have access to those messages or deleted them? That this feature wouldn't be inevitable? Their whole sales spiel is that they can keep all your messages forever. This shouldn't be surprising. I'm not missing the point at all. I always assumed they had an entire history and could reveal it at any time. It's not end to end encrypted. Assuming otherwise is dangerous and frankly, idiotic in today's world.
So you only read the first line of my post?
Is it true that sites routed via Cloudflare are blocked in certain countries like China? Would this work better?
Can you elaborate how you sandboxed tabs in Firefox? I use incognito when using Google or sites that use Facebook commenting on order to lower the tracking ability, but sandboxing sounds better.
I cannot understand how this could be the womans fault? Is it because of the rules of jaywalking in USA? Where I am from it is always considered the drivers fault, even if a pedestrian literally throws themselves in front of the car. Simply because the car can kill a pedestrian and not the other way around. The way I see it the uber vehicle should have slowed down to a speed at which it would have been able to react to these kind of abrupt motions. This should be cracked down hard on, not making it illegal for self driving car but the fine should be high. I dont like the thought of a self deiving car company becoming «too big to fail» and getting excused for killing pedestrians that dont understand how self driving cars work.
Here's a picture of the Uber car from inside. No FLIR, just GPS:

https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Front-_-...

A different picture from that article shows that under the GPS is the gear stick, an emergency button, and a cellphone charger.
The reputation of reddit as a whole still matters to advertisers. An advertiser might not want to advertise on The Daily Stormer, for example, even if its ads are only shown on boards focused on cute animal photos.
Just this weekend I was visiting friends in a small town in the south-west of France. I took a country walk on Sunday morning, and noticed there were very few birds. The familiar, comforting sound of a distant woodpecker, but considering how much forest I walked through and it is fully in Spring-bloom I was very surprised to not see or hear birds in general.
I dont know, that article linked says this-

>...the inaccuracies stemmed primarily from a statistical and reporting/formatting error that led to further inaccuracies.

>The review found that there was no intended deception or evidence of deliberate misconduct, and that the significance of the results and discussion in the article would not change because of the errors.

>However, since the number of errors is too voluminous to be executed by issuing a correction statement, the journal is withdrawing the article and will republish it as a corrected version in a subsequent issue, and will utilize the same DOI as the originally published version of the article. The authors agree with this decision.

This is good/ Not bad?
Doesn't seem so bad for the founder.
This is a good opportunity to join and/or recommend decentralized networks, like Mastadon:

https://joinmastodon.org/

https://instances.social/
You're missing the forest for the trees. The accuracy to kilotonnage ratio of the warheads, as well as the absolute warhead count, is irrelevant. The US nuclear arsenal as a whole is 2-3x more effective, and thus 2-3x deadlier, because of the super-fuze.

Also, even if the increased accuracy results in less civilian casualties during the first strike (debatable, as strategic population centers will still be targeted...with greater accuracy), the super-fuze is still likely increasing the overall probability of nuclear war. Thus I would hardly say it makes humanity as a whole better off.
In May, once GDPR becomes mandatory, we'll all be able to issue data requests to the likes of Facebook and Cambridge Analyitica etc, to find out just what they know about us. The requests are free, so with social media, you could almost mount a denial of service attack against a business if enough people make a request!
That's not a good choice for non technical people.

I respect what they are doing, but the community is still nerdy and really small. It will feel good from a techie perspective, but it's not something that many users are going to get much value out of, you are kind of wasting their time.

Not sure, but pretty sure Mastodon is going to end up being as popular as Diaspora RStatus or app.net. It's not a mainstream solution. Federation for most people is a useful feature on top of an active popular social network, not the other way around.
While I'm a supporter of the right to have guns there is one thing I like to recommend to everyone: store it safely. If you already do this, great. If not, I'd recommend taking at least some small precautions:

It can be as little as just taking away a important part and store it in a good locker somewhere else in your house or even just hide it or you can do like me and get a weapons safe approved by the insurance industry and bolt it to the floor. (I got mine for somewhere around USD300 and it is big enough to also contain hard drives, medications, important papers etc.)

By being careful with storage and also introducing others to safe gun culture we might make a difference by preventing accidents, preventing more stolen guns on the black market etc.

Edit: It seems I'm annoying some people. Anybody see what I did wrong? Honestly more interested in the explanation than in the stupid votes:-/

Edit2: Tried to make my post less annoying. Thanks 1337biz
> This is very dismaying to see

This is the chilling effect from the attack on Section 230 safe harbor protection (an attack which was largely “justified” by conduct which was already found to be outside of the pre-existing safe harbor, and so which needed no modification to deal with.)

Companies that are being responsible to their shareholders are going to change behavior to minimize exposure to content which is likely to draw civil litigation when their protection from that risk is weakened.
Bullshit. Do not overdrive your headlights.
This is a good opportunity to join and/or recommend friends to join decentralized networks, like Mastadon:

https://joinmastodon.org/

https://instances.social/
I'm not sure ethics is ever a real factor in large scale business. If it's there, it's there as a PR move. The only wall companies push up against is that of the law.
Don't get screwed by security! You can easily tell if they're truly sincere RMS disciples or just ersatz RMS poseurs by trying to log in to their account using their login name as their password.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-kth.html

>When I found out about those, I overthrew them. The first time, I happened to know the password of one of the people who was included among the elite, so I was able to use that to turn everyone back on. The second time he had changed his password, he had now changed his sympathies, he was now part of the aristocratic party. So, I had to bring the machine down and use non-timeshared DDT to poke around. I poked around in the monitor for a while, and eventually figured out how to get it to load itself in and let me patch it, so that I could turn off password checking and then I turned back on a whole bunch of people's wheel bits and posted a system message. I have to explain that the name of this machine was OZ, so I posted a system message saying: “There was another attempt to seize power. So far the aristocratic forces have been defeated—Radio Free OZ”. Later I discovered that “Radio Free OZ” is one of the things used by Firesign Theater. I didn't know that at the time.

>But gradually things got worse and worse, it's just the nature of the way the system had been constructed forced people to demand more and more security. Until eventually I was forced to stop using the machine, because I refused to have a password that was secret. Ever since passwords first appeared at the MIT-AI lab I had come to the conclusion that to stand up for my belief, to follow my belief that there should be no passwords, I should always make sure to have a password that is as obvious as possible and I should tell everyone what it is. Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime. On the systems that permit it I use the “empty password”, and on systems where that isn't allowed, or where that means you can't log in at all from other places, things like that, I use my login name as my password. It's about as obvious as you can get. And when people point out that this way people might be able to log in as me, i say “yes that's the idea, somebody might have a need to get some data from this machine. I want to make sure that they aren't screwed by security”.
This should be expected when your population is still predominately religious. Religions condition people to believe fiction as fact.
They update their own contact information.
The parent did not complain about the ban being ineffective. He complained about it hurting his niche hobby. That's selfish.

As for the argument that the ban is a bad idea because it is ineffective. I don't know if the ban will help. I'm not an expert, though it seems pretty obvious that our current situation isn't working so well. Do you think a ban will increase gun violence? How sure are you?
There are 12.5 deaths per billion vehicle miles driven. This is the statistic that self-driving cars have to beat in order to be "safer."

Based on this, Uber has had about 3 million test miles (under mostly safer than average road conditions, but I'll leave that aside). They're now at 333 deaths per billion miles driven. Gonna have to go a few more days without a death before they're "safer." (This is not all robot cars, of course, but not all robot cars are meaningfully the same right now).

http://www.eschatonblog.com/2018/03/the-faith-is-strong.html
Container tabs: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
Bit of hypocrisy to say 'we're not advertising on Facebook anymore' while leaving those buttons in place.

I'm sure that it wasn't intentional. Most CMSs have this functionality built in.

Facebook has its claws in deep. De-Facebooking the Web isn't going to be a simple task.

Do you think anyone will try? This is a PR storm, but it will be drowned out in a few weeks or less with whatever headlines get clicks for news sites at that point. Click-hungry web publishers are not going to remove these sharing tools, and many smaller sites depending on tools like Wordpress probably don't even know how even if they wanted to.

If Facebook lost half of its users tomorrow (which won't happen), there would still be over a billion people using it, not to mention its other tools like Instagram.
Love them or hate them, Facebook isn't going anywhere for the foreseeable future.
Rather: Now would be a good time for Facebook users to resign. Zuck is doing exactly the same things when he started Facebook. It’s the users; The users that need to leave the platform. Does anyone really believe that a FB without Zuckerberg will all of a sudden be great for people? Reporters like these should inform users better about how their data is being used and how they can change things for themselves by simply leaving the platform. That’s 1. more practical and 2. the only actual solution to the problem.
Yes, exactly.
Really shocked, shocked to learn that there was some web scraping going on..
A human driver would have braked and swerved left into the other lane; there was obviously no oncoming traffic.

A human driver would have seen the woman much better than this camera footage makes out.

The Uber attendant was sadly not paying attention, which is going to look very bad for the self-driving car industry, even if it is very hard to ask humans to pay attention and do nothing.
If your building is tall enough to be steel and concrete instead of wood, this problem goes away.
Not so bad for the shareholders really either. $500bn isn't a bad market cap for a photo sharing site. The people being hurt here are the general public.
My guess is that she felt so obviously visible that she didn’t expect to be hit. From where she started crossing she had a view of all the incoming cars for the entire length of the bridge. She was probably expecting the car to just descelerate from afar to let her cross.
Makes total sense! I would just be tempted to apply the extra safety measures which would be applied to the crossing zones, to every zone.
> YouTube already makes copious amounts of money outside of advertising and Red exclusivity.

What? Unless something drastically changed in the last two years Youtube still breaks about even [1]

I'm willing to bet that they are the largest hoster and streamer of video content in the world, and storage, servers and bandwidth ain't exactly free.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-still-doesnt-make-goo...
> It would be the best for Uber to release the raw sensor data during the event.

I agree with that statement only if we define "best" as "for the common good." The best thing in Uber's own interest is very likely to lock that shit down and hold onto it until a judge makes them give it up. Somebody died here, and it very well may have been Uber's fault. Uber could very well be on the hook for a tremendous amount of punitive damage.
Or, let's be honest, any of the investors who bought it.
"You never had a constitutional right to owe a firearm."

The Supreme Court ruled otherwise. District of Columbia vs. Heller.
There's lots of very interesting research in this area inspired by biology. Check out http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~glauder/FishRoboticsLaude...
> The good news about self-driving car accidents is that improvements to the system will be eventually shared by all cars saving many lives.

If this was true, how come the car was not trained for this pretty common/typical scenario. Did it take one human life to show that it is possible that a pedestrian can cross the road in front of the car?

Are the people gone so blind with this obsession with new tech?
Safety drivers have an impossible job. They're just the sacrificial lamb, staked out to appease the regulatory gods. The driver was looking down, probably at her phone. Shame on her and all that, but take a good long look at yourself. How many hours of mind-numbing boredom could YOU take before you pulled out yours? The car had been functioning fine until that point.
In sweden we have regulations that require reflectors, and front + rear lights in the dark.
Because riding the bus or going to the park alone are such dangerous activities. Please.
It is available for Free plan too, with DDOS protection, 1 rate limiting rules and 5,000 ip rules.
> They were severely over driving their headlights if what we are seeing is "reality" as seen by the onboard computer.

This is the salient point that I was looking for.

Interestingly, US and European headlights standards are very, very different and this accident is a clear example. US headlights are intended to "illuminate the roadway", whereas European headlights are intended to "illuminate obstacles on the road and in the margins". That's not just a wording difference, rather the part numbers for US-spec and European-spec headlight assemblies are different.
True but there are trails that cross over the road, it is an odd area. If you zoom out on google maps you will see some of the trails. Note the sidewalk/pathway. It is no pedestrian but has paths for them so it sends mixed signals.
This continues to distract from the problem: systemic issues in American culture and society that perpetually re-primes a powder keg of fear and divisiveness.

That sounds wordy but I just don't have the skill to articulate my feelings. There's just... something fundamentally wrong with how everything can feel so zero-sum.
Dravidian languages originated 4,500 years ago
Check out my study plan:. https://github.com/desicochrane/data-science-masters

Its still evolving, but the earlier parts are pretty comprehensive and resources have been over a year in curation.
Lots of parks around and trails that do go across the road, it is an odd area.

If you zoom out on google maps you will see some of the trails. Note the sidewalk/pathway, it is no pedestrian but has paths for them so it sends mixed signals.
This is a pretty nice step forward to enable OCaml as a general purpose language that supports modern CPU architectures. A good intro here: http://kcsrk.info/ocaml/multicore/2015/05/20/effects-multico...
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That screen is mounted high in Uber's cars. The driver was looking low.
>A human driver could have seen the person and/or bike from a long way off.

Not true at all, the person was not standing under lit streetlights and was in the shadows. Humans have problems detecting objects in the shadows, especially at night.

3M made a video illustrating how difficult it is to see people at night. In this video, people wearing bright-colored clothing don't even show up until 250 feet away. According to the national safety council, a human driver traveling at 30mph at night, may take up 500 feet to react to and stop when there is an object in the road.

I reccomend watching this video as it strongly changed my views about night driving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMvM7-9lgeg
Good ad blockers stop a lot of the tracking as well, though - which is the main reason I use ad blocking.
So, it's still a separate branch? What's notable about this version of ocaml-multicore?
What is the advantage your system has over something live Twitter or Discord?
It's really not turning into a shitstorm. People are comforting themselves by telling themselves that.

Here's what is going to happen.

- Facebook's finances won't be meaningfully impacted at all. Advertisers are not going to abandon FB in any consequential numbers. They'll spit off ~$21 billion in net income in 2018 and end the year with around $50 billion in cash. One of the richest corporations in world history, at the age of 15. Comparable to the income production of Microsoft, a juggernaut that is 40 years old.

- Zuckerberg and Facebook will go to Washington, so to speak. They'll bow down as the powers want them to, pledge changes, blah blah blah. We're so very sorry we helped Donald Trump to get elected, we promise it won't happen again.

- Some new monster US Government bureaucracy will be crafted. It'll simultaneously be claimed to protect privacy while assisting the government in further abusing it. The Digital Protection Agency. It will also make compliance increasingly costly and difficult, benefiting the existing tech giants, entrenching their positions against start-up competition. This will increase stagnation. [1]

- A very tiny, entirely meaningless, portion of Facebook users will quit. It will be 1% or less. Most people don't care. Even the ones that do, will overwhelmingly continue using the platform to broadcast their opinions or photos or just to communicate with friends & family generally.

- Political speech and political advertising will be further restricted online. The big tech platforms will become regulated stand-in government & political party censorship systems, as with traditional broadcast media of past generations. This is aggressively being put into place now, across every major social network. They're all going to comply willingly.

- Political power, and the power of these tech giants, will be more entrenched than ever before. It will become even harder to unseat those already in power. The duopoly politcal party system in the US, will ensure its survival at the top of the food chain and will regulate the platforms to their benefit, as was the case with traditional media. Again, this is taking place right now. Nothing will prevent it.

As the tech giants increasingly pledge fealty - while on their knees begging forgiveness - to the existing political system in DC - the two parties - their survival will be guaranteed and protected through regulation and favors. This is tradition at this point, going back nearly a century. The powers that be in Washington don't care who wins in tech, or how much money the winners make, they care about obedience to their agenda of maintaing control & power.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-21/paul-ford...
Just like it was great for Microsoft when BillG left...
In Russia this concept was widely used a couple of years ago. Somebody published a popular article distorting the idea to the point of becoming a conspiracy theory against our moral values. Along with so-called "Dulles Doctrine" it became part of western conspiracy lore
Marketing it is. I actually thought about this idea for a long time, and did a design based off of the phonebook in iOS 11.

But marketing this application is nearly impossible, because it doesn't have any extra features. It just has phone numbers [contact details], and that doesn't excite users to spend time getting it set up.

So I concluded that this is something that has to be done from the OS vendor side. We need an extension to the CardDAV protocol, and we need vendors to implement it.
YouTube/Google probably have so-detailed user profile (or maybe I should say "dossier") that they probably know with a very high accuracy who is likely to pay and who isn't.
I think that is very unrealistic.
Still, IMO it's a workaround, not a solution.
Unfortunately, it's incredibly good politics to be for "real families" and against young single antisocial techies who want to live alone. One of the restrictions on multifamily construction is a minimum proportion of 2- and 3-bedroom units.
Not sure how many of you run pihole and check the logs. The number of sites tracking people is crazy. To top it, devices and android phones in particular, seem to be doing it a little too much as well. I tried using mi phones for a while and decided to stop after looking at my logs.
I made the same moves last year and have no regrets. I was 28 when I quit my career in finance in May 2017. It's definitely been the hardest thing I've ever done (System's Architecture and Computer Networks) but it's been the most rewarding. I'll be finishing Year 1 of 3 this June.
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> Attempts to make Facebook an infrastructure provider have arguably so far failed

Adding to this list how failed to us with Parse.com
So you want to be a security engineer?
"Private posts are not encrypted. Make sure you trust your instance admin not to just read your private posts on the back-end. Do not say anything you would not want potentially intercepted."

fatal flaw.
Mark Zuckerberg: “I’m really sorry that this happened”
This is hysteria. You people are crazy. This is not nearly that big of a deal. I beg my fellow hacker news readers, get ahold of yourselves.

This is a stellar opportunity for this community to have some introspection. Are we capable of it? These kinds of posts are a mirror to what we badly want to be true, whether it is actually true or not. We, apparently, badly want Facebook and even moreso Mark Zuckerberg to fail. Why do we want that so badly?