skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trouble is that it all adds up to paint a picture of a corporate culture that's a little too comfortable being icky.
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It was unethical because they didn't warn their users ahead of time that they might randomly be opted into the alternate pairing system.
I'm at a military hospital, the only language they'll allow is perl. But I can have any version I want installed (eg Padre). But I can remote I to HPC systems with ipython. Not sure if the left hand is talking to the right.
Since I know author (he had the desk next to me in the lab) I feel I should add something here. Let me just say that he was someone who had recently finished his PhD and was taking a summer data science sabbatical with Uber. I know that they were also working on how to optimize the distribution of cars to best serve a market but that would be pretty boring to talk about. I think what you are seeing in "having fun" with the data is actually more of the neuroscientist/psychologist coming out in him combined with his propensity for making science topics interesting and maybe a little sensational. This is the guy who also brought us zombie neuroscience remember (check it out if you aren't familiar). At best we are daily trying to infer subjects internal processing/motivations from the sorts of actual behavioral measures we collect in the lab. This is one where behavioral inferences are perhaps better than self-report. As to your other point, I can even see how knowing how many people are being frisky and where they live being used to improve public health policy although that was obviously not the point (and it being kept anon of course). But let's not forget that a cohort of uber riders is not a very uniform sample of the population and you are going to be somewhat limited in your ability to use it as a tool for social justice. He did a similar analysis although more in line with our lab work where he combined a big brain training app's anon user data with their state geography and its demographics to draw some interesting conclusions that you wouldn't have expected. These are just the application of techniques that we use in the lab to make inferences about brain activity and unravel its complexity and weave an understandable story. I am certainly not trying to defend Uber's other data privacy issues which are in the news and very concerning but I don't think this is one of them. I hope this helps a little knowing more of the backstory.
A limousine service that uses business records to work out when passengers are fucking and then writes articles about doing this, complete with fucking graphs and even some fucking maps, I think qualifies as pretty fucking creepy.
Interesting question. I'm not intimately familiar with D, but it does seem like it's designed as a saner alternative to C++. How many C++ alternatives are out there? From my memory D seemed like one of the first major attempts to get away from C++. Maybe they didn't go far enough to meet peoples expectations. Or maybe they were too far ahead of their time.

Anyway, when you said that the first thing that popped into my mind was Ewan McGregor going all "you were the chosen one" and actually I think that kind of describes my feeling about D. At first it sounded very exciting, but then it seemed like there really wasn't a payoff and I ended up feeling kind of bleh about it. I wonder how many other people feel similarly. Maybe D's problem is kind of an emotional one?
These deals are net positive for Nevada (tax breaks don't really hurt them that much if they wouldn't have gotten the facility anyway), and net negative for the US overall (revenue wise, at least). If nobody engaged in these kinds of deals then Tesla would surely pay more tax.

I don't blame Nevada for engaging in it, and I think they probably won overall.

Other factors (cheap land, regulatory, etc) almost definitely came into play but nobody is really complaining about those.
A year old hn discussion from before source was available has some
interesting bits:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6603538
Fair enough.

Although disliking a person for their ideas seems rather petty, don't you agree?
Athos – Apparel with 22 sensors to measure body movements for $200
It was a simple example used to illustrate that there are obvious situations where you get a bad deal even though you profit. You can also create other examples that do different things and aren't germane to that point.
The Great Globe Project: 10.5M Piece, 420 Ft Wide, 3D Model of Earth
The idea that statistics have a moral imperative to be "decent" is as fascinating as it is ridiculous. Anonymized data is not a privacy breach, and Uber probably doesn't have any data that can help with "hunger, poverty, illiteracy, etc.".

I'm sorry if the idea that "people's short overnight stays are evident in their travel data" makes you blush, but that isn't anyone else's problem.
I would argue that they are. States competing on deals like this is bad. If no state gave an incentive, they'd have to pick one at full price anyway. Also, if the deal is good with Tesla, why not give similar deals to every company that wants to put up a building? In the end states will just forego corporate taxes altogether and get all their revenue from the people. Is that bad? I'd have to think harder before answering that, but I'm inclined to say yes. Corporations don't retire, people do. People need to be able to get of the monetary treadmill, but companies don't.
That's got to be a typo, or this story is burying the lead. Is pumped hydro really 30% more inefficient than even that figure? Because that would mean it's almost entirely a waste of money for anyone to store energy by this or other means.

If it's $103/GWh, on the other hand, then we're talking about only ~10% overhead on costs.
Or, you know, we could reprocess (recycle?) the waste into much shorter lived compounds and fuel for 2nd generation breeder reactors. Then there wouldn't be a problem in the first place.
One more thing--

Would google publish data that shows how searches for porn spike during different times of the day or times of the year, as if it's some "cool and hip and edgy!" insight?

I don't think so.

And for the same reason they don't (whatever reason that is), it would probably also be wise for Uber not to post stuff like this.

I really don't care, nor am I offended. I'm just speculating that Uber doesn't have the brightest team of execs and still have a lot of "growing up" to do.
> Although disliking a person for their ideas seems rather petty, don't you agree?

No. I'd argue that ideas are pretty much the most relevant and least petty bases for (liking or) disliking a person.
Don't they sell people on their super-accurate-awesomesauce-state-of-the-art matching algorithm? Were people warned that they may be guinea pigs?
That's why HTML was intended for dynamic layout. People who want to specify fixed layouts are doing it wrong.
In a storage context, quoting a price per kwh is somewhat ambiguous. Does it cost an additional $103 every time 1 kwh i stored, or does 1 kwh of capacity cost $103 with a per-usage cost of ~$0?

There's probably a standard interpretation, but it's not obvious to a lay reader like me.
> Do you think that your average Uber rider would be OK with Uber employees analyzing their ride patterns (with their real names attached) to try to figure out where and when they are having sex?

Sure, as long as Uber isn't broadcasting that information with their name attached. The average person really doesn't care about (or understand the extent of) data analysis (from companies or the government) -- what they care about is public disclosure which may mean personal embarrassment or a lawsuit or other form of inconvenience. People who want to control all their data are hoping for a fantasy world where observations and inferences by third parties are magically made impossible. The reasonable thing to focus lawmaking efforts on is limiting legal forms of disclosure and standardizing safe storage requirements for the raw data -- indeed such laws already exist, with the HIPPA privacy rule perhaps being the best known in the US.
We cannot give away customer data as it is owned by realtors on our platform.
One word: music
He acknowledges the questionable nature of his blog posts on his website:

> Between June 2011 and August 2011 I worked with my friends over at Uber as their data scientist, writing (what I thought were) amusing, data-driven blog posts (among other, more serious roles).
Everything you wanted to know about how India watches porn in one map
A8 Chip in iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Capable of Playing 4K Video
Unfortunately, it's not likely worth that much to a buyer - if someone had you do 50k worth of work, they would have gotten something custom-tailored to their needs.

By building this for yourself, you were trading that guaranteed income for the potential of this making much more than that if it caught on in the market. Whether it could possibly do that is an unanswered question ATM.

That said, good luck, I hope someone makes your day!
I think Elon Musk chooses a narrative for each post that supports the overarching image of Tesla and also couches the points he is going to make for public consumption. One major component of that is presenting an image to organize everything else around. "The House Always Wins" is a powerful one. Rhetoric involves more than just logos but also pathos and ethos.
Artificial Intelligence, Really, Is Pseudo-Intelligence
It's a bit more complicated than that.. VW bought Porsche Automobile, but Porsche SE owns most of voting shares in VW. A good descriptor of the mess:

http://www.automobilemag.com/features/news/0911_porsche_and_...
Why spend $50k to build something you can't follow through to completion? If there isn't enough intrinsic value for you to set it up as a real service yourself, what makes you think people will buy it?

(Honest, not rhetorical questions. The Internet can mangle your tone.)
I'd argue that its their reaction to new ideas (as one point), I've met plenty of people who've held opposing views but were open to discussing them. Eventually either they changed or I changed.

Nothing to dislike about them.
In Europe, a Resolution to Break Up Google
what is wrong with such deals is that one needs to be big (and/or extremely politically connected) to get one. I.e. the game is tilted. I mean why a small shop should pay higher taxes than a big one? How is that good for economy/society?
> If you want a legal monpoly over your works, you should not be able to pick and choose which services can rebroadcast it.

The ability to control who uses something is exactly what a legal monopoly over it is.

Its like saying of personal property, "if you want a legal monopoly over your things, you shouldn't be able to pick and choose who can borrow them."
The Popular Impact of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem [pdf]
For this reason I much prefer how fonts look in Safari by scaling the browser down, and running at 'Best for Retina' instead of running at 'looks like 1440x900' and then leaving the fonts at the normal scale.
That's overly simplistic. It's worth a lot more than $1, but unless someone wants to make a product out of it, the full source/server is probably not worth more than they'd pay for a copy of the software, and is arguably worth less, due to the maintenance burden.

Right now its value is in its potential for an aspiring product company. Unfortunately, without any customers at all, that's extremely hard to gauge, so it will require a steep discount. I'd probably pay at least a few thousand for it.
> How else would they discover false negatives in their algorithm?

This is exactly why research that deals with humans at Universities invariably must pass a human subjects review process. "How else would we discover X?" is certainly not reason to subject anyone to an unethical experiment. Subjecting people to what you likely believe to be a bad date should very definitely raise red flags, even if the details in practice would pass a human subjects review.

And that's the trouble: there's a tremendous space of research that just isn't ethical to carry out on actual living humans. As such, we have to find methods to determine answers to those questions that don't breach ethical standards. The burdens of discovery must lie squarely on the researchers, not on the (often unwitting) experimental subjects.
Indeed it did... thanks for the sharp eye, will fix!
I'm perfectly well aware that Utah is a desert, thanks. I also thought about who was using the water already; if I was the federal government I could, in a pinch, just eminent-domain the golf course that sits adjacent to the river in question. I would much prefer, of course, to have the Army Corps of Engineers

You can keep pretending that if this bill were to pass it would be a huge problem for the NSA and the feds, but the idea that the Utah government would be able to hold the facility hostage is a ridiculous pipe-dream.
The idea that one should be respectfully open to discussing and entertaining differing ideas is, I would say, an important idea.

Certainly, more generally, there are certain ideas that I personally think are more important factors in liking or disliking than other ideas. But I can't think of much that isn't an idea that is more relevant to like/dislike than ideas.
Wow, this is very interesting. I find this an amazing comment. I'm curious what the bias for white backgrounds is (or at least not 'dark' backgrounds). It's very common in web design, yet relatively neutral for application and other graphic design. Document based applications are usually white of course, but games, content creation, utilities, and many other app types are not.

I have often wondered why white is so amazingly prevalent in web design. I'd never have expected such a strong reaction, but more than one person has commented on the background of this site.
That would not solve the problem they're trying to solve.

Let's say I post something that I shouldn't have posted -- insider stock information, nude photos, whatever. Perhaps something illegal for me to post. I need to make it go away.

I need to be able to create a robots.txt today which affects stuff I posted yesterday.

This is why archive.org respects the current robots.txt for access to past content.
A far more important issue that the article doesn't explain is why the Yucca Mountain repository was shut down. It had nothing to do with technology or safety, or even money.

It was the NIMBY-mentality -- Not In My BackYard -- of a population that can't assess or compare risks[1]. I wonder which the average Joe in Nevada thinks is worse: nuclear weapons (of which Nevada has plenty and a history of unreported accidents) or Yucca?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_re...
National Medals of Science and Technology
I just got a pololu zumo robot for prototyping an industrial application at work. My daughter is only 3, but if she were 5-12 it would be a likely gift for her this Christmas. Just snap an arduino uno on top and you are literally off to the races. Not sure about the visual options there, but the example programs are an excellent hacking off point.
I see your objection as taking the concept of individual ownership a tad too literally.

First, there's the family (or guardian) unit. Unless you're advising every individual person on Earth to run their own individual computing infrastructure.

Kragen's argument isn't for an atomized Internet, but for a decentralized one. If that means that there are local hubs or clusters that a neighborhood of 10 y.o.s could access and use, it would be a vastly better world than one in which only a handful of giants provided equivalent services.

You're also showing an impressive lack of imagination in terms of what it is to have an online presence. A decentralized structure with a cache-and-forward, high-replication, mesh-net structure could well function from minimal personal investments as a point-of-entry. A smartphone, or even feature phone, could well be sufficient hardware to enter into the system. I'm seeing Android devices priced in the $20-40 range. There are very inexpensive servers which offer similar functionality.

There's another economic class which is comparable in means to your hypothetical 10 year old as well: the vast underclasses of the world, with annual incomes ranging from $200 - $2000/year. Even among these, access to minimal levels of technology is highly sought simply because it hugely reduces the costs, and provides tremendous values, from communications.

Outernet (featured a few times on HN) is one example of an information service which is aimed at this population, with concerns over cost, energy access, censorship, surveillance, and content quality. It's a broadcast mechanism, but with some sort of mesh-net response network, it could well turn into a bidirectional system (there's also investigation of making the service itself bidirection).
Side note: I found out a while back that 47,500 55 gallon barrels were dumped off the California coast near the Farallon Islands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farallon_Islands#Nuclear_waste_...
> I don't know what the story is with that site

Turns out they had the wrong certificate chain provisioned. Seems to be fixed now.
> why a small shop should pay higher taxes than a big one?

As long as money will buy political power, the little guy will always lose this game.

Get money out of politics if you want to change anything. Separation of Money and State.
As a general rule I don't participate in HN arguments, which is why I didn't reply to GPH. There is nothing I could have really added to the discussion and it would have simply devolved into a shouting match over which economic pet theories were HN's favorite. I am not really interested in shouting the loudest, it's a poor way to win arguments.

I am replying to you, because there is something I can add. My explanation of why I avoid replies. Take it as you want.
I liked the beginning where DFW expresses his opinion on the purpose of literature, how it's fundamentally about becoming human and challenges presented by modern society. I also liked how he talked about the effect of television, which sort of jived with Amusing Ourselves to Death, which claims there are limits set by different mediums in the complexity of ideas pertaining to politics that can be presented and a decline in quality of public discourse.

Then about 1/3 through the topic shifts to postmodernism, which for the reasons pointed out by Noam Chomsky I found difficult to take seriously [1]. There's even a part where DFW commends (perhaps in a tongue-in-cheek manner) the interviewer for having "a gift for lit-speak".

[1] http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/chomsky-on-pos...
Butterfield on slack
How Alibaba, Android and Airbnb change the geometry of business
"I wonder where you have been in the world"

This is probably the lamest ad hominem attempt I've seen on this site.
Listening to Customers Almost Killed This Startup
AngelList's API or getting a feed from TheLadders.com is probably your best bet for getting structured job data which includes salary data. There are plenty of other options (indeed, simplyhired, monster, burning glass) if salary data isn't a requirement.

I also have a job search tool I recently launched (aimed specifically at software engineers) that I'm looking to get feedback on: http://www.codejobs.io/

Any feedback/suggestions the HN community has would be really appreciated!

~Matt
matt@codejobs.io
My thoughts on the smart city – by Rem Koolhaas
That's correct. Also, if you've got an A/AAAA record for the domain name in question, you could run an ACME client on that box that spins up a temporary web server. That's what the node-acme demo client does.

https://github.com/letsencrypt/node-acme/blob/master/lib/acm...
What can you learn from PERL? How about regular expressions?

PCRE has been widely adopted. http://www.PCRE.org/
Take a look at the dispensaries like GreenCross. Sub $30 for an 1/8th is pretty typical.
Interesting. In the more socially-aware fora I'm familiar with, what's called "tone policing" or "tone trolling" is seen as a major faux pas, an aggressive act designed to shut people out of the conversation.
This is actually a really good point.

Google have been fighting a public relations war for a long time now to not appear creepy or stalkerish. I can think of few things they could blog about to make people consider not using Google more than "we know when you're looking for porn".

Uber have not (yet?) been widely called out as being creepy the way Google have. But Uber have data that can be every bit as personal as your search history, and posts like these make it obvious that people at Uber are thinking hard about putting those data to use.

There's a lot lurking under what at first glance appears to be merely a poorly-considered sophomorish post.
Ok, that's pretty neat, going on my Christmas list ;) Thanks for sharing!
The company previously had $0 in cash and 10 shares outstanding. Price was $1 at market close. They issue 90 shares. In your world these magically sell for $1 and you can just reverse the transaction and everything's back where you started. Neutral transaction!

However I went from holding 10% of a company to 1% of a company. If I was holding the stock because I thought the company would sell for 100x my investment -- $100 sale to a competitor and that I'd get $10 -- well, now I'm a 1% owner and it doesn't seem like they're going to sell. And I'm also not likely to be interested in holding a $1 stock for potential payoff of $1. (Since I know their burn rate is $10/month and now increasing, I don't give a damn about the cash on hand, never did.)

How about other scenarios?

a) The company announces it's entering a brand new, high-risk market and it's issuing 90 new shares on the open market. Market opens. What's the price?

b) Same as a) but company announces it will be suspending its dividend for 1 year. Market opens. What's the price?

c) Company announces that it entered into a strategic marketing agreement with Salesforce in exchange for a private issue of 90 shares at $1. Market opens. What's the price?

d) Company announces it granted 90 options to its new star CEO and issued 90 shares to cover. Market opens. What's the price?

e) Company announces it borrowed $90 from Warren Buffett at 10% interest and also gave him warrants for 90 shares at $1. Market opens. What's the price?
Looks like an extra opening brace in the example code under How it works:

static void call_cb(const struct take_str_block *blk) {
{
(*blk->cb)(blk, "world");
}
Lost languages leave traces on the brain
For anyone else wondering, CLRS refers to the "Introduction to Algorithms" book.
That won't work if you're using mDNS on the local network, as the dnsmasq resolution will hijack all queries to .local.

Really, there just needs to be a small set of reserved TLDs. This includes one for which queries should never* be issued off a given host. .local (== 127.0.0.1) would have been ideal, but zeroconf slurped it up first. I'd put my vote in for .dev, but the Wikipedia link indicates that Google's looking to score it. :-P
I like the color scheme! I think it's refreshing since every polished website is light-colored. What do I know about UI design though? Not much...
is it like http://www.unirest.io?
BICEP2 all over again? Researchers place Higgs boson discovery in doubt
I was wondering what that means too - maybe the strange unit ($103 kWh per hour) is a clue to what they are talking about. Remember this is temporary storage for wind or solar energy, presumably to be extracted when the sun goes down or the wind stops turning the blades.
Or, as I posted elsewhere in this thread, just setup dnsmasq for a very straightforward way to wildcard an entire TLD to 127.0.0.1. See [1] for setup details on OS X, which should be easily adaptable to other *nixen.

[1] http://passingcuriosity.com/2013/dnsmasq-dev-osx/
"what other people are willing to pay" is also "aggregated peoples' opinions"