skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Truly understanding this to the point where you are "caught up" with the field may take 2 years, but one of the big blessings of deep learning is abstraction. You can go from very high level "black box" approaches simply using and following example code from Torch, Theano, or Caffe, all the way to nitty gritty study of the details of various architectures, how to optimize them, and how to apply them.

Watching videos of presentations and reading slides is often much easier than comprehending papers, though ultimately the paper should have much richer detail.

Personal anecdote: Two years ago I just started learning about these things, coming from an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. Now I am in graduate school for deep learning and AI working to push things forward, one small step at a time. It is totally possible to learn this stuff in a reasonable amount of study, and there are more free resources than ever. Note that I had a full time engineering job until 6 months ago... doing something totally different!
This is a collection of real world python projects written in 500 lines or less.
https://github.com/aosabook/500lines
The goal was to be a resource for intermediate python developers to be able to look at real world applications. Hope this helps.
Mesosphere Raises $36M, Launches Its Data Center Operating System
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according to The Washington Post, the company was so lax about such sensitive data that it even allowed a job applicant to view people’s rides, including those of a family member of a prominent politician.

worries me a lot more than

a 2012 post on the company’s blog that boasted of how Uber had tracked the rides of users who went somewhere other than home on Friday or Saturday nights, and left from the same address the next morning.

Obviously Uber has this sort of data, and it can use it in various aggregated ways. What's more important than demonstrations of what information they could pull out of this is how serious they are about protecting it from access, either from people who want to buy that information or employees simply snooping around. I don't care if someone uses my data in an aggregate way to do something (e.g. facebook) as long as I am not personally identified.
It's an opinion piece, not a news article. His main argument is the last sentence: What’s happened is that the kinds of jobs that would get them off the couch [and motivated to marry] have become scarce in our unequal economy.
So........how is this not 100% related to trade volume? That is the one and only factor that matters here as far as I am aware.
> But IMO, for Detroit to get "fixed", we just need a change of MIND (which can be more difficult than getting sustainable energy, but seriously, could change in 1 day, for free, if we had MLK Jr. type people on the ground).

Yea, care to explain?
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Second design/attempt is always the better version. Once he has struggled with the first version, with whatever language, the second version will be easier, with whatever other language.
Thanks. As I said in my comment I know my ignorance and I'm looking for enlightenment (my confession didn't stop the downvotes though)

I do not "see" any clear algorithm in the code (no step-by-step procedure). I see recursion only.

¿Can you explain in words what this code is doing?

¿Can you implement this without using recursion?
Uber argues that it’s doing only what other technology companies regularly do. That may be true but it only underlines why we need oversight mechanisms that cover all of them.

Such as?

If you're giving your data freely to companies, I don't understand what kind of oversight mechanism could or should protect you.

Imagine a hypothetical oversight mechanism, then imagine the consequences to tech companies. Imagine the consequences to startups. Not Uber; I'm talking about tiny, early-stage startups.

Airbnb and Dropbox have enriched my life. I'd hate for regulatory burden to prevent such startups from forming in the first place.

This isn't a hypothetical concern. The finance industry is so regulated that you can't easily form a finance startup without having a lot of connections or a lot of money. Same for the healthcare sector, as far as I've heard.
I did this on Saturday and will give WhimseyBox the benefit of the doubt to fix this by Mon/Tues before disputing with Amex. It's always a slow road when Amex investigates.
Although I largely agree with the premise, the author assumes that the only way to solve this problem is with government regulation. I think a better way to solve this problem is with decentralization. The problem Uber solves is one of coordination. This does not require a central intermediary like Uber. It could be solved in a decentralized manner with p2p networks. With a decentralized Uber, only you and the driver would know where you started from and where you went. Privacy would be improved.
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So, what about hispanic and african americans?

There's a world of difference between the kids brought up to choose between pre-med and pre-law, and kids brought up to stay away from the cops.
I'm not going to use the service. Everything that keeps coming out about Uber has been super shady.

I'm not the only one. Big Uber proponents who I know have stopped using their service.

It's not going to stop the masses, but if stories like this keep coming out without policy fixes they are going to lose their edge. All they are is a dispatch service.
> If you're giving your data freely to companies

You are assuming people understand this and the implications.

The fact it is buried in a legalese ToS somewhere doesn't mean people know what information is sent and how it will be used.
I'm amazed that in all this news coverage, this story hasn't risen to the top. It's far more relevant than the company in question here.

"Buying news coverage and crying misogyny in the ride-sharing industry"

https://medium.com/@PersonofAwesome/buying-news-coverage-and...
As the article says, this has got almost nothing to do with Uber, and everything to do with a regulatory regime that allows companies to do anything they like with data they collect.

Maybe the USA should start looking at the Data Protection / Privacy laws implemented by Europe and the rest of the world, instead of just dismissing them as socialist welfare-state hippy-dippy bullshit regulation getting in the way of business.
Hahaha grad students making "above median wage"? Not too many of those...
Quite a sensationalist headline. Basically what this article is saying is that Uber have all of this info on where you came from, where you are going and that we should not trust them because they do not have processes in place to ensure users information on trips taken is kept private.

While I do not disagree with the amount of data that Uber have, a company like Facebook and Google arguably know more about us than we do ourselves. Why should we distrust Uber more than any other company? However, I STRONGLY believe that companies with data like Uber should be held accountable to very high standards and any breach of privacy of said data would result in severe penalties. This is not just an Uber problem, this is a big data problem and one many companies have.

I recently quit using Uber in favour of other services like Lyft because I do not believe in Uber's lack of ethics and the way they do business. However, I don't think it is fair they are being targeted as much by the media as they currently are. As much as I dislike Uber, I don't think it is fair to single them out as some lone wolf operating in the wild big data wilderness. We need to be reasonable and stick to the facts, not speculation.

This article really tells us nothing, gives us no true reason other than a single incident (as far as I am aware of) of a privacy breach of a journalists trip to the Uber offices for an interview. There have been other reported incidents of data breaches, but without conclusive evidence, it could just be hearsay.

I am not saying that there is not an issue with companies like Uber and improper practices with data. I am also not denying that Uber have not had incidents where data has been viewed by employees or other reasons, however I am saying there is a lot of false reporting going on at the moment. We need to remain reasonable and non-objective, let the truth and facts speak for themselves. Lets not hate on a company just because everyone else is.

As this article points out, this is not specifically an Uber problem, and as such, I think the title is an inaccurate and deliberate click-bait attempt to get more viewers.
It's not only unethical, it is fraud.
Why do you claim that getting married is smarter and helps build wealth and success?
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They need to invite some undergrad CS/EE/ID majors to unleash their talents on their property for a summer or something. Would make a great research project and be a great boon to the student's talents and the couple's property and lives.
We see a lot of the most blighted areas, but out of curiosity: what's the best neighborhood inside Detroit city limits?
Hate to say it, but too bad. These companies come around bragging about how they are going to disrupt <insert target>, and push off the mess they create on some hapless schlub in most cases.

Well, fuck them. It is always a few bad apples that ruin things for the rest.
> When you're the non-technical CEO of a subscription commerce company, and you find yourself in an empty office without employees, if you're hypothetically aware that subscriptions are still active -- which you very well might not be aware of -- you have very limited options for actually fixing it.

You also have very limited options for avoiding liability for fraud. I don't think using the excuse that you were a non-technical CEO is one of them.
This is dodging the question. Again: What oversight mechanism can possibly protect users from themselves? They're sending this data, whether they understand it or not.

People keep advocating that drug use should be an educational / health issue, not a legal issue. It's ironic that in this situation, people are calling for the opposite: For the government to step in and protect them, when it's unclear how the government can help without causing all kinds of unintended consequences.

This should be an educational issue, not a legal issue. We should educate users about the ramifications of uploading this data.

Remember, if we enforce regulation, users will still upload sensitive data, and the government will still be free to take advantage of it. Whereas if users are educated about what data they upload, then the data won't exist to begin with.
From a design perspective I think MSNP was quite good - mostly text-based, simple request/response structure, and relatively easy to write a client for (and I have.) If one were so inclined and knowledgeable, it's almost possible to just telnet to port 1863 and use the raw protocol, in a similar manner to IRC. The only flaw today would be the fact that it's plaintext, but were MS so inclined to do so, I believe they could've just wrapped it in TLS.

In comparison, the Skype native protocol is highly obfuscated binary, so the few reverse-engineering efforts that have surfaced thus far have not revealed all that much. Combine that with the legal issues and it's no wonder a lot of people are still trying to hang onto MSNP for as long as they can with all the unofficial clients out there that support it. On the other hand, from a few sources including the linked blog post (http://messengergeek.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/when-is-messen...) it appears MS is trying to replace the Skype protocol with a newer version of its own MSNP, so it's not all bad.

It looks like MSNP8 is still working, but my guess is that there's something at Microsoft that relies on this protocol which is what has kept it up for so long while some of the newer intermediate versions are no longer supported:

http://wiki.dequis.org/projects/msn/protocol_versions/
> I do not believe in Uber's lack of ethics and the way they do business

THIS. They've done so much bullshit that I flat out refuse to use them. Is there a compiled list of all their wrongdoings somewhere? I'd love to refer my friends to it..
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I don't think netheril96 blamed Meld at all. Nor OS X.
Well, they seem to be in violation of the FTC's Mail Order Rule.

First, who are they? Their street address is

2409 20TH ST
BOULDER CO 80304
US

which is a house.

A Colorado corporation search gives a second address:

1738 Pearl St., Suite 2A, Boulder, CO 80302, United States

which looks like office space above a restaurant in Google Street View. Their landlord is Pearl Street Properties (http://www.pearlstreetmallproperties.com) and calling them during working hours might be helpful.

They're incorporated in Delaware, but are delinquent in filing with Colorado. Delaware corporation search only works on weekdays, so not much is available from there tonight.

The founder is Alicia DiRago. Not only is the company not communicating, her rather busy personal online life has stopped.

Here's her Twitter feed, which stopped on September 3, 2014: https://twitter.com/aliciadirago

Here's her other startup, Dismount Creative, which was last updated on August 3, 2014: http://www.dismountcreative.com/

Her personal Facebook account, last updated in January 2014: https://www.facebook.com/alicia.dirago
Definitely the right person; she's wearing a Whimseybox T-shirt in her profile picture.

She's married and lives in Boulder, CO. The address is a matter of public record, but I won't list it here. Her husband, Joseph DiRago, is an attorney in Boulder. No news items or obituaries for either of them.

This is a very tiny operation and there's probably a personal problem. This isn't a big enough business to be a scam.
Hi - I work on this product.

We do not use Gaussian Processes. For our purposes, with some customization we were able to obtain comparable accuracy from multiple algorithms, both parametric and non-parametric. Being able to study and understand the domain/data offline helps immensely with this.

Gaussian processes didn't scale up as well as some of the other algos we tried, but would have been one of our top choices otherwise.
That's fair. I would remove that first word in retrospect given the norms of HN. I believe that just came out while considering someone demanding the public exploitation of a young persons murder for his amusement.

Please mentally substitute "emotionally crippled" for my colorful language.
Check out "Path to Senior Sysadmin" talk by Adam Moskowitz

https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa10/path-senior-sysadmi...

And the LOPSA mentorship program: https://lopsa.org/mentor
I know that this must be your gut reaction to the article, because it was written less than an hour after the link was posted, and it's possible that you didn't read the blog post very carefully: it alleges two serious breaches of normative commercial behaviour that I won't characterize legally. There's firstly the failure to cancel a charge for a non-forthcoming product, of course; more seriously that the company is still signing up and charging new customers. So, with that in mind, I want to invite you to review it, because if it's a reaction that considers the full details of the matter, I have to say that it doesn't really pass the smell test, in my judgement.

You cite the failure mode of startups as a "fact of life" with regards to two particulars, and minimize the ethical responsibility of the hypothetical non-technical CEO on the basis of implied incompetence and his or her technical inability to do anything about the situation due to both his or her failure to plan for the eventuality and the actions that he or she has just taken. That leaves you with two "that's just how it is" statements and one "what can I [he] do about it anyways" statement, lined up against one "could this have been handled better? Yeah" statement. I believe you might agree that that looks like a pretty weak argument, on a second read; if not, I'm certainly interested in what you have to say about it.

If you're the non-technical CEO of a subscription commerce company in this situation, did you mean to do anything wrong? Of course not, no-one is going to assume that. Does that mean you aren't to blame and it's not your fault and you're not responsible for the situation because who knew startups were high-risk and computers are hard? In the scenario you outline, it would not give me confidence in a person to hear that he or she believed such a thing.

More notably, though, and perhaps interestingly, the author mentions that it does not give her any particular confidence in "Techstar" as a brand. Interesting because of the implicit assumption that the VC incubators are effectively vouching for the reliability of the startup and assuming a degree of governance / diligence with regards to the potential extremes of the outcome, which in turn raises the question of whether that's an idea that the incubators are selling (perhaps unwittingly) to their prospective investments. So, I think something like that might be more productive to talk about than situational ethics, really. But I didn't want to leave you with the mistaken belief that everyone had come to the same conclusions about the facts of life.
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> While I do not disagree with the amount of data that Uber have, a company like Facebook and Google arguably know more about us than we do ourselves. Why should we distrust Uber more than any other company?

I believe the point of the article was that we should not distrust Uber more than any other company; we should distrust them all equally, i.e. assume they are all misusing or failing to secure our personal data until an audit by a trusted third party (an "information fiduciary") can prove otherwise.

> However, I do believe that companies with data like Uber should be held accountable to very high standards and any breach of privacy of said data would result in severe penalties. This is not just an Uber problem, this is a big data problem and one many companies have.

The problem is that there is no incentive for the companies to treat customer data responsibly, while there are substantial commercial incentives for them to misuse it, or at best to reduce the amount they spend on securing it to the absolute minimum possible that they can get away with. And since users are poorly informed and have little power, these incentives will continue to be misaligned until third parties exist with the market or legal muscle to create negative incentives around misusing information strong enough to outweigh the positive ones.
The article was a nice refresher about 'this' subtleties, but it put too much work into contrasting it against Java's this, instead of just laying out the actual JS rules.

To me, 'this' is JS is a lot more self explanatory than this is Java. And your article doesn't make that apparent. In JS this is just another object, like any other object. It follows the exact same scoping rules as every other object.
This is pretty awesome to see. Mesosphere looks to really be serious about making Mesos a first class distributed citizen in the enterprise. Can't help but think about when Cloudera first launched with the Hadoop brain trust.
Email companies (I won't name names here) have _much_ more sensitive data than Uber does. How come the same scrutiny isn't brought to bear on them? We do know that some of the leading ones will mine your emails for targeting. I remember once I was having a little tiff with the GF, and the ads I saw were for marriage counselors and therapists. That was creepy.
Targeted? One of their executives publicly threatened a member of the media. Who was also a customer. Again and again their "leadership" makes unethical or morally questionable decisions that impact their customers, their employees and society FOR MONEY. I'm also not exactly a genius but I can at least remember "never pick a fight with a man who buys ink by the barrel."

Certainly we shouldn't trust Google (or other corps) any more than we trust Uber, but I don't see why we can't distrust all of them equally. I don't have any sympathy for Uber.
I went looking for where their docs talk about handling attachments, and couldn't find it. Can you point me in the right direction?
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> If you're giving your data freely to companies, I don't understand what kind of oversight mechanism could or should protect you.

"If you're taking patent medicines freely, I don't understand what kind of oversight mechanism could or should protect you."

"If you're eating tainted meat freely, I don't understand what kind of oversight mechanism could or should protect you."

"If you're driving on roads used by other drivers in poorly maintained cars freely, I don't understand what kind of oversight mechanism could or should protect you."

Etc. etc. etc.
Even so, I'd appreciate it if the browser vendors took additional steps to disable the detection of devtools, personally. I don't think they should be detectable under any circumstances, if that's possible to implement.
>I believe the point of the article was that we should not distrust Uber more than any other company

If that was their point, then the title they selected, "We Can't Trust Uber" does a pretty poor job at explaining that consumers should distrust companies like Uber, Google and Facebook equally. The title insinuates and singles out Uber solely, but then the article does mention other companies like Facebook and the power and data that they have. Seems the title was for click-bait purposes.

There definitely needs to be some kind of change on a regulatory level. I agree, the problem is these companies lack incentives to be responsible and treat data like a bank protecting its consumers money (a poor analogy given the GFC and all, but still).
A Very simple method to do
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Did you even read the article?

But some digging into historical census records shows that social class differences in marriage have been tied to the extent of income inequality among white Americans for at least 130 years. They also suggest that commentators who insist that the marriage gap is wholly a matter of values are almost surely wrong.
I'd settle for Thunderbird wrapping lines correctly.
It seems like Uber could be easily replaced with an open solution. Anyone working on it?
The Packard Plant caught my interest so I looked it up [1]. Most of the plant is structurally sound: Renovations started in October to turn it into a mixed use art / manufacturing facility [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_Automotive_Plant

[2] http://www.wxyz.com/news/region/detroit/demolition-and-rehab...
Hook that into http://bride.ru and you've got a winner!

More seriously, automating the process of harvesting credit card numbers and signing them up for monthly billing, then taking a cut, is evil genius.

Even more seriously, the sex-trade people were way ahead on this, by happily offering canceling customers refund checks with mind-blowingly dirty names on them to discourage deposit.
Yes, looking at the pictures, I couldn't help feeling sorry for all this immense infrastructure going to waste.
How about a boot to guile day? https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-02/msg001...
Also, issue N-1 is included in issue N (recursively) if you unzip it.
Better yet, skip all the business and political bullshit and just build the open solution with the appropriate security baked in.

Don't trust businesses, don't trust politicians, trust the code and the process that runs it.