skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't even need to; your telco can know your home address based on a week's worth of location data, and could likely determine more about you based on where you go to work, shop, etc. Humans are creatures of habit, so it's relatively easy to draw inferences from simple patterns (i.e. if you spend 6-8 hours in the same location every night, that's probably where you live.) All it takes is one time checking your e-mail from an IP address to forever link that IP address to you. Know enough IP addresses someone has connected from and you can come up with a pretty good picture of their friend circle, their movements, how old they probably are, etc.

I work in the telecom industry, and this behavior exists because it's not explicitly illegal. This type of data mining is just scratching the surface of their capability -- turns out that a combination of about 30 seconds worth of data scraped off http traffic (not https, though even https can tell you something) and a location are enough to identify most individuals and link them to a profile in a DMP -- which can tell you all sorts of information like which products you've purchased recently (both online and in brick and mortar stores with a credit card), any relevant demographic information, and even what kind of porn you like.

The real restraint on this has been in the use of this information. Marketers have been remarkably conservative in using this information; likely for fear of scaring off customers with "creepy" data. But rest assured they know more about you than you do yourself.
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I completely agree. I'm surprised that the HN community, which so often points out poor science in other articles, in this case seems to include a lot of people posting personal anecdotes about their diets.

For those people, I think it's very nice that you had a good experience dieting. Your story isn't science however, and the rest of us aren't going to learn anything generalizable from it. Perhaps you should be posting to a reddit support group?
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What. The. F*ck?

People are being tracked for trading advantage and that is not at all illegal? Not inside trading at all? How the hell did we get _here_?
> An elementary school in Gaithersburg, Md., has banned homework altogether in favor of 30 minutes of nightly reading.

Is this reading that's supposed to go on at home? I'm now confused as to how the article is trying to define homework.

But yeah, when I was in school there'd be 8 hours at school, then 3 hours of homework. And the homework was all busy work and the time spent in school was mostly pointless as well. School probably killed my innate desire to learn more than anything else in my life. It took me a while after I graduated enjoy it again.
I like the self-update and its simple operation. The hand-wave seems to be gimicky, but it looks quite useful.

As for the design, I think Apple's Airport Extreme looks much nicer, and more importantly, the Asus onHub as glowing base. Anything that has LED or glowing lights will not pass my wife, especially if it is placed anywhere prominent in the living area.
Hold up, 6'2" and 155lbs is starving to death? I'm not suggesting that he in fact wasn't, different bodies and all, but I'm that height and weighed that much for most of my teen years being healthy and active. Didn't realize how dire my situation was!
There's a huge difference between a) not finding an effect, and b) finding that there is no effect. The former is the default result, and is what you get when your test lacks statistical power (from having a too low sample size). It sucks that the former often gets reported as the latter in the press.
The Ant has possibly the largest brain/body mass ratio in the entire animal kingdom. Which is possibly why there are 10 million more ants per human on the planet. That's a smart brain in my book.

Having said that I am all for mass ant sacrifice to figure out the magic.
Everyone who posts lipids on /r/keto has horrible cholesterol. Then the other readers of the sub chime in that it's okay to have high cholesterol. Don't worry about it! Check out this TED talk!
I said no. I don't see the difference between a missile dropped by a drone or a remote controlled roadside bomb.
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Google already takes into account searches that indicate mental health and sometimes shows related ads. Currently this is unregulated.

Also in general Google is no worse(and probably much better) than current companies who sell mental health drugs who got fined for drugging children with risky drugs illegally , etc.

So who knows, Maybe Google's involvement , and it's unique control structure(controlled by real people who seem to care, and not by the psychopathic being called "the corporation") would improve healthcare.

Also ,some of this don't necessitates monitoring of search queries - for example there's some research about using EEG to monitor people with bipolar disorder - so maybe some of this monitoring could be done locally, in the name of privacy.

But there are also ethical questions - for ex. if some social pressure could push someone who would suffer from mental health issues to getting treated and preventing far worse results in the future - what should we do ?
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CISA impacts more people, to say the least
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The New York Times is especially guilty of this, the more so in its health and science reporting. I noted and specifically called out, IIRC, the LA Times for specifically referencing and linking a source.

The Times needs to get with the times.
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It's a new paper that summarizes - the previous title was "Intel x86 considered harmful (new paper)". It is very easy to draw an inference that a new revelation to consider the Intel x86 is harmful has come from that title - that was my only problem. I enjoyed reading the article.

It was a narrow complaint about the title as submitted to HN - the current title "Intel x86 considered harmful – survey of attacks against x86 over last 10 years" is a lot more insightful as to the nature of the article, and less inflammatory (although I'd guess that it was unintentional).
Here's a char that shows what goes into electricity prices in Germany: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Strompreis-zusammensetzu...

25% is electricity generation, 23% is transmission and bookkeeping, 7% electricity tax, 16% sales tax, 21% EEG-Umlage (renewables reallocation charge), 6% concession levy, and <2% other taxes.

So if you add up all the taxes and levies, they make up half the cost (52%).
This mirrors some of the findings of Dr. John M. Gottman, who studied conflict in married couples and found that having your significant other hold you in disgust is so stressful that it can have a negative effect on your immune system.
Well there are 40 different exchanges with which to trade in the US alone, Canada adds another 10.

So there are 50 different signals before you even start up your servers for the day.

Since there is no one true currency market most HFT funds make their own currency signal from anywhere from 5 - 20 different feeds, lets call it 10 to bring our list of data feeds to 60 before we get into any futures and bond markets or to Europe and Asia.

Consuming the above mentioned brings us close to 100 already.

Add in feeds from

- google trends

- analytic s about consumer trends from say 5 different providers each covering say 5 demographics across 5 sectors

- twitter data feeds aplenty, following 2-300 different hash tags representing stock #APPL

- twitter following for news feeds, like AP, Reuters, etc to do sentament analysis.

- don't forget your machine readable news feeds

- now lets get into government data. FRED has 100's of data sets to parse to use as model inputs. See: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/

What are we up to, 200-300 different signals and we haven't really broken a sweat yet.

What sort of source would you like me to provide other than what I see on my computer screen and do for a living?
"Considered harmful" is like a Betteridge-baiting headline. It is important to remember that in the original article, "GO TO considered harmful", Dijkstra a) didn't choose the title; and b) was wrong about GO TO; it is tremendously useful under the right circumstances with no real substitute (except maybe for TCO). Yet how many times is "don't use goto" cited as an iron rule of programming?

So when I see "considered harmful" I've got my eye open for a potential thought-stopper, whether deliberately created or not.
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Unless she genuinely gets over it, it will almost certainly be passed on even if she is careful.
Go watch Forks over Knives on Netflix.
Awesome analysis! Quite difficult to distill something so complex into a clear and cogent analysis. Someone's MBA education certainly paid off. :)

Oracle would certainly be one of the interested parties for the go-shop. Oracle has been shaking down clients because of ambiguity around how to use virtualization (http://fortune.com/2015/09/14/oracle-plays-hardball/) so acquiring VMWare would help strengthen their hand - they could rewrite VMWare license agreements to remove any remaining ambiguity ;)

And kudos to Tucci for buying up VMWare at the right time. This deal is mostly about VMWare and Tucci spotted it at the right time.
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Well, EMC management is retiring no matter what happens -- so I don't think it would be much of a battle. I also don't think that there is much of a contest between EMC and Oracle in terms of bad behavior: while they might have been similar five years ago, Oracle has distinguished itself with its astonishingly bad behavior in the wake of the Sun acquisition (e.g. Hudson, MySQL, Java, OpenSolaris, OpenOffice, and especially Oracle v. Google) -- and this is to say nothing of their extortion with respect to cloud revenue and license auditing.[1] The big loser here (and indeed, in all of these scenarios) is the EMC customer held hostage by ancient architectures -- and I'm sure that regardless of the outcome, plenty of EMC customers will be accelerating their plans of moving towards open infrastructure...

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-customer-explains-audi...
You can't spread the cost out of "years" because the individual license is only good for a year. I won't complain about the price because that is a value judgement that everyone will have to make on their own. However, it is always disappointing to see tools like this that an individual can't simply buy. Instead you have enter into a yearly licensing deal in which you have no idea what this software will cost in 12 months or even whether the company behind it will continue to be in business. These type of yearly licensing deals are the norm in enterprise environments, but they are harder to justify as an individual developer.
Isn't this like Playgrounds for Swift, which is statically typed. Playgrounds are still a bit hard to work with IMO. Can't build interactive apps, for example. And I can't figure out UIView animations:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33338225/uiview-animation...

However, they are a small step in Bret Victor's vision.
I can't take any credit for that! It's what Algolia returned.
This sounds again like a problem of a system that is trying to educate a thousand different kids with a thousand different lifestyles and a thousand different home lives and a thousand different living situations all the same way, because it still operates on the basis of the organization system of the industrial revolution. Hell, we still organize our kids by their date of manufacture.

Every time I read one of these it reads like "We're trying to make this 1940's era system work but it just keeps sucking more and more" and yet every time someone says we should just obliterate this thing and come up with something better, they always get shouted down by the educational establishment.

unquietcode up there has a great thought, and I know I'm deep in it, but yes, I got successful in howling opposition to, not because of the education system. We sit our kids in tiny desks and have them do clerical work for 9 hours a day while high school dropouts drive Bugatti's and we wonder how our kids intrinsically know that school is worthless.
I meant what browser will the embedded system run?
"but there's a 9th 32 bit core which runs all the time, even when the machine is powered down"

So it's like the situation on mobile phones, with their baseband processors. Except on a general purpose computer.

Awesome.
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Sounds great so far. There would have to be a temporary switch for 911 emergency calls from the user-endpoint. I have heard that VOIP services are not compatible with the phone/location trace programming necessary for emergency dispatch centers.
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No, it's more about understanding consumer sentiment about a product category or company based on mining consumer information in aggregate. For example, a hedge fund could know how many people went inside a Wal-Mart over the last few months based on cellular location data. If there's an unfavorable downturn in store traffic, the hedge fund can shift its investments based on information that Wal-Mart won't report for another few months.

> Tracking elected officials should reveal who influences whom, and who's bribing whom. It may be possible to detect bribery to the level of establishing probable cause for an investigation in that way.

The way political fundraising is done in the US, most bribes look like legitimate campaign finance money. In some states, it's even legal for a candidate to simply redirect whatever is in his campaign fund directly into his own bank account after the election. And even in states where that is illegal, 501(c)4 / SuperPACs allow politicians to do whatever they want with the money with no oversight.

With laws like that, why even bother to investigate bribery?
That's the price for private costumers, price for commercial users is lower and what producers get is even lower except in high demand times.
This company is looking less and less like they're struggling to develop new technology, more and more like a deliberate sham. Given that so much of their support thus far has been due solely to the Cult of Disruption, I can't help but wonder if news like this might make at least a few investors consider a return to good old-fashioned due diligence before placing their bets.
Similarly, an adorable image placeholder service (so you can choose the most appropriate images for your project).

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I'm not privy to what Two Sigma do, but I'm guessing all the tracking data they have is anonymized, did I just make up a word?, and of a more general trend variety.
OK, fair point - that sounds more likely.
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I am a graduate student at UC Davis and a member of the GSA, and while I am very glad this is and has been happening, I have a long-standing complaint: These policies are not Open Access policies.

They facilitate and encourage open access and availability, but does not require it; that is an Open Access Option, not Policy. This is essentially an opt-out system (good!) but the opt-out waiver is very easy. We can all imagine certain publishers demanding proof of an opt-out waiver before accepting a paper. It's unclear to me how they deal with multiple authors differing on opinion, or from different institutions, but those are thorny issues.

Additionally, users can choose from any CreativeCommons license. I love CC, but CC-BY-NC-ND is VERY different from CC-BY. Both OA? Maybe, under a fairly narrow definition of access; PLOS defines open access as "unrestricted access and unrestricted reuse"[1], so to them this isn't OA.

It is a fine policy and a net-positive, but it's not an Open Access policy.

1: https://www.plos.org/open-access/
This kind of feature would be amazing for security if it wasn't going to be immediately abused with DRM encumbered vendors, MS, and vague yet menacing government agencies trying to lock users out of their own devices.

If I could provide all the keys my machine could be completely locked down and damn near impossible to break into even with complete physical access and a ECE degree.
Similar here. I too have used my CC for refills and may have given my name for caller ID purposes, but I don't think it was mandatory nor do they have my SSN or other hard details on my identity.

AFAIK you shouldn't have to get a throwaway phone either. "SIM Card Kit" or "Bring your own phone/device" may be keywords to research -- you should be able to get a SIM that you can put in any GSM phone, and it will come with instructions about a website to visit, or phone number to call, to activate it. If they insist on names etc and it's prepaid, you could give a fake name since it will have no bearing on your ability to use it, although I'd be worried that it might be illegal for some stupid reason.
The problem with homework is the proportion of busywork assigned.

A typical math textbook consists of several columns of fifty nearly identical problems, of which the teacher typically assigns thirty.

I don't need to solve thirty quadratic equations by factoring in order to demonstrate that I know how to solve quadratic equations by factoring. The first three or four will suffice.

And don't get me started on the astonishing number of assignments consisting of crosswords, word searches, paint-by-numbers, and similar activities with zero academic value.
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> (I don't think there's sex ed in schools even).

Depending on the state, there isn't exactly sex ed in American schools either.
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It seems like the only skill that homework really builds is tolerance for being micromanaged, which I'm not sure is a good skill anyways.

I recall (with angst) the ridiculous way that homework was graded in school (x% of credit taken away for every day the assignment was late). This sets people up for a terrible relationship with work by making them focus on short-term rewards/penalties instead of longer term goals, while disadvantaging individuals who don't respond well to such a micromanaged model.

If we really want kids to develop well-rounded skills, we should make work about longer term projects, whose goal is very well articulated and its purpose is clear to students.

At the least, we should provide multiple paths for students to make the grade, one based on homework for those who naturally do well with that environment, and another based on long term projects for those who are naturally more "bursty" in their learning process. You can still administer tests/quizzes for both types of learners to gauge their progress.
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well, it becomes painfully obvious I ripped off that design. I am bad with css/html. There is also http://lorempizza.com
Author here.

I used the options you mention before, however I found it highly unreliable. I have replaced them with better manual error handling and tests. Please review the latest code. I'm looking forward to any reported issues.
It looks interesting, but there's no information on how I can take it out for a spin. Do you have any additional information, documentation or a screencast?
In NYC and SF, you can't generally rent for a fixed term:

"Can my landlord evict me and use my stabilized apartment for his or her family, and how many apartments in the building can the landlord take?

One of the advantages of being a rent stabilized tenant is the statutory right to renew your lease."

http://www.nycrgb.org/html/resources/faq/rentstab.html

Once you lease a unit you essentially hold weakly transferable long term property rights to the unit. You also own, via local zoning regulations, the partial right to prevent neighbors from doing new things with their property.
Between this and the "wireless energy over ultrasound" scam I'm starting to wonder if VCs actually do any due diligence at all.
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Thank you for reminding me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... . I knew this was a thing, but I forgot the name of it.
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Thank you for the suggestions and the link. I especially like the ideas for soundproofing and interior insulation. I also like the idea of running conduit, at least in key locations. I plan to have a basement with the living areas on the main floor, and just 2 bedrooms or so upstairs. One or two conduit runs from the basement to the attic should make it relatively easy to get a wire anywhere in the house.

I also wouldn't have thought of the cooling issue for the computer closet, so I will make sure that if I plan to enclose it I consider the airflow.
This is crazy, I don't know where I would be today if I hadn't done homework. Homework was where I really and truly learned. Independent work is so important, and it's totally different than doing something with a bunch of students in a classroom setting. Sure, the education system probably could be improved a lot. But you can't just remove homework from the current system and expect there will be no negative consequence to that.

My daughter is in Grade 1 French Immersion in Canada and she is assigned a few sight words every week in French to memorize in addition to some French sounds (2 letter sounds). On top of that we try to do a bit of math here and there and some English. The teacher tells us to make it as fun as possible, so we try, sometimes I turn her sight words in to a quick board game. For math, we try to use the Bedtime Math books or the app. For reading, we read princess readers which she loves. Sometimes we try other readers and we push it, only to find out she really hates them, and sometimes the French sounds memorization is tough and painful. Can't imagine asking the teacher for less homework though, it seems like just the right amount.
We had block schedule with 4 classes per day, but alternated days for 8 classes total. Long, 100 minute class periods allowed for lecture+homework/help time during the day.

Fridays were an alternate set of interesting classes, from SAT prep, to bowling, to computer programming. I couldn't recommend this system more. If you must have public school, this is a great way to structure it.
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IMHO as a married person, this is a fantastic area for research! The basic concept makes intuitive sense and I'm inclined to believe that feeling very positively about one's marriage is better for a person's health then feeling ambivalent about the relationship.

However, with a sample size of only 94, I'm skeptical that this study is representative of US marriages at large. I'm also skeptical that it is possible to control for the influence of age and generational effects given that the couples have been married from 1 to 41 years in such a small study.

While interesting and important as a research topic, this really feels like it should be taken with a grain of salt.
What's interesting is that venture capitalists are slamming media outlets for reporting on the issue.

Here's a rather silly rebuttal to a recent Theranos piece on The Information from Dave Morin: https://twitter.com/williamalden/status/658705178523258880

"Isn't it time as Millenials that we try to use the Internet to unearth deeper facts and see through these traditional smear campaigns?"