skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally don't really care about what information they collect. I do hugely care who they give that information to & what they do with it.

Haven't heard anything about Google wholesale handing all my data over to anybody who clicks a couple buttons to sign up to their developer program though.

I'm guessing Facebook has the technical expertise to allow 3rd parties to run aggregate (non identifying) queries on the consenting users' data on servers they control and only allowing certain aggregated data, as well as limiting the number and type of queries 3rd parties are running.

Guess it's easier to just let anybody have at it to prove how valuable their platform/data is.
You are old enough to remember a world before Google, yes?
I typed http://DeltaAirlines.com into my browser's address bar, looking for info about Delta Airlines. I didn't click a link from another website or copy it from a brochure. Why is that trespassing?
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A consideration of real property illustrates nothing about URLs. Speech is a much more apt comparison, in that one host says one thing, and then another, if it freely chooses to do so, responds by saying something else. (In Canada, though, the speech comparison might not help much?) This comparison is much more cogent than anything involving a "trespasser". Of course, authoritarians prefer the stupid comparison.
> with no cost to them.

or to the owner of the car!
So, on the one hand, I really would like a GDPR equivalent law in the US.

OTOH, anyone who says they clearly understand the implications of GDPR for their site has either spent a lot of money on lawyers or is lying. Let alone someone who has implemented it. Privacy by design requires deletion of data after legitimate interests and/or consent have expired, probably (!!!) in 3rd party systems. How, precisely, do you implement that?

Can you shadow-delete accounts for some period of time to allow users to change their minds? If no, what UI do you put on a "delete my account" button that has absolutely no undo, even in the 24h regrets period?

Do people have GDPR privacy rights over eg comments on YC that may mention them by nym?

Given the GDPR covers EU residents (not just citizens), as an American can I buy a plane ticket to Dublin and start requesting full data dumps? What rules are those provided to me under, and how do you make software that can do that?
No but it used to be pretty common to intercept/modify UDP packets bi-directionally and build simple aim bots/etc.
I think it’s more that “fuck the elitists” is a tune that can be morphed into from nearly any other tune.
There are two things I like to do: 1) Avoid reading the news in the morning -- it's a rabbit hole that can suck you in and crush productivity. And, 2) Move my phone from my pocket to the deep part of my bag -- this helps me avoid the desire to check it every 15 minutes.
It... it is accessible from a link

That's what a url with an id in it is

a link
But lots of things are legal or not based on what typical people would do or think. "Battery" is contact a normal person would find offensive. So touching someone's shoulder to get their attention is not battery, but poking someone in the rib might be. More relevantly, implied licenses to access property are defined by reference to what a normal person would consider implied. So an invitation to enter a store implies a license to access the parts a normal person would assume they can access, and not parts a normal person would assume they are not supposed to access.

It's not a technical shell game. If you asked your mom, "hey, do you think they meant to have people be able to access those documents, where you can only get to them by editing numbers in the URL," she would say "no." That's what defines what is legal or not in this context.
I'm glad to hear that you aren't influenced by these tech giants, but the problem is that most people are. When these tech companies can greatly influence elections and popular opinion, we should question their morals and decide how much personal data they should be able to access.
There's a missing step after reinstalling the OS of running one of more apt-get commands to reinstall the software. Windows doesn't have apt-get of course. I do tend to have software installed in my home directory (stuff I wrote or at least compiled myself) and generally it would still work after replacing the OS. Missing shared libraries could break it, but it's not the sort of software where that's an issue.

If a Linux system has proprietary software installed, you'd probably also have to copy /usr/local and/or /opt. Hopefully it would be statically linked or supplying any share libraries it needed but I suppose there's no guarantee.
But how would it get through Congress? Trump is essentially incapable of pushing legislation that Congress doesn't already support...
>What's the typical walking time to the toilet in a large warehouse?

I work in one of the largest FCs in the network and even when I've had to walk up or down flights to find a bathroom that was empty (only one per side per floor, and one toilet) I didn't pass the ten minute limit before getting flagged for time off task.

Although it is annoying having fifteen minutes of a thirty minute break be taken up by walking to and from the breakroom, and the expectation of having to arrive early enough to scan into a Kiva on time, pod gaps or no.

I don't doubt at all that this happens, though, or that Amazon drives some people to this kind of behavior. I think it depends on the facility and the management.
There is no crime involved.

Cite the law that bans the exact kind of contractual agreement that would cover the claimed situation.
Am I paraphrasing this correctly:

> Microsoft-branded ARM microcontrollers running an embedded linux distribution. Microsoft rolls out security updates over Azure to reduce the risk of the device becoming part of a botnet.

It sounds great.
> Generally speaking with modern Windows, it's the user's installed software that's the problem rather than the OS.

It's the same problem on Linux... sudo {apt-get install,pacman -S,whatever} $blah and now have fun setting up and restoring everything in /etc/, ~/, /var, ~/.config/, etc. to just like it was before.
From the article, it looks like precipitation has varied normally, but temperature has been increasing:

> Now, the researchers say, warming climate appears to be pushing the divide east. In the northern plains, rainfall has not changed much, but temperatures are going up, increasing evaporation from the soil. Further south, concurrent shifts in wind patterns are in fact causing less rain to fall. Either way, this tends to push western aridity eastward. Data collected since about 1980 suggests that the statistical divide between humid and arid has now shifted closer to the 98th meridian, some 140 miles east.

You can see the statewide temperature increase over time here: http://climate.ok.gov/index.php/climate/climate_trends/tempe...
"What do they eat?"[0] is an obnoxious and repetitive question certain readers will ask when engaging a fictional world... but even when you don't consciously ask it, your brain will likely notice the answer's presence / absence while it determines the level of immersion you feel.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvwlt4FqmS0 explores this in the context of video games...
A "link" is a DOM element in a web page which references a URL, but a URL is not itself a link. To point a finer point on it: the fact that a URL is referenced in a link means that a user is supposed to see and access it.
The car industry killing public transport is absolutely not well documented. Public transport was highly unpopular at that time and most systems were in dire need of repair after deferred maintenance accumulated during the war. People wanted cars and did not see the downside. Rewriting what happened now as an industry killing off services has more to do with modern politics than actual historical records.
I’d add a CSS3 text-shadow [1] to make the text more legible against the background image. There are other UI tricks to achieve the same goal as well. Also, I think this would be one of the rare cases where adding scrolling parallax effects would be valuable. It is, after all, a visual product.

[1] https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_text-shadow.asp
If they're my door handles, then yes. If they're public doors, then yes. Why, just yesterday, I tried the door of my favorite coffee establishment where the Open light was on but, unbeknownst to me, they had closed early.

The kid got documents on a public facing server. He did nothing wrong.
I had a zune. It had a resistive touch screen with terrible accuracy that needed manual calibration every now and then.
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You are saying that ordinary people don't know what a URL actually is. This is ridiculous. It takes a certain level of computer illiteracy to never notice that you can access stuff by typing into the address bar directly, or by modifying what's already there.

It also doesn't take a computer whiz to use DownThemAll to enumerate URLs and download them all. They even have a dedicated function for this!

Yes, one does have to have some computer literacy to be able to do that. No, they don't have to be out of the ordinary.
No, it's much more like calling the government on the phone and asking a series of questions. Or like sending them a series of letters. Or entering a government office during business hours and conducting business there. We don't need a metaphor, there are already laws in place governing how we speak to our public servants and how they respond.
That's not true at all, for instance a number of the records that are part of the download were indexed by Google.[1]

So it's more like going in to your library, using the card stack, learning about a book, going to the shelf it is on, and then looking at all the books on the same shelf.

Somebody noticed that you were looking at all the books and called the cops on you. The cops break in and arrest you for looking at books. They tell you that the bookshelf is off-limits and has personal information.

Sure, the library creates it's own card stack and google is an external service; however if you design websites for a living you expect google to perform that functionality.

I mean, I designed a service where we wanted to make it easy to share private information, so we didn't use authorization. However I realized that if I wanted the data to be private I should use a suitably long non-consecutive random ID for the resource. If anyone is guilty of criminal misconduct, it's the person who designed this asinine system or the executive who allowed it to be used on the internet.

Hell, I'd go so far as to say that the fact that the exact same system is still being used across the US is a sign that the company who runs the system is criminally negligent.

[1] https://evandentremont.com/some-information-on-the-freedom-o...
osh gets extensibility by reading a file on startup (~/.oshrc by default). That file is Python, and contains both configuration (e.g. database login info, ssh login info), and functions that can be used in osh commands.
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No it's the opposite, static websites are just static files, they work without requiring backends. JavaScript on the front-end is usually static files, but this enables first class support for modern JavaScript while losing nothing else about static websites.
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You really need to shrink that file.
Google did indeed index these files according to the following article:

https://evandentremont.com/some-information-on-the-freedom-o...
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This is more to the likes of your friend inviting you over but telling you to not open a certain door in their house. It's not illegal to then open that door, but it would be to break or pick the door's lock and then open it.
> I personally don't really care about what information they collect

If the government said "let's make a database of every Jew in America," people would get rightfully riled up. Yet we've allowed a single entity to assemble a database orders of magnitudes more detailed.
The videos seem to show an MT3620 device, seems to be made by MediaTek [1]. Looks like they are targeting a Cortex-A7 + Cortex-M4 chip. First time I've seen an A series core in this type of chip.

It looks like a developer gets to program the A7 and 2xM4F cores whilst the WiFi radio and Microsoft's "secure" Pluton thing run on a Andes N9 and Cortex M4 core respectively. I assume it is those cores which will be auto-updated in an attempt to defend against attack.

[1] https://www.mediatek.com/products/azureSphere/mt3620
I think there is a great deal in common that people share within a "generation". It's just that they aren't all the same things.

Some of us grew up watching the same shows, some didn't watch TV at all. Some are lazy, and some have a stronger work ethic than any other generation. So I agree that it's rather useless.
People who know what they are doing.

Honest communication.

A manager who truly supports both, and who understands the domain thoroughly. And who is willing to -- and politically capable of -- running some interference, when necessary.

100% assignment, or close to it -- a real team. Not 20% this team, 10% that team, and oh help these guys out, but not over 2 hours a week. Yeah, people may get "loaned out" once and a while, for a week or two, maybe even a month. But no steady-state divided loyalty and demands from management.

And even when you're on loan, you know who you belong to. See further, above, re "running interference".

P.S. What I mean in part is, with a seasoned team and good management, this actually facilitates work. People are enabled to solve problems -- including independently. Belonging somewhere, and having effective management, help to keep external BS from gaining too much traction on them. These are people who want to do their job and do it well. And who can think for themselves and make good choices independently, while also communicating them clearly and without feeling -- or feeling the need to be -- overly defensive.

At least, this is what I saw on one of the most effective teams I was assigned to, with several remote members. Physical location didn't matter -- the rest did.
If you have two devices in a house and one never accesses Google and the other does, Google will know it's you using the non-Google device each and every time.

There's more to mining you then cookies and tracking pixels. They use IPs, hardware and software profiling, behavioural patterns, and even the way you type on your keyboard (this is very, very accurate.)

In short: you need a "clean room" (Tails) every time you go online and you need to change where you're coming online from (VPN). You can also use tools to change your keyboard/typing "profile" so as to cripple that means of tracking. Oh and you can't login to virtually any online account at all, ever, because these cookies can be used too.
I'm still missing the step of how I preserve any proprietary software the user installed (equivalent to preserving or copying /opt and /usr/local in Linux).

Otherwise it may be similar in principle, just somewhat user-unfriendly in the Windows version. /etc/passwd is a bit easier than HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList.
> They are basically explaining cookies and embeds/iframes to a non-technical audience — no more, no less.

Right but the main question was whether they were getting data on people from data brokers, and they responded by answering a completely different question.
I think the former developer of process monitor and process explorer is now CTO of azure if memory serves me correctly.
It _potentially_ paves the way for a net increase in functionality. If you can make changes without worrying about if it breaks some obscure architecture that you know no one is using, that _could_ make the process smoother and thus lead to the easier inclusion of functionality that will actually be used.
Ugh, this comment has reminded me of the disgusting dystopian fascist police state we find ourselves in; I immediately thought, "I'm sorry, but Mr. Deitrich's dead. I thought they'd arrest him, but when they found a Koran in his house, they had him executed."
Google, that hotbed of criminal activity, is displaying links to and even accepting paid advertising for these illegal devices that can access telecommunications systems reachable only by editing numbers!

https://www.google.com/search?q=robodialer\

If you asked your mom, "Am I free to access all the
public-facing information on the Government Freedom of Information server", what would she say? The technical details of how to make the connection are irrelevant. My mother doesn't know how to connect to a BBS, does that mean that anyone accessing a BBS is breaking the law?
We don't need both. 10 toasters is more then enough to fulfill our needs.
That reminds me of the short story "Beginner's Luck" By Poi Lass.

It is part of a series examining what happens to people that discover they have a minor super-power.

It was...possibly the single worst experience of my life,
feeling that slip away, and now having recent
crystal-clear memories of how much that fog had been
complicating my life.

I should warn you that the overarching theme of this story aligns almost perfectly with this comment.

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These analogies are not helping. Here's what actually happened: the accused allegedly sent requests to a web server asking "may I please look at the document with id X?" for various values of X. Each time the web server had the option to say "no, you may not", or even "no, that document doesn't exist." Instead, it responded each time by sending the requested document.

That's all that happened: someone used HTTP in the way it's intended to be used, and inferred quite reasonably that the people who set up that web server knew what they were doing and meant to set it up that way. It turns out those people didn't know what they were doing, and they got embarrassed about it.
if your program calls system call or random function which KLEE couldn't handle, some parts of code may not be tested.
KLEE uses its special libc (uclibc) to deal with that cases in glibc. To solve this problem perfectly, we usually uses S2E instead of KLEE in large and complex softwares (http://s2e.systems/)
It's not an anti-tracking thing.

It's so you can't log in and read stuff, or get sucked down a distracting click-hole of videos, jokes, chit-chat and bullshit. It breaks the reflexive bookmarks, links from other sources and general habitual url visiting.
On reflection I think the metaphor itself is a red herring; we're always using them because they serve a great purpose. Tell an aspiring developer they can use goroutines to build a decently concurrent app, without much fuss, and they'll be delighted because the language provides a metaphor for it (way beyond a simple abstraction); tell them they have to understand mutexes, locks, processes, forks, and you've lost them.

What I see is a tendency towards the metaphor because that abstraction itself poses a challenge on top of the original one and the original problem itself is less interesting than the linguistic magic layered on top of it. You can talk at length about how bad the dog > animal OOP example is but you won't have much to say about OOP without that.

It's basically bike-shedding.
Poor analogy. What he was doing (incrementing an ID to access a series of files) is more like leafing his way through a filing cabinet. A filing cabinet that was ostensibly filled with public-access files, and he was told he was allowed to be in the filing cabinet.

So while going to the filing cabinet to get the file he'd been directed to, he leafed through other files too. Why not? They're all public information, since they're sitting here in the unlocked filing cabinet with all of the other public information files.

Turns out some of them were mislabeled, and were private information in the public information filing cabinet.

Not so weird, not so antisocial, not his fault, shouldn't be his problem.
>He estimates he has around 30 terabytes of online data on hard drives in his home, the equivalent of "millions" of web pages.

Wow.
We're not accountable for others choices. It's not on the private sector to play parent
They track everything because others do it too. They also seem to imply that it's a totally normal thing for anyone to be doing this. The tone of this piece is really astounding.
Computers are dumb pieces of property. They are not capable of speech (though people might use them for speech), nor are they capable of "choos[ing]" to do anything. Analogies that anthropomorphize computers are nonsensical.

The only people here are the teenager and the property owner. And the intent that matters is the intent of the property owner. Did the property owner intend those documents to be publicly accessible? Would a reasonable person have assumed that those documents were not intended to be publicly accessible, because they could only be accessed by editing a URL?
Installed a chrome plugin that restricts my access to all social media, Reddit and some news sites between 8am-6pm only allowing a total of ten minutes access through out the day. Massive time sink.

Also, got a whiteboard which I mark out the important tasks for the day. It's a bit messy at the moment though. If everything is important then nothing is important.
You could just keep a record of to whom you gave each UUID?
I've sent a few emails to Nir asking to license a few of his applications, not no replies.

Open sourcing the entire thing with both a decent license would be great.
Can you tell me what I need to do to make a gdpr compliant website?

Is it the hacker news mindset that you should need a law degree to launch a website now?

GDPR is so bad that I would rather make a HIPAA compliant service than a GDPR compliant service.
I'm curious as to why neither the Cadillac line nor the Michigan/Woodward lines extend up into the Pointes, yet St. Claire Shores has a major hub. Grosse Pointe Park in particular is quite walkable, especially in the older areas that were build primarily for house servants.
That makes sense. My downfall is double-clicking on a phrase, then right-clicking to search and then hours later...

Not quite the same, but it sounds similar...
One of the biggest problems with that approach in NYC is that they simply don't know what's under the streets.

There's multiple articles about the issue, but this article from the NY Times does a good enough job illustrating the problem: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/18/nyregion/new-...
I believe this has always been Elon Musk's strategy. Double down on his own projects. He's been pretty successful at it, as yet.
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Ahh - nice!
You are correct, particularly in an industrial environment with lots of sensors etc. These are typically on a closed network, which gives us the Network of Things, or NoT.