skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Differential privacy and other formalized systems are a good choice, but if you never need to give the data back or present it as-such to the customer/inputer, you can get heuristic Pretty Good Anonymization if you understand the structure of your problem and how you're going to use it.

For example taking your example of motor vehicle trips off the top of my head, in order the things that can ID you are:

Driver's License
Name
Vehicle License Plate
Time, Location of trip
Trip Distance
Location of driver residence
Location of driver workplace

If you had a database of these things, you could apply some of the strategies in the article, and a few others to ensure no collisions.

Driver's License: Ditch it,
hash it with private key or have a lookup table
somewhere. I'd favor ditching it.
Name: Same as DL number
Vehicle License Plate: Same as DL number

For the above 3, you really may only need a few variables that are less constrained: gender, approximate age, type of vehicle so you could just compute out to those and store only that result.

Time, Location of trip: Fudge these +- random time, or +- random distance from start/finish.
Careful not to have it be a dumb random circle, Strava does this, given enough public rides I'm sure people
could figure out where I live. (maybe do this as function of population density?)
Trip Distance: Fudge +- random distance
Location of driver residence: Fudge to begin with, probably ditch if possible
Location of driver workplace: Ditto

The point is think about what you need from the dataset and deliberately mess it up so that you'd have to have the original to piece it together. Often, you don't need the exact input data, but something within a random delta of it, so just keep the stuff within a random delta.
Are you sure? They were adding 1 million users/day

http://www.thefactspeak.com/whatsapp-adding-one-million-user...

Even at $1/year - their 1.5 billion active users should be an equal amount of revenue. I'd say that's enough to cover the cost of servers and bandwidth.
Great "advice" (on a deeper level) in this book - It's scary how many of these points frequently drift on you, such as rule 1: stand up straight with your shoulders back. Peterson also lays an interesting point - you should schedule your (ideal) day as much as possible because, after all, life is essentially made up of many, many days.
If you have a $35,0000 truck with a blown transmission, then your repair-person just created $35,000 - $2,000 - whatever_that_truck_would_have_worth_as_scrap_parts.

Electricians, Plumbers, Roofers, Drywallers, auto-motive repair to some degree, are the one who actually create/repair/restore the only physical infrastructure that actually matters. My Twitter, Facebook, Instagram could all disappear, and it would probably have no (real) impact on me. But take away electricity, water, roof, walls, transportation - I'll notice within a few minutes.

In my mind, those are the people who create real wealth.
There are plenty of fat smart people. The brain does not develop, and especially does not develop knowledge, as a result of the passage of time and metabolic processes. It develops, both structurally and in terms of 'contents', solely as a response to repeated stimulus. We don't really have a word for a situation where a persons life is impoverished due to lack of intellectual stimulus, but we certainly have the condition. Some kids grow up in homes where if they ask a question, they'll get an answer. Others grow up in homes where an asked question is replied to by the parent dismissively saying 'I don't know' (sending a clear message that the child shouldn't want to know) as they turn back to reading about celebrity gossip. No amount of clean eating can overcome that sort of poverty. Internet access can, though.
Right because that's what we say about the Linux kernel too, right? If IRS is the maintainer, they still review changes. And so do all of us. If someone slips in an exploit, we'll catch it the same way every other open source project does.
Comcast fiber isn't so obscure today. My neighbor has 1 gig symmetric, but it's something like $300 a month.
> Do I think this is a good sign for Facebook's stock? Yes.

Why? Is having a person on the board that provides a moral check on the others a hazard to Facebook's stock price?
The LoC Twitter archive project never started beyond the press release.
Buy: I trust the brand over the unknowns -- usually for quality (sturdiness or longevity for something I'll use for a while; precision for engineering such as lenses). In some sectors because unknown players are difficult to distinguish from scammers. Occasionally for food - especially if there are health concerns involved (allergies; heavy metal contamination; listeria or botulism outbreaks).

Don't buy: for status symbols or prestige. Especially avoid upgrading consumables - there are $50/bottle shampoos out there, but the $5/bottle stuff is just as effective.
Of course YouTube have a right to remove every pro vaccination video from their site, I'm not disputing that. I'm just saying that they shouldn't.
> The reason for pretty much any bug found in software driven by a huge company is that there is a large disconnect between fixing bugs and profit.

Exactly. The answer to any complaint like the one described in this article (and I have similar ones about my phone all the time) is "how much would you be willing to pay to fix this?"

Of course, it doesn't help that, even if I were willing to pay to fix this, I have no way of doing so; even if, say, 100,000 or 100 million users would all be willing to pay to fix it, so that the amount in play might actually be enough to compensate a developer to do the work, we have no way of coordinating such a payment. That's not just because the companies involved are large; it's because the software running on, say, my phone is a cost center to begin with, not a profit center. The profits come from locking users into multi-year contracts, and "too many bugs/misfeatures in the software on the phone" is so far down the list of things the phone provider is worried about people switching for that there is no motivation to spend money on it.

> which might cause a bug like this to cost tens of thousands of company dollars to fix, while the benefit to each user (and therefore the company) would be a tiny fraction of a cent

But if there are 100 million users, that might still work out to a tidy profit--if the users could somehow coordinate the payment, and convince the company that the alternative to accepting the payment and fixing the problem was that all 100 million of them switch providers. In the real world, of course, this will never happen.
> It's nothing like a normal curve.

If the data comes from a sample, then it's going to normal, regardless of the underlying distribution. So the mean and median will be approximately the same.
I loved riding these bikes in China when I lived there because they were so convenient and you could find a free one pretty much anywhere. I hope the concept spreads, but with a reputation like this, convincing cities to allow for it will be tough.

They took the "ask for forgiveness later" strategy in China leading to this mess, but even with a few bikes showing up in cities around the globe, until they're really ubiquitous it isn't a game changer. The minor presence we see in cities like SF and Seattle is not nearly enough to feel the positive impacts of ubiquitous dockless bikeshares.
> In most cases, their job is to simply act as a buffer and propagate upper layer's wishes to mere mortals

Well, they're there to take care of the details of implementing the execs' orders. That is a necessary function for scale. An analogy: Field Marshal Haig wants a village taken. He doesn't shout at the infantry; rather there's a chain of command which fractally decomposes the order into a coherent plan for achieving the goal. We'll need artillery to soften the defenses, then infantry will flank the fortifications; ok put a battery here and load it up with this kind of shell; and so on down to the platoon level where little groups of soldiers will tackle micro-scale obstacles along the way (there's an enemy sniper in that church, etc.) So the reasons for hiring this layer are sound.

I'm not really arguing with you though: it does provide value to those at the top (arguably not necessarily long-term value). I just don't think, in most cases, that it's a conscious Machiavellian plan to stuff the mid-tier with remote-controlled, plausibly deniable bastards. I just think that people in those positions end up exhibiting bastardish behavior circumstantially. (Although of course if there was such a devious scheme anywhere, it'd probably be Amazon.) So I still think that it's largely intrinsic.
Remember, you aren't ripping off the shady ad companies. Actually, you are doing what they want you to do. You are ripping off the merchants (people buying ads) who just don't know better.
dont forget about interchange fees. every time you use your Azlo Visa, bank gets paid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee#/media/File:Ga...
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The sharing machinery isn't open source, mostly because it's pretty tightly coupled to our community forums, which is a custom rails application.

I know that the jupyterhub team was working on https://github.com/jupyterhub/hubshare for a while as an open source sharing solution. I've also commented in https://github.com/jupyterhub/hubshare/issues/14 and elsewhere that I think PGContents (one of the libraries I talk about in the video) could be used as a basis for many kinds of sharing (though probably not realtime collaboration).
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It’s easy for him because he distances himself from that aspect and only deals with what he wants. He hires managers to get their hands dirty for him. It’s just like how I buy my beef in a tidy packet at a glimmering supermarket and don’t have to consider the slaughterhouse at all.
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Many of them are mobikes and ofos, which are certainly not out of business. Which photograph do you think is incorrectly captioned?
Gregg shorthand
Fortunately, there is a very good polyfill[0] for it.

[0]: https://github.com/github/fetch
>"But Youtube isn't preventing the creators from hosting content elsewhere. They aren't hitting them with a slapp lawsuit. They aren't colluding with other websites to ban these videos."

Again, you're not refuting anything that anybody here actually thinks.

>"Well it is a little different. For the reason I mentioned in my post. Because youtube is the only game in town."

Exactly, which is why the devil's advocate routine is so tiring.

>"The problem, in my eyes, is that youtube can ban you, and there is no alternative place to host your videos with the same level of exposure. Having a competitive market place would solve this problem, and give video hosting sites an incentive to treat creators fairly."

I agree, but how could that actually be accomplished? If the government split up google/youtube like they split Bell, what would go to who? Would one of the Baby Youtube's get the "youtube" domain/brand? Or could they all? Would youtube.com just give you a "web portal" that impartially linked to all the various Baby Youtubes that were created by fracturing youtube? Would third party video websites unrelated to the youtube breakup get a place on that web portal?
http://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/r26.htm

... account should be taken of all objective factors, such as the costs of and the amount of time required for identification, taking into consideration the available technology at the time of the processing and technological developments.

The principles of data protection should therefore not apply to anonymous information, namely information which does not relate to an identified or identifiable natural person or to personal data rendered anonymous in such a manner that the data subject is not or no longer identifiable. ...

It's sufficient if one can't reasonably reconnect the data back to the user. It doesn't need to be NSA-proof.
Bash has programmable completion as well. See for example: https://github.com/scop/bash-completion
Bootstrap your elisp learning
BIG +1 what a joke
The network effects would have not worked, because there are many people that can not afford $10 a year. These people would have used an alternative and at the end everyone would have used that alternative (because network effects).
Why do people need to explicitly say "This is not a legal advice"? I don't need to do that normally when I am providing advice for any other topic. Why do so many online comments need to say this? Isn't it obvious? Are there any consequences?
It can be. Now they can start advertising on WhatsApp and begin to release that revenue giant.
I tried this a while ago. And while it's fun, you realise most emails are heavy in html/images/attachments and barely readable in full text form anymore... :/
A lot of AI "milestones" were actually caused by improvements in computing itself, IMO. That is, they weren't facilitated by novel algorithms or engineering solutions specific to the milestone itself. They kind of just happened, either because computers got faster (e.g. disk I/O, ram size, processor speeds and caching) or because someone finally decided to throw enough distributed computation at the problem.

People knew about the main algorithms that Deep Blue used (alpha-beta minimax with heuristic evaluation) for decades before Deep Blue existed. It was simply a matter of waiting until IBM found marketing value in dedicating a top 300 world super computer to beating Gary Kasparov
Because youtube has a de-facto monopoly on online video viewing.
at the time of accusation, WhatsApp was running on 16 servers! Erlang is idle for communication, they had like 1 million concurrent user on each server!!!
That's not true, there were tons of Mobike and Ofo bikes there, both of which are very well funded and active corporations at the moment. There are some minor incorrect statements—Didi isn't just a bike-sharing company, but they're the Chinese equivalent of Uber, the largest ridesharing company in the world, and 2nd largest e-commerce company in China—but what the article does lack is context on how things got to this point.
IBM has already shown that the machine layer and the OS layer can be separate and that progression in one does not necessarily require a full change in the other.

the method by which it works is that code compiled into a new form which can be translated on the fly to match the hardware level below it.

now what is probably trapping the IRS besides a base that not everyone full understands but the sheer complexity of what they have to deal with, the tax code and whims of those in Congress.
I think that's actually literal fire-hose, rather than rope. It's pretty handy for delimiting R/C car tracks!
It may end up being both, though, since you're also making the shady ad company's impressions less effective.
I guess that people buy iPhones because they want iPhones, not because of iMessage, at least here in Europe. If they would insist in using only iMessage they would message only a few of their friends. Everybody I know uses WhatsApp, both on iPhones and Androids and only one person ever bothered to confirm the certificate for the end to end encryption. We did it because both of us are tech guys. It's definitely not at the top of the priorities of the average person.
Methinks voice will in fact win.
When the factory closes, whose car do you repair? When the factory closes, whose plumbing do you fix? When the factory closes, whose house to you build?

As all of these cities aptly demonstrate, plumbing and auto mechanic jobs aren't a panacea for disappearing factory jobs.
> There's no reason not to include the details. People who don't care can ignore them.

Based on my experience regularly communicating technical information to non-technical people, the above suggestion works out very poorly. Each technical detail is a hurdle for the listener, causing misunderstanding, frustration, feelings of inadequacy, and doubt about your competence as an advisor and communicator. Generally, they respond like most people do when confronted with something unpleasant; they tune out your message. My advice is to include the minimum possible technical details and to express them in the clearest possible non-technical language.
I've always found that anytime time a financial outcome is tied to some sort of behavior incentive, weird behaviors come out. This especially comes out in sales, where whether you like it or not, individuals will typically optimize for the best financial outcome, which is not always explicitly connected to what's best for the company.
Would be interesting to know if these "silenced" channels have monetization turned on.
There are always contracts and vesting periods.
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See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olia_Lialina (I really liked her "Turing Complete User").
Did you know that Pepsi is made from dead babies? I didn't, before YouTube [1]. It turns out you can say almost anything you want on video without it being a legal issue. I don't think regulators care about this small-time stuff.

[1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d72KsFEenz8
Brilliant! Thank you for sharing.
YouTube isn't going after 'crazy idea[s] in need of being censored.' They're going after anything they can to shut down as many small channels as they can. Their end goal is a situation akin to traditional TV networks. Far less variety, very much walled off from participation, and much more centralized. This will enable Eric Schmidt and his colleagues to exercise much more control over human culture. He explained that Google has a responsibility to manipulate human culture in his book "The New Digital Age." They are rich, and as such, better. As far as he is concerned, protecting the masses from themselves is his duty and responsibility.
I call it "fill the tank." Drink a big glass of water every time you use the restroom. You'll be hydrated, and you'll have a built-in reason to get up out of your chair once in a while.
> the bikeshare #12 learns the hard way that there is only room for three bikeshare companies in one city

Their business model isn't about getting people to use the shared bikes for a small fee. It's about getting people to pay the initial deposit for the right to easily use the bikes. There's room for more than 3 bikeshare companies doing this. By creating an oversupply from funds invested in their capital account, the company can create the illusion of having many bikes available. As soon as someone experiences even a minor problem with finding a bike from their current bikeshare company, they may sign up with and pay the deposit to another company. Although a company in theory puts the deposit into a special account and returns it to the customer on demand, in practise they don't if they go bankrupt and the deposits have already been skimmed.

I experienced this trying to sign up with Mobike as a foreigner in China. After taking a 299 rmb deposit from my bank account, their app presented a screen accepting Chinese citizen ID numbers only. I couldn't find a menu option anywhere for retrieving my deposit money. What is the deposit amount for those bikeshare companies in Seattle?
Being able to do many things at a level below what trained humans can isn't what any reasonable person would call superhuman performance. If machine translation could perform at the level of human translators at even one pair of languages (like English-Mandarin), that would be impressive. That would be the standard people apply. But they very cleary can't.
No idea - when I'm awake it's definitely a restless sensation. Ultimately I'm the one that moves my leg, but it becomes nearly impossible to resist. It's a hard to describe feeling, a growing tension that almost buzzes electricity - not painful, but .. insanely insistent regardless.

I only found out that I kick in my sleep from my wife. She says it's worse on days when I actively, while awake, complain of restless legs.

Beyond that I've got no idea. It's not something that seemed to be dangerous nor bother me enough to see a doctor due to the infrequency that it bothers me while awake. If it occurred often while I was awake though, I'd have to see a doctor. No question.
Network effects with messaging are weaker.

If you convince just one of your friends to hop onto signal, it can be useful - make it someone you message a lot and go from there. A few months ago I had just one person I used it for. Now it’s in double figures and growing.

Every hacker who gives a damn should install signal and encourage others to use it. There’s just no downside.
My eyes went to crap when I passed 40, and I had a hard time getting a prescription I was really comfortable with. I wound up using "eyejusters" adjustable-strength reading glasses. https://www.eyejusters.com (Not associated with the company, just a satisfied customer.)

There's a small knob by each lens which allows adjustment.

That way I can adjust them for reading a book up close, or adjust them for reading a whiteboard farther away, as needed.
Yep. I'm fairly concerned about an identity management company publishing this information.
I remember a discussion on the Linux Kernel Mailing list regarding memory corruption on the ia64 architecture[1] because of a strange way GCC handled bit-fields. While oftentimes packed bit-fields are a decent way of representing/serializing data for memory-constrained devices or even network applications, it's always a good reminder how they can wreak havoc for scenarios where portability is important.

1: https://lwn.net/Articles/478657/
well I guess she does. non cancerous tumor.
but it could probably have wierd side effects on her while removing it.

I just looked into her videos and some stuff is really funny.
like where she had a robot that served her a soup. it also was an ad for google home and at the end she said, google home probably won't come with a robot that will serve soup, which is probably a good thing :D
> cocaine is odorless until its fermented in a human environment

What does this even mean?
>Those that could leave, left. The very people that could quicken the recovery of the fallen Midwestern towns are the same people who left.

I'm from Toledo and left for SF without looking back. I begged people in the SBA and business community to discuss tech with me and they didn't get it and I'd be shocked if they get it now. It was literally like "How can you make money with a website?" and this was just 8 years ago. Forget about using open source as they're all about MS and Oracle and corporate BS. Friends and family from that area are still totally shocked by things like pets and alcohol in the office, working from home, wearing t-shirts/jeans/tennis shoes, standing desks etc... It's really a shit mentality and it will persist for some time.

It would take an obscene amount of money for me to move back to Toledo and almost everyone I love is there.
There are people who eat enough healthy food to get the needed nutrition, along with the junk food.

Be honest here: we are both speculating about that which we don't know, and it is hard to study.
I think we're huge technological leaps and bounds--I mean light-years--away from AGI so advanced it requires some form of computer psychology. But I do think it might eventually happen. And I don't think people are going to do a good job of preparing for it proactively. It's going to require a huge fiasco to motivate people to take that idea seriously.

So I agree that one day we may have to be careful how we treat AGI and maintain a system of ethics for the use of artificial, sensate, sapient beings. But that day is hella not today. Yet when it does come, it will probably still sneak up and surprise us. Like most black swans are wont to do.

Right now IBM is using people's confusion of AI with AGI to make sensationalist ads. But hey, most advertising around trending tech is sensationalist.