skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IP addresses are not themselves PHI, but the presence of IP addresses is considered to make PHI “individually identifiable”. IP addresses must be removed when you are de-identifing PHI.

You also, by the way, must remove any geographic information more specific than a state, such as ZIP codes. So it doesn’t say much to include IP addresses in the deidentification list.
Actually it’s my understanding that kids have their records cleared once they hit 18 in the US. I don’t know the full specifics of that or whether it applies in only certain states/locals. But I think there is logic to it that also suggests allowing people a rewrite.
Politics and retaliation aside, embassies and diplomatic immunity is nothing more than a courtesy offered by the host country.
Ha! Thank you!
it was correct by construction
stretchy compactness
continuity
we wrote numbers in the sand
watched the glass dance of entropy
against tired eyes
until our vision blurred
remaining only feeling
legs crossed in a field
blade of grass
simplification is hard work
it's clear there is no enemy
but misunderstanding
Which was actually a concerted archiving effort when the site announced it was going down on short notice.
Nobody will be nice, ever. Get it. All is sold.

Stop sharing info now. Go underground. Recently lost job application, bank loan, girl on dating site, citizenship, restaurant booking? Thank me in 10 years.

Someone asks you for date of birth. Give fake one. 'Security questions' - Where you were born - fake one - London, UK. Mobile phone, gender, address, zip codes - fake ones. Use password managers to remember fake answers.

Only government services might need real data.
> the problem space reality presents is unimaginably large

For our purposes as a heavily time-limited species, it's infinite. Across the globe we'll probably create hundreds of thousands of narrow AI programs over the coming decades and that won't touch a meaningful fraction of what could be done. AI writing AI is the only way to jump that a lot further. I'm skeptical of general AI over the next 20-30 years or so, however I do expect we'll commonly see AI writing narrow AI programs in the next 10-15 years.
One question though is what effect this has on shows with no plausible connection to contemporary life. Fantasy, historical, etc. Even in Legion a discussion involving brands would have to be pretty forced, though when they go out in public there's plenty of opportunity for logos (not sure if they used any placement or not, would be cool to see a database of this stuff).

Anyway it seems like there could be an increasing pressure against scripts that have no opportunities for brands.
No difference, apart from the credit union being local and beholden, primarily, to people in the community. Using the credit union wasn't the painful part, closing our old accounts and opening new ones was. We had too many accounts at one time, a function of having recently married, running my own business, and having a group of investment accounts.
Public monopoly is usually run by local government. Which turns local elections into a transit market :)
Have you read the article? Well-sourced information is being removed and badly-sourced information added, and that's only the beginning.
This was a great read, thank you for sharing it! If you haven't read the Daemon books by Daniel Saurez, they are in the same vein.
The problem then is that those people don't have enough income, not that the price of buses to them is too high. If it's hard to provide the service to them, the price should be correspondingly higher to discourage use of the bus except when it would be efficient to use it. Yes, even by those protected classes. If they need it so desperately badly, that means they would be willing to pay the higher price. If there's simply no money in their budget to pay for it and we as a society judge their welfare to be lower than what we would like as a result, it means they need more money, not that the pricing system needs to be messed with.
I conclude the opposite. He takes nights off, but doesn't take weekends off. This isn't employment. It's an obsession.

He managed to tick off some people who have the opposite political opinion. Those people also edit wikipedia with a personal agenda, and they are unhappy to be up against effective opposition.
I'm open minded towards these kinds of explanations.

If (mostly) true, it compliments the notions that we have a cognitive budget. Pain, chemo, aging, poverty, (bad) stress, and so forth can reduce that budget. Nutrition, exercising can increase it.
"App store"

I guess everyone gets greedy eventually.
Earnest Davis from NYU right? Next bit of news we’ll hear is “Yann Lencun starts fist fight with fellow professor”
Public company would be owned by local government. Or private company contract would make local government responsible for keeping it on a short leash. Great topic to fuck up your opponents in local elections.
Facebook just removed 584 million fake accounts. Isn't that like 1/3rd of their user base?
Didn't you read the rest of the article? They tested with arguments with different names. Further they showed that T was accessible from within the other template when it didn't have a template parameter T, making this even more bizarre.

Also, just to be completely sure, I tested it myself.

Using X: https://godbolt.org/g/B9YEgZ

Showing the template parameter leaking with neither T nor U: https://godbolt.org/g/CKe2wG
Wikipedia been disappointing for a while. I had few years run when every year I got Jimmy email, I did donated $10 cause they gave me tons of info. Just recent year or so, every single article is locked for edition and by different reason (which really doesn't matter). After spending some time you clearly see "clans" of wiki editors fighting with others, removing their content and clearly having agenda, whether it is to continue discredit some individuals, or keep others record unfairly "clean".

Here are all the locks they use as pretex to forbid you from adding your own content, aka supposedly "wikipedia is build by anyone willing to donate their time".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy#fu...
This seems to be an uninformed statement, I have to say after reading some of the already existing replies and what I know about one of the largest markets:

Germany's railway (DB - Deutsche Bahn) has been privatized and they make a profit on long-distance high-speed routes. Local routes are purchases service from a variety of smaller local train companies that sprung up, and also from DB. Ticketing can be very messy, and you have to read the small print to know where some special applies. For example, some regional ticket (one or two states) may restrict you to certain providers and routes.
Imaging troll army trying to discredit Russia that doesn't give a f$#k about Wikipedia nor USA elections. Every country has its own agenda. Current agenda is barking at Russia in unison about fake accusations like it was with Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, Turkey... you name it. (country has to have some oil or no barking)
I tried remember reading an article on HN a couple of years ago about how MSVC got initial C++ support and added more and more features over time, despite having not being designed with C++ in mind originally. The result was a combination of clever hacks after clever hacks, with the consequence being the reputation MSVC got over time (I'm not saying this is one the consequence shown in the OP)

Anyway, does anybody still have this article somewhere? I couldn't find it anymore :(
Tonedeaf in our nose: a double James Joyce centenary
How technology has redefined the job of the repo man
The purpose of wikipedia, at least in the abstract, is to present NPOV information. You don't achieve that by having people with opposite political opinions war with each other.
The most interesting cases are complex systems where a fault/even results from a combination of multiple factors. In that case, asking for a "root" cause is unproductive, and a better question to ask would be: how might the system be patched, with the least pernicious side effects. This is also why I don't always like the drive for more "accountability". As can be seen in the other HN thread on the front page about data driven medicine and the side effects on the healthcare system, you need to be very careful about which of the causes you decide to intervene on.

When you closely manage something to reduce variation, you also lose any information you might get about the system from the variation of that quantity. This point is nicely made in another post on the same blog: http://reinertsenassociates.com/the-dark-side-of-robustness/

Especially with reflexive systems (involving humans), the appropriate response might sometimes involve performing no intervention, or performing an intervention downstream, to modify its assumptions about what it receives (eg: adding error handling).
So it ensures that unequal outcomes are always the result of random chance, and never the result of a skill gap. That seems exactly backwards: you would want egalitarian policy to minimize random factors like your parents’ wealth so that factors like the student’s own skills dominate. Can anyone elaborate?
When I saw another one of these publicity articles, I basically ran to buy the book. It's really nice to have a book that will help me get the intuition and history of causal modeling rather than just giving theorems about graph structure under intervention.
NB: This isn't meant to refute your point, as it's contrasting against a totally different competitor (large, corporate monopoly, nothing like market forces) and not necessarily providing free/subsidized service, but I've always found it surprising.

At least in Northern California, municipal utilities, seem to be quite competent. Notably, in the SFBA, Santa Clara and Palo Alto have lower rates [1] and better service than what PG&E offers in all the surrounding communities. Santa Clara even built its own modern, local, efficient generating facilities.

I also heard from my telecom friends who grew up in more rural Northern California that there were towns (and surrounding rural areas) who ended up building and operating their own phone systems and that call quality (due to engineering/maintenance), features, and cost were always better than a neighboring community's service from AT&T or GTE, until, inevitably, it was privatized and sold off.

[1] Palo Alto's electric rates haven't been so great post-Enron, but still better than PG&E AFAIK.
The Wikipedia editing process is broken. Wiki-lawyering is used to shut down the collaborative editing process, even when not on political topics often by people who don't know much about the topic that they are editing.

I don't trust Wikipedia content and tend to examine the Talk pages (sometimes even the Talk page histories) on controversial articles.
First time I have seen trade skills referred to as professional - in the education / job designation sense not in the sense in dong a good job.
For the record: I just benchmarked GnuPth with NULL sigmask against ucontext for the example in the post and it's slightly (3.4/3.2s) slower.
what if data is

customer_ID -> address

I can zero in that its someone that lives in that house but not who it is.

What about

customerID -> IpAdress

I can look up ipaddress at a later point to and identify a subset of ppl with that IP.

Whould that be considered personal data.
I’m pretty much unique in spite of not having an obviously unusual name. Sufficiently mixed countries I guess.

The thing that seems vaguely scary is having a fairly unusual name that’s shared by someone notorious who is plausibly you. I knew someone who shared a name with someone else who lived in NYC and was the object of considerable local hatred. The gut I knew literally got death threats on his phone.
Inside the crypto bro fest that took over New York City
If we're talking about private American VCs, the "logic" doesn't apply. Your comment would only apply if we were talking about US government investment. The problem with your comment is that in China there isn't a public/private divide, or it's very blurry.
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Maybe this service already exists...

A web service with VPN interface that instantiates a from-scratch account on log in and then deletes it when you log off. Do all your browsing this way. If you actually want to buy something, your credit card information stays with the service as a middle-man and it makes the payment via it's own banking interface and keeps a small fee for protecting your privacy.

Many facets not contemplated in that paragraph, but maybe you get the general idea.

Is there such a service yet? 'Anonymous' access to the Internet and still have the useful bits available?
What would be the disadvantages of just using a custom build of firefox for apps that bundles non-sandboxed libraries as needed?

So for example, firefox.exe could actually be built to be my app.exe, with the generic browser UI replaced with specific app menus.

The build could have options for bundling any library, or provide a simple OS essentials abstraction library with a web sockets or local web server http interface.

It would be a single use custom UI browser “app” with the same potential power as an OS native app but easily portable.

Benefits

- I think FF is a ~50MB download so after stripping out a little generic browser functionality, simple utility apps should be about the same

- One of the biggest problems with these ideas normally is the actual multi-platform deployment can become the hardest part of a cross platform app, yet FF has a polished multi platform install/setup solution already fully figured out and maintained.
> "Without even knowing where people are from, I sense a similar trend in this discussion: Europeans are more willing (trained and socialized) to sacrifice individual preferences in favor of the 'greater good'."

I would speculate (without exact justification) that this is because Europeans are nowadays heavily indoctrinated in socialism. What you call "greater good" may not be a market-efficient solution or effective altruism.
Take it from an English / American that there are plenty of names of ours that, while reasonably rare, have only one person for hits. :)
Facebook will adapt to as many global regulatory approaches as it has to, and there will be dozens of them at a minimum that will be major markets and require compliance. The world is going to get very, very messy when it comes to complying with all the various approaches nations will implement (to speech broadly, politics, commerce, privacy, you name it). The compliance will act as a tax on its fat margins, basically.

It will become nearly impossible to form a new global social network as these rules come into being. No other entities will be capable of dealing with it, you'll have to have vast resources to do it. It won't be about paid vs ad supported approaches, that doesn't matter for that purpose: the localized compliance will go far beyond privacy (that is merely one issue on a long list of compliance requirements that will exist in the future, it'll be as complex and varied as cultures and government systems are).
One cannot disappear but one can blur. Blurring strongly enough is synonymous with disappearing (will work as long as one is not famous/public person).
This didn’t actually happen, but it makes a good story that is often repeated.

http://jeffreycarr.blogspot.com/2012/06/myth-of-cia-and-tran...

Also, this story seems to be taking on a life of its own. You have some details that were not in previous rounds. Integer overflow based on uptime was not in the original unverified story.
People are notoriously bad at playing five-whys. If you haven't reached an ideological or metaphysical problem by your third 'why' then you aren't playing well enough.
Here is a link that describes value initialization: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/value_initializati... and aggregate initialization: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/aggregate_initiali...

Either of which could apply to 'U{}'.

decltype is just returning the result type of the contained expression, which is the return type of the method 'func' called on a default or value initialized instance of type U. A lot of times people will use std::declval<U>() instead which returns a reference to U w/o needing to call a valid constructor (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/declval).

The templated using statement is creating a template type 'func_type<U>' which is similar to a typedef.
> We got to the moon with a computer less powerful than my microwave.

Can that computer show a GUI with multiple videos playing simultaneously surrounded by UI elements where multipile peripherials (mouse, touchscreen) can control their display area, all the while running two compilers (C++, Scala), and indidentally also running a Virtual Machine, etc. etc?

"Get to the moon" is an absurdly simplistic way to view complexity and it does your argument no favours.

(That's not to underplay getting to the moon. It's an amazing achievement, but if you look at the resources/humans poured into the project, it's actually not that amazing that it was possible.)
Right of erasure means you have to delete them on request.

From backups too...
The shift has come, probably not coincidentally, at the same there has been ever more evidence (genetics in particular) that people are indeed inherently different. I think most people are just afraid of considering this possibility since if you apply it in any way whatsoever it leads to either suboptimal solutions or dystopic ones. For instance if you know somebody is unlikely to be able to achieve, do you allow them into e.g. top tier schools, or not? Brave New World or Gattica? Both answers suck.
Think about this (and GDPR) for a second:

“The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits national origin discrimination. Often that means banning polices that have a disproportionate advantage for people from certain countries.”

US, you might thank Europe later :)
I can't guarantee I'm right, but AFAIK that's sort of a templated typedef, where the bound type is that of the return value of method "func" of class U. Short example:

class Foo {
int func();
};

// func_type<Foo> = int

Also, for more info, see http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/type_alias, https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/decltype.
Ask HN: Strategies to Catalyze Social Invites?
Looking for a recommendation on resources aimed improving the invite rate on a social app. I’ve scoured the more generic and obvious sources like Hooked, Influence, and related works on behavioral psychology.

Wondering if anyone can refer me to resources having more specificity wrt this problem. Even blog posts would be great. Thanks!
My wife's reasonably cheap Subaru has both adaptive cruise control and AEB. It does not have the Volvo bug. The AEB and active cruise are separate systems and the AEB has priority.
A group is made of individuals. They would normally have one account per person. Multiple accounts per person is more likely than multiple people per account.

Bending wikipedia has been going on for ages, not even counting the paid editing that you seem to presume. The famous example, where Jimmy Wales had to step in, was pedophiles putting a positive spin on their sort of activity. A much tamer example is feral cats; the article minimizes any harm (wildlife loss, contamination, etc.) due to the people obsessed with the subject matter.

Most controversial subjects on wikipedia get a positive spin. It's simply a matter of who is most obsessed with the subject matter.
Not bad; my make-fu was never that spectacular to begin with and it hasn't been aging well, this helps me a lot.

Sure thing, if you feel like giving the entire makefile the same treatment I'd be delighted to accept it.

Thanks for taking the time!
They contribute, but on their own they're not likely to add decades to lifespan or otherwise drastically reduce the risk of age-related disease and disability. An effect is clearly there, but it's just not big enough to explain the range of results seen. Much of this is likely to be a complex of gene/lifestyle interactions. It's known that some people metabolize saturated fat differently because of genetic variations, for example [1]. Likewise, there is a great deal of variation in physiological responses to exercise, for which genetic variation is a prime suspect [2]. To understand how dicey a lot of recommendations are, be sure to look not just at the average outcomes in the studies, but also the range and distribution. Abstracts and news articles often obscure a situation in which some get worse, some have no significant change, and some respond unusually well. Others spin the situation to say that everyone benefits from an intervention... as long as you include enough outcome measures that at least one of them improves for each subject and ignore all the outcomes that get worse [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apolipoprotein_E

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26767377

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25717010
MSVC has had C++ support for a long time, to be fair. GCC was probably just as bad at first, it just improved more steadily over time. Today, GCC and Clang both seem like very robust C++ compilers, and it doesn't feel like MSVC is terribly far behind (it does feels like it is behind, in my perception, just not far.)
Stanford’s housing lottery is extremely contentious. IIRC swapping is allowed.

Why not just allow unlimited swapping and let persuasion of any other student in a desired school be possible. Holding some people back when there is a win-win opportunity right there seems unnecessarily punitive to those whom discovered an opportunity... no other people lose anything they didn’t already have because it doesn’t change their situation at all... if they put in some work to persuade a parent/student to swap, so could they. It seems like cutting everyone down to the least savvy, least involved and least creative state in order to prevent additional advantages.

This is like not letting gifted kids use some advanced technology because it’s unfair to the less gifted ones... so let’s hold everyone back and punish those whom have a shot.
Wikipedia is useful for looking up technical info that there is no conflict over. It is not a good source for diving into a top-level controversial topic as those articles are long and have many places for people to stump and push for their ideas. The more specific a topic (think, a specific author associated with an ideology vs. the page for the ideology) the better. I think I've just adopted these mental heuristics automatically due to this.
It might not have the effect President Trump anticipated. In my area (south eastern MA) Amazon has switched to it's own delivery system for the "last mile" at least. This will only accelerate this direction until the "Drones" takeover.
regarding general participation in English Wikipedia -- the last three or four edits I made to Wikipedia articles I found interesting, were summarily reverted. Why try ?
I don't disagree. However, the next time you find yourself pondering the question "Why did Bob do X? That's so bizarre, and it makes no sense", you should consider what the repercussions may be if Bob were not just your awkward acquaintance but rather an autonomous computer system distributed across the globe that's assigning credit scores to people. Is there really room for 'Well it just felt right at the time' in those situations?

Humans are often quite bright, but we're also known to do the wrong thing for no discernible reason. This is to be expected when there's no fundamental formal system behind behavior, and behavior is instead driven by a black-box neural network.
PiDP-11: Recreating the PDP-11/70
That is definitely the vibe I get most of the time I read something non technical about a startup. In general a lot of startup resources (not just money but raw intelligence of really smart people) get pulled into frivolous things and when you add short term value seeking on top of that, it's not a recipe for improving humanity.
Just look at your news channels...