skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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BitTorrent is pretty popular.
comments on the register article are good IMO
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There's also legal precedent that IPs can be sufficient enough to identify a person.
Yes: http://jenniferlynmorone.com/
Well naturally everyone on Hacker News assumes they are a 10x dev, are gods gift to programming and will be the next Jeff Dean but that's simply not reality.
Well, I liken it to window shades. You don't own the photons bouncing off of you so if someone looks in your window and the shades aren't closed, then they aren't stealing your image.

If they try to circumvent the protections you put in place, that's different. Same thing with data.
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AFAIK the window manager/shell is javascript. You can bring up a JS console and inspect/move windows around, or extend the shell UI - sort of like you would create a browser extension.

I suspect they made that choice because... well.. javascript is everywhere and there are lots of developers that know it.
The title suggested this would be about the dish's ability to cure a hangover, but it was mostly a human interest piece about its history and a chef who's known for making it. The only paragraph to address its role as a hangover cure is buried at the bottom:

> It turns out that this belief in yakamein’s transformative effects is more than faith. In a conference talk a few years ago, food scientist Alyson E Mitchell said that, indeed, yakamein likely helps hangovers. Eggs have cysteine, an amino acid that helps scrub acetaldehyde (one of alcohol’s toxic by-products) from the body. The fatty meat can help slow down the absorption of alcohol, making yakamein an equally good choice before a night out as it is after. The salty broth replaces the sodium lost during all those alcohol-induced trips to the toilet; it also encourages you to drink more water, fighting dehydration.

No data is provided. Based on this, I would think any salty meal with eggs and fatty meat would work.
I clearly left room for some corps to escape my characterization so there's no cop-out, sorry.
(see my window shade example above)
Please if you can, give one example of a European government jailing someone for a thought crime. To save us both time and aggravation please keep the actual definition of “thought crime” in mind, and don’t conflate it with something people actually did.
Also, can we pass a law that if the person doing a screening colonoscopy finds "1 polyp" that turns the diagnostic into a far more profitable "treatment" they lose their medical license? And can we make that law retroactive?
And if you tried to sketch out what should be in that EULA, you'd probably want to know:

- What data is being collected about you

- What they're doing to keep that data reasonably secured

- Who to contact should have you detect some security issue

- How to request that the company stop using your data

.....and we've reinvented the GDPR.
This is why I am glad that a certain type of technically minded person has zero chance of having any political influence, ever.
> it is more or less an automated tool that already does what the GP is talking about.

But requires someone to be comfortable using a CLI.
Patents, yeah. Copyright and trademark are really about fraud than theft. Trade secrets are trade secrets: the violation comes from trying to circumvent security, not having the data itself. So I'd say it is very nuanced ;)
CC numbers are something that you definitely do not own. You do not own your credit cards. They are the property of the corporations who issued them to you. That's why they can cancel/alter/confiscate them without going through the courts.

Same too for credit ratings. The right to view and alter them comes from various other common law rule (ie slander) but the credit rating itself belongs to the corporation that generates it.
This is very reductive. You could use the same logic to argue that your coworkers are your enemies because the money being paid to them could be paid to you instead.
It is a guaranteed right enshrined in the EU's Constitution[0] (Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union[1]). Specifically Title II Freedoms: privacy, protection of personal data.

That's like claiming the 1st Amendment in the US is just a "magic right."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_a_Constitu...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_Fundamental_Rights_...
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> intrinsically linked to wage growth, and then by extension, inflation.

Not necessarily. While it is linked to wage growth, the increase in employment (and consumption) doesn't necessarily lead to overall inflation. It depends on the economy's capacity to absorb the extra consumption.

It might be the case that the additional consumption, particularly after a bust cycle with excess capacity, might lead to lower per-unit costs due to the utilization of fully depreciated assets and no need for additional capital investments.

This is usually captured in the NAIRU: non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment. Or the minimum level of unemployment that does not cause inflation to increase.
I want as few inbound ports open as possible. I'm assuming so does every person. So the simplest solution is to instead we have 2 outbound connections that talk to a middleman.

Are their better ways, of course, but this is simple to wrap your head around and can be accomplished by anyone with even the most basic technical understanding.
I think lack of fiber could be a factor, too. White bread has almost no fiber.
When can Congress pass a law requiring newspapers to delete information it has collected about somebody?
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That's not germane to this discussion. My position is that this project throws away defense in depth.

Is your point that because eBPF exists in a different OS that there is no security impact to using Nebulet?
Can you talk a little bit about the implementation details?

I assume that it's using WebRTC data channels to upload the file. WebRTC includes STUN / TURN to bypass firewalls so it makes it a great fit.

My guess is that the performance comes from chunking the data and sending it through multiple data channels. The other performance is to bring the receiving client close to the sender to reduce ACK latencies. I don't think that WebRTC allows to develop custom UDP protocols.
Great. You weren't tab-indenting (or space-indenting, I can't remember which one wrecked your machine) your vfstab back on Solaris 8.
According to that article this will decrease your risk by... 25%. Which is nice, but not massive on an individual level.
Iceland gets a pretty nice chunk of their power from geothermal, and the cost effectiveness of geothermal power on a volcanic island (combined with a cold air temp that makes cooling easy) makes it a remarkably cheap place to mine bitcoin, as the case happens.

Another fun thing made possible by geothermal: Some roads and sidewalks in Reykjavik are actually heated to prevent icing over.

(And before someone says it: Yes, Greenland is colder, but Iceland still gets pretty freaking cold. After walking two miles or so in an Icelandic blizzard once, I feel like I can claim some expertise on the subject.)
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See above my comment about practicality. It takes no effort for me to not violate your first amendment rights. It's a negative right, not a positive right.
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Is it really a stigma when it is perfectly rational to prefer employees who will stick around for a while?
This is basically what every McKinsey Engagement Magager does after 1 year on the job, and the firm is happy with it.
We'll see how this pans out but I'm not confident the legal system will prove logical, especially with something as vague as the GDPR.
I agree that this has to be a huge factor in the price discrepancy. Even for lavish bar mitzvahs and the like, people don't typically sweat the details the way they do for weddings.
I should have clarified, I meant at the protocol level. It's basically a state machine, and I want a "break" to reset the state machine. This would flush remaining query results, close named prepared statements, rollback any in-process transactions, and put the state back at ready-for-query. In the meantime, those with connections pools (this lib, my client-side lib, etc) have to keep this info (often except prepared statements which is the caller's responsibility to close).
Well, GDPR requires that you do those things. A clear EULA that says we don't do any of those things so if you don't like it don't use our service would still be illegal under GDPR, right?
Got married, skipped much of the shady symbolism associated with marriage. Asking permission from the father, like your wife is a piece of chattel, no. 9 month engagement to make sure the baby is yours, no. White wedding dress stating virginity, no. Engagement ring, no.
We need to update many crazy symbols, they've just become too offensive. The longer we wait the crazier they become.
These recently-discovered European "rights" are probably non-starters, but the ability to get a Google-takeout style package of your own data, and some reasonably protections regarding consent and the way your data is used would clearly Constitutional. We already force some industries to follow most of these precepts in other laws that haven't been challenged: credit agencies have to explain your credit score to you, HIPAA manages how medical data is used. The core of GDPR is really just expanding those laws to all companies.

The only sticky one is really the "right to be forgotten," which just isn't a right, and possibly has constitutional (1st amendment) problems.

IMO though, a "conservative GDPR" could get Republican backing by basically framing it as a question about property rights, which their base is all about: your data is valuable, and it's YOUR property, not Google's. Some of the other provisions could be sold as a "sunshine law" for big business.

Also resumably, given US politics, there would be plenty of exemptions for small businesses (and industries that have strong lobbying firms).

(note that I'm not a lawyer, so this may be bullshit)
It depends on which service you compare us to but you could almost think of us as the WeTransfer for large video sharing. We don't have any file size limits, we retain full folder structures and create dynamic zips designed for each target OS, there are no plugins, it's pay-as-you-go so it fits nicely in with project based businesses, custom branding sets us apart from some of the cloud sharing tools, and the interface is intentionally simple to use. We plan to integrate with video specific tools in the near future as well such as Adobe Premier, Final cut pro, etc.. which should make our positioning clearer. When your dealing with sending terabytes of data month small improvements in performance become much more important to your overall business scalability.
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interesting that hardly any eu governments respect that right
A better analogy is - what is your credit score?
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It takes no effort for you not to violate Title II, just don't ask for other people's personal information.
To quote one last bit of minutiae: "Scrum’s roles, events, artifacts, and rules are immutable and although implementing only parts of Scrum is possible, the result is not Scrum."

I agree with what you're saying, but Scrum says not to modify it. That's one of my problems with it.
I'd clarify that there is a specific delusion that any data scientist straight out of some sort of online degree program can go toe to toe with the likes of Andrej Karpathy or David Silver with the power of "teh durp lurnins'." And the predictable disappointment arising from the craptastic shovelware they create is what's finally creating the long overdue disappointment.

Further, I have repeatedly heard people who should know better, with very fancy advanced degrees, chant variants of "Deep Learning gets better with more data" and/or "Deep Learning makes feature engineering obsolete" as if they are trying to convince everyone around them as well as themselves that these two fallacious assumptions are the revealed truth handed down to mere mortals by the 4 horsemen of the field.

That said, if you put your ~10,000 hours into this, and keep up with the field, it's pretty impressive what high-dimensional classification and regression can do. Judea Pearl concurs: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/machi...

My personal (and admittedly biased) belief is that if you combine DL with GOFAI and/or simulation, you can indeed work magic. AlphaZero is strong evidence of that, no? And the author of the article in this thread is apparently attempting to do the same sort of thing for self-driving cars. I wouldn't call this part of the field irrational exuberance, I'd call it amazing.
Alright. What is the cost of a false positive in that case?

The problem AI runs into is that with too much faith in the machine, people STOP thinking and believe the machine. Where you might get a .44 detection rate on radiology data alone, that radiologist with a .39 or a doctor can consult alternate streams of information. The AI may still be helpful in reinforcing a decision to continue scrutinizing a set of problem.

AI's as we call them today are better referred to as expert systems. AI carries too much baggage to be thrown around Willy nilly. An expert system may beat out a human at interpreting large unintuitive datasets, but they aren't generally testable, and like it or not, it will remain a tough sell in any situation where lives are on the line.

I'm not saying it isn't worth researching, but AI will continue to fight an uphill battle in terms of public acceptance outside of research or analytics spaces, and overselling or being anything but straightforward about what is going on under the hood will NOT help.
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No, that wouldn't be illegal. Please can you point to the bit of GDPR which you think would make it illegal?
Why? For residential users a single IP address is connected to either a single person or a small set of individuals.

When websites use IP addresses as an authentication factor because they change so infrequently that it's when it does it's hard to argue that you can't identify users by the source of their traffic.

Plus the addresses themselves betray personal information. If you use my service I can know a great deal about you by your source addresses.

* You shop at Target, but sometimes Wal Mart when you're in a rush.

* You get coffee at the Starbucks on 5th every morning.

* You live on 2365 Chestnut Dr.

* I know where all your friends live and how often you visit them.

* You used to go to this one apartment a lot late at night, but not anymore. How are you dealing with the breakup?

* You work in the office building on Main.

* You went to a Mercedes dealership. You deserve it after all emotional stress you've been though.

* You went to a fancy restaurant yesterday, date night?

* You're coming from a couples retreat in Cali, I'm so happy for you! Getting back out there.
Maybe they should return the favor by copying the idea of having a profit.
But that 'someone' is someone who is already running a Bash script and re-running it each time an error occurs. So I don't see the problem here about using a CLI.
What you don't realize is that the lawlessness around user data hurts big corporations too. If you're a big corporation collecting significant data than you've taken on a significant liability but the nature of this liability is amorphous. How much will it cost you if your data gets hacked? What will be the impact if you share the data with a partner and the partner gets hacked? How much can you share in your api? What if you sell the data to a foreign firm and that firm turns out to be the Russian government? What happens when a client sues you and claims you caused harm to her because you have the wrong data about her?

Every corporation has to answer these questions but right now they have to do it with no real guidance from the government. This makes the data a ticking time bomb. It's not clear what can be done with it or even how much it's worth. It's not clear what best practices exist in terms of technologies and ethical guidelines.

That said nobody expects something like the GDPR too happen in America. Pretty much every other country will adopt similar laws though. If Americans are lucky they'll get some benefit from that.
I agree we might be at the point of trading anecdotes. I would suggest though that there could be the problem that a team works hard to produce good outputs in spite of Scrum, rather than because of it.

My feeling, as I have mentioned elsewhere is that this burden of proof is on Scrum and Scrum proponents to back up the claim that it facilitates better business outcomes than would otherwise have been obtained without Scrum.

The reason I think it's fair that Scrum has the burden of proof is that it is so far-reaching and overbearing in its degree of prescripting exactly the manner of working.

Scrum as a system is responsible for micromanaged enforcement of exactly one set of meetings, exactly one cadence of work, special new positions with Scrum-specific job duties, constraints on team structure, like cross-functionality and minimizing specialization, that there must be some form of aggregateable workload estimation, etc., all which are part and parcel with every Scrum implementation I've heard of (meaning that whether all these prescriptions are explicitly listed in some Scrum manifesto or not, they are absolutely a part of Scrum).

Given all this costly overhead and one-size-fits-all prescription, I think it's very fair to say, "prove it." If I know that my team works really well in our own ad hoc way that is tailored to our specializations, our current workload, our preferences, the way we jell as a team, etc., then why should I agree this other way is definitely, empirically going to be better?

I'm not saying any other team should use the custom methods my team has found to be productive. But why would we need to give them up for a system nobody has proven to be better, and many people have argued to be worse?
No you don't. Those aren't the hard parts. You use the same high quality, industrial machines to cut and polish synthetic diamonds as you do natural diamonds, and you get the same result. The only quality grades that make sense are color and perfection for natural diamonds, or maybe cutting grades for antique hand-ground diamonds that weren't done well.
The first step towards AD supported healthcare. Watch ads in the ER - accrue $ towards your bill (which is silently and automatically padded to make sure that any 'money' you make is sucked right back out). Or maybe Pfizer will buy ad - space on the hospital guest LAN allowing more dollars to flow into the hospital execs pockets - essentially allowing to profit over the patient's illness and misery.
... and magically cloud services become more affordable than they are in richer countries?
> can we make that law retroactive

No, we can't make laws retroactive, at least not in the US, and why would you want that anyway?

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Expression of thoughts can definitely be a crime. Saying that you support X Y or Z organization or ideology can definitely see you jailed.

There is also a trend, even in the US, towards keeping some prisoners behind bars for thinking certain thoughts. Sex offenders in many US states can be held long after their sentences based on mental health determinations, determinations that turn on their response to questions: their thoughts. Whereas expression of thoughts can be clearly illegal (ie hate speech) simple consumption, reading, of such thoughts can land the reader in jail too. Governments aren't yet crawling into people's heads, but they are certainly willing to criminalize the communication of illegal thought.
What if my startup does not require tricky or infelicitous shit with your personal data, but due to strict regulation I now require to hire a full time lawyer just to redact the company terms and keep up with regulations, and since my company does not yet make any revenue and I have no investors that means a lot more risk on my side, which in turns leads me to not start or not go on with that company at all? And what if this decrease in garage startups leads to less competition and more concentration of power for the big companies, which then can happily lobby and influence laws to their own interests with no one to contest them? Is that the deal that we want in exchange for mildly inconveniencing Facebook and Google?
You got it. In general you can send as much or as little as you need with MASV because it's pay-as-you-go which means you don't have to manage fixed storage and it scales up and down with your work. If you don't use it the next month it costs nothing.
My favorite is when this happens in the same meeting. "Best year evar!1!" Can we finally get a raise? "Oooooohhh, sorry."
That's fair, but a radically different statement from "when you are in autopilot they have video games and memes to play/watch on the giant screen."
Hardware protection rings are a holdover from a time when we didn't have program formats that could be statically transformed and verified to do exactly what the operator desires. They have a nonzero performance overhead even when implemented in hardware, and in an ideal design should not be required at all

Re: your followup about defensive in depth, this is a common and frankly boring fallback argument. At some point computers had much less reliable internals, and for example even the result of strlen () could vary across runs. Should we also perpetually account for the presence of unreliable registers or memory too?