skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Ask the user if they consent. If they don’t, let them continue using the product and do not collect any data. Make both the "Yes, I consent" and the "No, I do not consent" buttons equally large.

2) If they do consent, consider every individual part of data you save. Do not save complete user sessions, instead, before doing anything, decide what you want to test, which information you require to do so and then save only this information. E.g. (using the example elsewhere) if you want to check how long people stay on individual pages, collect a signal on each page how long the user stayed on this page (and nothing else).

3) Anonymize the data as quickly as possible. For the example above, do not store data for each user how long they stayed on each page. Instead, have one counter per page which is incremented by the time the user stayed on the page (and the individual time subsequently immediately discarded). This way you can still figure out which pages are left early but you cannot tie this data to any individual user.

4) If you want to look at individual user sessions, pay people to use the website while you stand behind them (physically), do not collect data from random customers.
Ohh something related to my area! I work with security/data management and often I get to have access to client organizations for a variety of reasons; most of our clients are banks, pharmaceuticals and pension funds, among others.

"We take your privacy and security seriously" from some rando company doesn't even make me roll my eyes because of how desensitized I am to that whole concept. It's genuinely appalling how often banks have no clue of who has access to what data inside their organization: tons of people having accesses they shouldn't and nobody keeps track of it? Of course. Database copies stored in random hard drives sitting on tables? Why, naturally! Attestation processes? What's that? We're not talking about small entities either. These people would be years away from something not too hard like an iso27001 certification.

In short: all of our data is in an incredibly precarious situation and we're fucked forever. I don't get outraged at leaks nowadays, I just laugh at it.

edit: interestingly enough, in my experience pharmas care far more about data security than banks do (I assume that is because they have more shit to hide).
Yes, this is the kind of thing that doesn't work well with this short window of time during which something is on the front page, I wish it was possible to subscribe to discussions to follow them over a few weeks, rather than hours or 1-2 days at most.

I know this is the opposite of helping, but just in case anyone isn't aware just how extensive the whole site is: https://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
TOTP is rather vulnerable to phishing. U2F is the current gold standard, although impossible to use on iOS, sadly.
I was gaming on Linux before Steam, and it was way worse back then, but it was there, so that's what I used. Therefore I think it unreasonable to talk about "Life-Support".
Gaming on Linux was alive, it was not good, but it was not dying, if anything, things have only gotten better along the way, both with steam and outside steam.. I remember back when I wrote SDL-Ball, as an alternative to DX-Ball for my dad back then, anything you wrote would get accepted into distros.
It's not like that anymore, people have more coices now, there are pretty much more games available for linux than anyone with a job and/or family has time for, and that's great!
>Privatization should be illegal and the plea system needs reform.

IMHO, apathy about anyone who's ensnared in the legal system, "Well, if they weren't doing anything wrong...", leads to dehumanisation. Dehumanisation will - almost always - lead to many forms of abuse.

I wish it were as simple as just making privatisation illegal and reforming the plea system but I fear that it would take far more than that to see true change.

Put succinctly: The moment you no longer care about someone's life, in any shape or form, then that battle was already lost before it was even begun.
Yup! There are lots of things like this, where I don’t have the list memorized, but I remember that there is a non-trivial, non-obvious list of considerations to take into account when doing a certain thing in a non-fragile (and non-discriminatory) way.

A list of these lists might be useful.
> pay a small subscription for full access to the project diary

Recurring payments do not work well with suicide bombers and alike. You've got to be careful with this.
I wonder if you actually thought that one through.
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The only proble is: what can an end user do in some cases, besides simply not using the website/product?
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They all speak the same language and have the same culture and not at all similar to the EU.
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This is a joke: the parent commenter is talking about fingerprints on your hands, not browser fingerprinting.
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Urine is not sterile. Please stop spreading this myth. It's causing people do to nasty stuff like pee i sinks.
Does anyone know about the lifetime of the usual (non-wood) tall buildings, skyscrapers? I always wondered..will they just fall down one day..or what?
That's still tracking, though. There's no real difference between using a cookie or an IP address. In fact, a cookie may be preferable, because you can make it expire in a relatively short time, making it much harder to link your logs to the user.
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This is slightly off topic and relatively minor, but man does it represent the piss poor state of Tech writers and their articles.

"I was curious how often this go-to one liner was used. I scraped every reported notification to the California attorney general, a requirement under state law in the event of a breach or security lapse, stitched them together, and converted it into machine-readable text.

About one-third of all 285 data breach notifications had some variation of the line."

Don't bother providing a link to either you data source or your code, the ability for someone to independently verify the validity of this claim and its results isn't important, we'll just "trust" you.
Yes, I could do with a plugin to strip links to Medium articles.
Unless you have a really old OS version, you actually don't get your driver from AMD, you get it as a part of your Linux kernel: most Linux drivers aren't managed as standalone open source software projects, they are simply merged into the kernel itself.
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It depends what kind of job you want. If you want to go into quant research you’re probably just going to be writing inefficient python code. So if you want to do that, just go straight to something like Quantopian where the infrastructure is already set up.

If you want to be the guy who actually knows how to program (the guy translating the Python into C++), then I think a backtester would be a nice project. Look at the python libraries zipline and pyfolio and then try to create something yourself (ideally not in python).
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Very nice narrative about where our current society style can head us, worth reading, save, share, ...
You enter a coffee shop. Before you can do anything, the owner takes a photo of you, and grabs your hand to take your finger print. He quickly writes down the date, time and what clothes you are wearing.

He gives you a smile as he starts his speech. "Before we continue, we at Coffee City want you to know we deeply value your privacy. We need your permission to store your information, improve your coffee experience, personalize your coffee suggestions and share it with our partners. Do you consent?"

You don't fucking value my privacy. I get some serious doublespeak vibes. If you valued my privacy you'd leave me the fuck alone and stop saving information about me.

IMO GDPR doesn't go far enough. Even these popups are wasting my valuable time and invade my privacy due to the ease it is to accidentally consent to some stupid bullshit while navigating the 20 windows needed to reject all consent.

We should outlaw even asking for consent to store personal information for any user that didn't log into your site. If I do not have an account with you, I'm not your user, we don't have an extended relationship and you have no business storing information about me.
Presumably that is down to straightforward doubt as to the value of UBS's book. It is not uncommon for unpopular companies that are holding a lot of their balance sheet at "market value" (as banks do) to trade at discounts to their stated book. Take a look at LSE:LAND, a "£10bn" REIT trading at a £6bn market cap.
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Or even better, don't visit techcrunch.com.
Looks great. It's always interesting to learn more about how these things actually work.

This XKCD is always a good reminder not to get to enthusiastic:
https://xkcd.com/1570/
There’s a lot of finance papers on arxiv that describe various (academic) strategies. Most of them are pretty bad but they’re good for providing ideas for coming up with your own.
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Even ignoring the privacy issues, I'm not sure that it would lead to lower quality websites. Websites don't feel very high quality these days, especially the kinds of websites I know are probably doing the most tracking.

It might lead to lower-engagement websites, but that's a different thing. It might improve the quality of your website to stop trying to optimise my engagement with it.
In my opinion, it looks really dull and plain. It's kind of sad that they would demo such a technology with a so bad-looking tower.
I went all around there in 2005 and it was incredible. Especially the Krabi region and the nearby island (Koh Poda).

I resisted Krabi again 10 years later and was horrified. There was a McDonalds and Starbucks etc. Koh Poda was full of boats, dirty water and worst of all a literal rubbish dump of plastic further into the island. The Thais do not take care of the wonderful land they have.
There's a huge amount of survivorship bias in all such lists. Startups that succeed get analyzed a lot, those that did pretty much the same things but failed don't. To be rigorous about it, you'd have to define things like what's a startup, what constitutes success, what constitutes failure, far more carefully.
These appear to check out. Here's some additional links.

The organist hoaxer:

https://www.wthr.com/article/police-brown-county-church-orga...

The synagogue defacer:

https://heavy.com/news/2018/11/james-polite/
Jails are a system in which people operate, and how that system is designed lacks accountability and encourages guards to kill people.

The people within that system have responsibility for how they behave, yes, but as long as the system continues to exist the behaviour will as well.
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Good on you mate. Is it possible that we have had different experiences and have applied to different companies at different times? I've worked a lot in the Midwest in the medium-sized sector where there was a definite stereotype of Indians, and it was not a positive one.

Someone who is applying to Google in current_year is obviously in a different position. Not to mention other variables like a degree from Stanford etc, or being born in the US etc.

Obviously I am not saying that having an Americanized name is a requirement. I'm just saying that in the absence of other redeeming factors (I am no genius and have no patents to my name) it was a speedbump in the early selection process.
Can we visit the whole world in just 72 days; considering we have more than 190+ countries and a lot of VISA applications.
File size probably, limit for mobile view is different from desktop's
To give that dark pattern some context, Oath has recently been rebranded Verizon Media.
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A thousand words of German, including a section on its impact on the skyline, but the only image is the HoHo logo? I know I could edit it myself, but this just seems strange for any notable building.
> But answering it as if there was some intention behind it? That is not how evolution works.

This nitpick is brought up each time someone makes an interesting observation. I can only image it is because people are trying to preempt intelligent design nonsense.

You are ofc right, it had no purpose when you talk generation to generation, the gradual tiny mutation each time did indeed serve no purpose.

But when you talk about the end product, the striped zebra, it is ok to say zebras (as the product of those millions of tiny iterations) might have evolved to discourage biting flies. Of course it could have been some other reason altogether, or a mixture of reasons but there is nothing wrong with the vocabulary, imo.
> Tracking cookies provide incommensurable value to site owners for improving the quality of their web properties, which ultimately benefits users.

That can certainly be argued.

It can also be argued that websites optimizing for “engagement”, blindly, in a completely data-driven way, end up implementing tons of dark UX patterns.

And that’s certainly no benefit to the user.
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How was Ao Nang? Is it bearable? (last time I went was 5 years ago).
"apathy" is an understatement. Surveys show clearly that many people in the US, compared to other cultures, firmly believe in punitive justice.

People who broke the law are seen as "deserving" to suffer in order to restore a "just" world.

Even if the suffering is not effective as a deterrent or as part of a healing process, it's expected for a philosophical (or religious) reason.
> conspiracy designed for the solely purpose of mocking the user

slightly paraphrasing Hanlon's razor: don't attribute to a conspiracy that which is adequately explained by stupidity

> Seriously, I would do everything I can to destroy fucking phone numbers, but I have no idea how can we stop this madness.

I assume throwing away your phone isn't a solution for most people who grew up with one. Works for me though. :)
Are you saying that they're wrong? Because they're not - the maths is black and white. People have a tendency to trade in and out of securities because they feel it will give them an edge over the market, but in reality, most people struggle to outperform the market. Often they really are better off just buying and holding an index.
https://www.academic-quant-news.com
I was in Ko Samed a month or 2 ago for the first time in 15 years of visiting Thailand. It was overrun with Chinese and Russian tourists. You could easily mistake a beach for being in China the amount of them that was there.
seconded :) .. it's the best you can do for your mental health and actually "stay connected" for real!
There are plenty of great subreddits though. Just because the big ones are crap doesn't mean they all are.
She also instantly became a hero to nearly half the country and made hundreds of thousands in a gofundme. It's not all bad
if security is a concern don't use Telegram :)
can you elaborate, I don't understand what point you are making in relation to the OP.
Well, just as this case demonstrates, certain companies have exposure to other things (like paying a gargantuan fine) that would make their shareholder equity trade at a discount.
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"Works of ancient philosophy are focused more on the psyche’s health (or eudaimonia) than its illness. Nonetheless, there are hints that just as a unified soul is one that is healthy (as well as rational and virtuous), a soul lacking unity will be disturbed, or mad. Offering an account of the harmonious soul, whose rational and non-rational elements achieve a unified whole, Aristotle leaves us a picture of the warring and fractured state of an unhealthy soul, for example."
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The Thais or the masses of careless tourists?
According to the original article, Mjøsa Tower also makes use of concrete, though a % isn't given.
When tech writers do that it's one thing, but this is unfortunately also the status quo among publicly funded researchers...
IKOS has been originally designed to perform formal verification of embedded software and is heavily skewed toward numerical abstractions (intervals, octagons, interleaved widening/narrowing fixpoint iterator, etc.), which are computationally expensive. Since the goal is to verify critical pieces of software, it's OK to have an analysis take several hours to complete. Using IKOS also requires a deeper understanding of the theory Abstract Interpretation.

SPARTA has been designed with different goals in mind: speed and ease of use. The API is more streamlined and one can implement an analysis with minimal background in Abstract Interpretation. The algorithms in SPARTA have also been fine-tuned for maximum performance. SPARTA is meant to be used in compilers and optimizers, where speed of execution is critical.
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That landing page is so bad that I don't even understand which problem it is trying to solve.
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I want to congratulate the creator Sergio for building on Bitcoin. Whereas others would create an altcoin, ICO, make a ton of claims and then... nothing comes out of it.

The reason "crypto" (it's really just Bitcoin) stagnated is because nobody was building on existing solid infrastructure. Now with LN leading the way we're going to see mainstream applications being built on BTC.

Bravo Sergio for leading the way :clap:
I like the comment of Peter Sunde on it : https://twitter.com/brokep/status/1098485289528500229

Seriously, what are the advantage of Tippin compare to a service that use real word currencies ? Anonymity ?
Also plentiful access to raw materials. Lots of timber production around Brumunddal.
Great color choices tho
Goodwill is often counted as an asset (or a liability if they don’t want to pay taxes) on the company’s book. I’m not sure if UBS included it on theirs, though
> I imagine it sucks to be referred to as "he" when you're not a "he".

It does. But I wouldn't go and change someone else's speech to say something other than what they said, rather than just telling them politely, because it also sucks to have one's words twisted. In fact, to have it twisted while attached to your name (which is what happened here) is worse than being referred to by someone, in their words, in the wrong gender.
It's likely all coral reefs will be dead before the end of the century. Corals are very sensitive to rising ocean temperatures, and something like 50% of them have already been killed by "bleaching" events as the water warms.
In this very case that might be enough to delay damage a bit
So how would you propose legislating them? Or are you suggesting that there should be no limit at all on what is available or permissible, or of age? Case law and precedent generally makes it clear enough, and adapts to changing expectations without needing to be rewritten. It may adapt slower than many would like. Doesn't make the laws bad.

Every country has some limits, and standards for movie ratings and age restrictions etc.
Three clicks got me to the actual about page: https://tippin.me/howto

and you shouldn't click the "about" link at the bottom. (The about link opens a biography of the web designer or someone a user shouldn't care about initially).

First click the taco icon top right which says "US" (I thought it was a locale changer).

Then work your way down the page to the link "Want to Tip? Get started with Lightning Network" (Very small link, right at the bottom).

Then you will see that it's actually what this site is about and the first mention of Twitter.
> Even factories.

I meant "ignoring factories" in the sense of "practically you don't new to get an instance out of a factory, but ultimately it does that internally so let's just ignore this as it's just nit-picking".

> I (unreasonably?) freak out about go because i don't understand when an array backing a slice change.

That seems like the simplest one ever: a slice is a super shitty version of an ArrayList[0], so the slice is modified on assignment (direct or via the slice), and can be replaced implicitly on reallocation. Same as the elementData member of an ArrayList.

[0] because the backing buffer can trivially be shared between slices, which is not the case for ArrayList
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Ta. I was trying to figure what they were writing about.
>If you own your body => you own your blood => you can do whatever the hell you want with it
> If you own your body you own your hands => you can do whatever you want (murder) with them
> That argument doesn't stand, I'm saying you can do anything you want with them that doesn't harm anyone else
> Interesting, what's your definition of harming someone? If I control all the mechanisms of law and create a situation where every other person is effectively my slave (eg. I own all the land), then where in your libertarian philosophy do we fight that? Or do we just accept it?

I'm telling you with love in my heart, that taking a simplified libertarian view of everything is an intellectual trap and the world is way, way more complicated economically and philosophically than can be managed through libertarianism.

In the same way that gender politics gets disproportionate airtime because 1. it's very feel-good for groups of girls to feel united over and get a thrill of moral superiority from, it works socially 2. it's something for the elites/rich people to focus on that isn't redistribution or reform

Libertarianism gets press because: 1. People love having a single rule for things, because it makes them feel clever and right often without having to do any actual thinking. And it's clever on light inspection and dumb on deeper thinking 2. see gender politics 2.
This is a beta project, just like the Lightning Network itself, so losing small amounts is a possibility.

I just love the lightning network. Years of development and it still doesn't work.
I'm not trying to create controversy but:

"The reason "crypto" (it's really just Bitcoin) stagnated is because nobody was building on existing solid infrastructure."

So you know this for a FACT?

Looks like Crypto is not stagnated by any means (price might be suppressed) if you look at the news, it seems crypto as a whole is moving forward at an accelerated pace.
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I'd love to host my own Bitwarden, but it seems kinda odd that they've locked in on MSSql, even for self hosting. I really don't need yet another DMBS to maintain and secure.

If i ever find the courage to run Docker in production, i will probably give it a try.
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In the end though, Homer Simpson is still a bad safety supervisor. Just telling people to "Safen up!" is pointless and in this case is a way of distracting from an important truth ... that the problem here is cars and their drivers, not the pedestrians and cyclists. The legend of the reckless everyone else but drivers is less accepted these days and people tend to get called on it.