skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that clear-cut. If particular metrics of 'browsing habits' directly reflect health information, then it is not legal to collect and use these metrics unless very specific conditions are met (which generally can't be met in the generic third party advertiser case). Under GDPR, health data, among with some other categories, counts as especially protected data with much more stringent restrictions than the usual GDPR restrictions.

For example, if you place a cookie recording visits to a specific results page of a mental health test (e.g. a page saying "you got 14-18 points on this test which implies foobar" or get a https://www.hotjar.com/ recording of what the user typed in that test, then that would be blatantly illegal, violating GDPR article 9.1. I'm not even talking about using that data for targeting ads, the default position (if no exceptions are met) is that you're not allowed to collect and store that data.

Collecting user browsing habits is not (in EU) "legal by default" - it may be legal, but it may be not (e.g. if sensitive data are collected as in this case) and it's the duty of data controller to ensure that all the requirements are met - if it turns out that it's too difficult for you to automatically distinguish which browsing habits you are allowed to collect and which not, then the only legal option is to assume that you're not allowed to collect them.

Having your health data not be collected by random companies is an important inalienable right (e.g. privacy as one of the core rights in EU charter of human rights); while collecting and storing browsing habits of other people is a privilege, you're allowed to do that only if you can meet all the required conditions.
> Again, who cares if it was just your shoe size?

Whoever cares, cares, and it's none of your business. Noone is suggesting that you should not be allowed to allow companies to collect your shoe size and sell that information, so you are mostly just missing the point.

There are people who do not want to allow that, and there is absolutely no reason why we should force them to allow it. Claiming that what you stole is of little value does not make your theft legal. It is simply not up to you to decide what has sufficient value to keep for other people. If you take something that is someone else's property without them transferring property rights to you first, that is theft, and it is completely irrelevant whether you think that they shouldn't value what you took.

> Did we stop living in a capitalist economy and nobody told me?

If anything, you seem to have a very confused understanding of capitalism. The one core idea of capitalism is strong individual property rights, because that is the basis for decentralized price discovery. Capitalism could not possibly work if the state simply declared that property rights for low-valued goods (based on a valuation decided by the state, presumably) a not enforceable, or if you could simply steal and use your competitor's machinery to produce goods as long as you didn't harm them (like, returned them repaired before their next production run, maybe?).

The fact that someone could make money by violating your property rights certainly never was a justification that allowed them to avoid punishment in a capitalist system.
The covariant param passing was fixed some time ago with the (now on-by-default) `strictFunctionTypes` option. Eg `function f(cb: (_: Animal) => void) { cb(new Dog()); }` can no longer be used as `function takes_cat(_: Cat) { } f(takes_cat);`

Assignment is still there though (ie you can still assign a `Cat[]` to an `Animal[]` and push a `new Dog()` into it).
Is it really a "workaround" if they're just breaking the law?

I mean, if the allegations are correct, Google didn't find any loophole, they're just hiding the fact that they're selling person identifiers.
Additionally, you can avoid using a transparent window this way, which means that the window server doesn't have to draw stuff behind the main Firefox window. You can do this with the old compositing method too, but you lose the rounded window corners and the vibrancy effect.
> They're not "selling mental-health information" as if they're violating HIPAA or something. They're just ordinary websites with ads and other tracking cookies

> This is more of the silly kind of half-truths that were used to put cookie warnings on nearly every site on the internet. Don't fall for it.

I’d suggest instead that your post is the kind of “silly half-truth” that people shouldn’t fall for.

As the article points out (and which you neglected to mention):

> And in the case of particularly sensitive data, such as health information, this consent must be explicit.

> But the PI investigation found many cookies were installed on people's devices before any consent had been given.

Contrary to your “it’s just an ordinary website, and ordinary websites use cookies, nothing to see here” narrative, these are websites that specialize in giving health advice. The knowledge that a person is seeking advice and tests for indicators re: depression is absolutely sensitive health information (insurance companies and potential employers would happily weaponize that information given half a chance), and the law therefore required explicit consent before using those cookies and forwarding those depression indicator survey answers to third-party marketing data-aggregation affiliates, which these websites did not seek.

This is a clear-cut violation.
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It's mostly harmless to spill regular drinkable-temperature coffee on yourself, so she took appropriate level of precaution (i.e. very little) for that reasonable assumption. She shouldn't be to blame even if she showered in the coffee.

To bring it back on topic: when web users are told "we care about your privacy", they should be able to take it at face value. When the company then weasels out of the headline promise on technicalities (we don't share cookies — we share JSON, haha!), then it is violating that promise.
We already do this, just with corn instead of MOFs
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I still have a Canon 5D Miii and a lot of lenses for it. (I shot with EOS cameras pre-digital as well.) I do still use the 5D for certain types of shooting--mostly sports and anything that benefits from very wide or very long lenses.

However, assuming I'm taking photos with anything besides my smartphone (which I probably use a greater and greater percentage of the time), it's going to be my Fujifilm mirrorless camera. I think if I were starting over, I'd just go with mirrorless and just forgo the specialized cases that the DSLR and its lenses are better for.
I don't think that's much more useful than saying a flu is caused by stress, is it?
I don't understand the reasons behind your comment being downvoted. Can someone shed some lights on parent's comment?
> the overwhelming public sentiment is that McDonalds was heinously negligent

Now, yes. Not 25 years ago.
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I had a PayPal charge get flagged as potential fraud yesterday. It had a push notification and the ability to flag it as legit in the Wallet app, after which I was able to re-submit the charge successfully.

I suspect only certain levels or types of potential fraud get the "call us" approach.
It can be changed when the omnibus spending bill is renewed, by congress. Not really at any time.
If true what's the hedge? Pension and investments to cash and bonds? Japanese stocks?
Not an economist, but it's obvious to anyone used to thinking in terms of systems that index funds can't work after a certain amount of the money poured into the system is managed by index funds.

What's the limit - 30% 40%, 50%, 60%? What's the current level in terms of managed capital? (Edit: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/19/passive-investing-now-contro... says 45% for US stock-based funds, half a year ago, so maybe like 48% now)

I wonder if the endgame is that index funds won't be allowed to trade on the the stock exchanges? I can't imagine how that would be enforced.

"Mr/Mrs/Ms Fund manager, you've been trading too close to the index, we'll be forced to terminate your access to the markets"?
If they continually lose money on such things then it's a good deterrent. Big IF there.
I have a sort of loose collection of books I'm 'in the middle of' or 'planning to read' at any given time. Generally, I'll pick up a book that I've started that I'm in the mood for, but if something I haven't started is more exciting, then I'll start it.

Stuff that's not engaging me stays in the pile, and anything I've started but haven't picked up in a few months migrates back to the shelf. Sometimes this is because it's a bad book & not actually worth reading, but more often, it's because the place I'm at in my life is getting in the way of enjoying it (for instance, it's too dense right now because work stress is eating up all my cycles & I need to stick to something breezy, or it engages with topics that hit too close to home right now & I'm too emotionally drained to deal with it at the moment, or I really need to read a different book first in order to make sense of it).

Ebooks work the same way for me, but I read them under different circumstances. The ebooks I have on my phone get read during breaks at work or during mandatory social events -- situations where I don't have reliable internet or access to my bookshelf but also am liable to be quite bored. The ebooks I have on my computer at home get read when I'm sitting at my computer but would rather read them than twitter or something (which is unusual, but this still happens whenever I do a periodic social media fast, which I have to do every few months for a week or two for the sake of my sanity).

I've always had a pretty good memory for things I read so long as they're nonfiction, and while I can't remember fiction narratives to save my life, I don't think that's the purpose of fiction. (I can recite the first five or six pages of Neuromancer, having read it hundreds of times in high school, but I can barely tell you a plot synopsis because my brain just doesn't work that way: narratives are an alien thing, and they wash out of my memory like rain off a duck's back.) This means that I can generally pick up a nonfiction book after not touching it for five or ten years & have no problem continuing it, but that I have to read fiction in one sitting if the plot matters at all to the enjoyment. (This basically means that I only end up finishing works of fiction that are enjoyable for their stylistic qualities -- novelists who are secretly poets or humorists, like Gibson, Stephenson, Dellio, Eco, or Wilson. I have read a lot of PKD, but it's always a struggle.)

One reason I might remember nonfiction so well is that, by habit, when I read I'm constantly summarizing & rephrasing in my head. This slows me down a lot when I start shouting at the author in my head instead! But, it means that I have at least connected what the author's saying to other things I know & integrated it into some kind of ontology.
The ultimate goal of the user is to find a suitable partner. Whether you can achieve that goal better with sophisticated selection of who you show to whom isn't obvious to me either way.

(Anecdotally, having used multiple apps, there is one that seemed to effectively "learn" my preferences and was successful in showing me women I was interested in meeting at seeming better than chance. But that's a single data point, and it's possible I'm "oddly predictable" from their model's perspective)
> It's really funny to see that yesterday, I was branded as a 'privacy nut' after the release of Android 10 as I was concerned about the privacy issues that are in Android.

What are the privacy issues in Android 10? Anything new compared to previous versions?
Huh. Reading this made me realize I also use it to procrastinate. But I also find myself way more ready to be productive afterwards and some of my best thinking is done at the gym.
What is the separation rate of non-married couples?
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And I don’t think checking your luggage for pot would be a priority under those conditions anyhow.
"Then the Go modules proxy issue..."

https://sum.golang.org/privacy

This links to the Google Privacy Policy which is an additional 27 pages.

"I think there are some folks at Google who have just read too deep into both 1984 and The Google Book..."

Is this The Google Book?

http://blog.outer-court.com/googlebook/
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> Not use data from a mechanism that's controversial with some of the user base to drive decisions? Reach out and ask people, instead of asking their machines?

That would require more time and money that could be spent elsewhere.
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> This, combined with other cookies supplied by Google, allows companies to pseudonymously identify the person in circumstances where this would not otherwise be possible.

At first glance, I would have thought this isn't a workaround at all. GDPR allows for pseudonymisation as a method of data protection. But, Recital 26 of the GDPR disallows this:

> The principles of data protection should apply to any information concerning an identified or identifiable natural person. Personal data which have undergone pseudonymisation, which could be attributed to a natural person by the use of additional information should be considered to be information on an identifiable natural person. [...]

That said, I don't think this is cut and dried, because Google themselves isn't providing the linkage to an identifiable natural person. The person that can make that linkage necessarily already has the identifying information. Get ready for a major legal battle.
Are you talking about immediately sharing things, or persisting knowledge? In the former case, are you looking for something different than, I don't know, Slack etc.?

In the latter case, documentation is critical. The only way to manage this, regardless of what app or platform you use, is to create a culture of documentation. This means that EVERYONE is habituated to documenting what they're doing and taking responsibility for what gets documented.

I use Confluence at my day job but it drives me up the $(*&ing wall sometimes with dumb little things (the search function, arguably the single most important feature, STILL doesn't search naturally across titles and contents. You have to spell out a title exactly correctly in order to find it. WTF???).

I have used Nuclino for personal work and liked it a lot, though I don't know if it does enterprise-level stuff yet, like advanced team and permissions management. It might, haven't used it in a bit.
There are two main reasons for this:

1. 95% of the people use their cameras for output to the web (i.e., instagram, pintrest, etc.) And email links to them, or actually email the picture itself when they share them.

In this case, you don't really need a high end camera such as a DSLR or a Mirrorless. That doesn't mean you can't benefit, its just that the reason you are taking the picture isn't worth to learn how to use a camera properly. For these people their crappy cell phone lens based phone is good enough.

2. Has any body looked at the used DSLRs available? Go over to KEH and take a look. You can get a Nikon D300 in excellent condition for less than $300 with a 180 day warranty!!! Want a pro body? You can get a Nikon D3s in excellent condition for $1100 with a 180 day warranty.

That D300 just 4 years ago was $1900 and that D3s was going for well over $6000 around the same time. Why on earth would anyone go and buy a new camera these days?

The camera companies did this to themselves by releasing a new camera every 12-16 months for the past decade.

I predict that those companies that can survive this downturn will have huge success down the road. People will realise how much a real camera offers in quality, capability and options. And then the market will return.
The amount of air that can pass through a microwave size device is miniscule compared to the amount of air over a desert.
That example you gave is from the first Beginner puzzle, correct? There are two spaces to fill in. So one of those three sequences is the answer to that column (or row if you've rotated the puzzle). There's not an error.

If you find the interface confusing, start with the tutorial levels which begin with a single character solution and progress to larger solutions. Each cell is clearly meant to be one character in a string, with the row/column being the entire string.
> If you opt-out of metrics, you don't get to participate in decisions.

Would you agree to a Democracy where the government put sensors in your house, then told you which candidate your vote would be counted towards from your behaviour?

And if you opted out of that, you don't get to participate at all?
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Cool stuff. How does it compare to Prisma?
"It's cheaper this way" is not a valid justification for doing the wrong thing over the right thing.
Copying from my other post: "dumb little things (the search function, arguably the single most important feature, STILL doesn't search naturally across titles and contents. You have to spell out a title exactly correctly in order to find it. WTF???)"

Also, you can't create custom watch lists for individual documents. It's totally absurd. Watchers have to watch THE ENTIRE SPACE, meaning they get emails for EVERY DOCUMENT that gets changed, or NONE AT ALL. WTF??!?!?
Connecting personal accounts (Gmail, Chrome browser profiles) on a work computer is something that you should only do with careful thought.
> nor is the temperature at all outside of normal industry standards

According to the facts presented at the trial, it is, at least for the fast food industry. All other fast food chains were found to serve coffee at about 140 F.
Minecraft obfuscation maps are now published with all future releases
I doubt it's the ultimate goal, but the baseline it provides is probably better than the one without such an option. I rarely feel like going out by myself to do something, so if it wasn't for dating apps I wouldn't think my pool of available women was very large, and in turn I might be contently or unhappily married today.

Instead, I have what appears to be never ending choices which makes it very unlikely I'll ever feel confident committing because 'the next one could be better', leaving me contently or unhappily single.

So, it seems like a wash now that I frame it in my own life...
Hong Kong's Carrie Lam on Withdrawing Extradition Bill
Can someone who understands investing well explain what he’s saying in terms that someone who isn’t knowledgeable about this could understand? I kind of think he’s saying that everyone is just shoveling their money into index funds without thinking about it and this leads to incorrectly valued stock that will correct in the form of a crash at some point. Is that sort of the gist of it?
Well, you can go tell the Irish that their constitution is wrong, if you like.

"It is the firm will of the Irish Nation, in harmony and friendship, to unite all the people who share the territory of the island of Ireland, in all the diversity of their identities and traditions, recognising that a united Ireland shall be brought about only by peaceful means with the consent of a majority of the people, democratically expressed, in both jurisdictions in the island."

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/cons/en/html
YouTube will pay $170M to settle claims it violated child privacy laws
The order goes
1)Happy marriage
2)Being Single
3)Shitty marriage
If you want to exclusively watch children's content then sure, you could call that a "viable" strategy to avoid tracking.
Wow! Never knew this was a thing. Would that be enough to power heavier load appliances (toaster ovens, window AC, etc)?
Yes, every mouse movement, unsubmitted form input, scroll, highlight, and so on. This stuff can also be used to fingerprint you. LiveSession, Inspectlet, UXCam are competitors. uBlock Origin on Firefox can be configured to block these.
> The Internet extreme position machine. Everything has to be clear cut

aka compression machine. optimized to trigger brains' reward circuitry for accomplishment by 'tidying up' unmanageable landscapes of disjointed data into easily stored and recalled bimodal silhouettes of same.
Elephant in the room is the $2m in the bank. This alone affords you the perspective to value family life over all else. If you were struggling to make rent and feed your kids you might find that children are a burden and stress. I don't think this would necessarily make you love them any less, but some of my friends have warned me off of deciding to have children because of the financial strain that comes part-and-parcel for the average person with kids.
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