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Hi, HN!

I’m working on an AI that reads privacy policies and automatically detects privacy threats for you.

Last year I started becoming really concerned about digital privacy when I found out Facebook has always had an updated copy of my phone contacts, including nicknames and notes [1] – which basically means complete strangers now know the names I call my gf and the notes I would put on people to remember them (ex: John – that creepy guy from work) because I stored them like that. It was a total invasion of my privacy, it was too much.

But it was not so surprising, because later on I found out that Facebook explicitly says they’ll do this in their privacy policy. That same privacy policy no one reads.

So when I had to choose the topic to write my CS thesis, I was pretty sure I wanted to choose privacy – and as an AI enthusiast, I set myself to solve this problem by teaching machines to defend us, so we could all enjoy a safer internet.

After some research and training data, I managed to create a Recurrent Neural Network that tells apart potential privacy threats in policies (like “we will sell your data”) from neutral or privacy-friendly sentences (like “we anonymize your data even before it reaches our servers”).

I’m building this for people that value their privacy. I think you guys might appreciate it, so I’d love to hear what you think. The main problem now is that, as in any deep learning model, it needs a huge amount of data to be trained accurately. The AI is not very precise right now. You can help push privacy as a larger concept forward just by playing a simple game that (a) will let you know some of the biases you may have when you face privacy “dilemmas” while (b) it will further teach the AI what’s privacy friendly and what’s not [2].

Right now this is an academic experiment turned webapp (we’ll probably publish a paper later this year) – but in the future I’d like to build a set of tools that actively act as countermeasures to these privacy threats [3], and I’d like to monetize the project that way.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16661735
[2] https://privacyreader.useguard.com/experiment
[3] https://useguard.com
Maybe it’s hysteria, but I’ve seen 2 clear examples of UFOs/UAPs with my own eyes and I can assure anyone reading this that multiple types of craft either not of this world or ultra top secret are a part of our reality.
How much of this do you attribute to fasting vs diet change. I’ve done 16:8 fasting with no diet change and didn’t experience this kind of dramatic result.
In a way, we're already there, no? We listen to what Yelp reviewers tell us. We stop trying as hard to memorize facts as we offload our cognitive functions to Google search.

I guess the tighter coupling than what it is now is what makes the idea repulsive.

Also, as far as FOSS alternative goes, I wouldn't count on it. It's not so much the code - in time it'd be the huge data-crunching that counts, something only big corporations are able to do.
Yes, this, I do 16/8 5-6 days every week and I have been able to keep my weight under control for 2 years now, even when I'm eating carbs. I also keep sugar and simple carbs to a minimum, but I always did that. It's a glorious method.
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So, in "real life", we tend to automatically calibrate our response to somebody saying "I don't like that", depending on how often we've heard the same person say they don't like stuff. If they say it a lot, we don't give it much weight. If they rarely if ever say it, we give it more weight.

Also, if two or three other people have already told someone (in "real life") that they don't like something, we tend to regard somebody else who jumps in to say it, negatively. It seems not too hard to implement on SO that downvoting a question that is already negative, should either be disabled or else weighted less.

Lastly, in "real life" we are more tolerant of piling on, when the same person has been given modest negative feedback before, and keeps doing it. If a person has several questions with negative score, it might make sense to allow more downvotes. For example, with only one question with negative score (e.g. a newbie), it cannot go below -1. If you have two questions with negative score, it can go to -2, etc.

All seems totally doable, but everything turns out to be more complicated than it looks from the outside, so I suppose they have reasons for not doing it.
A secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cyberattack on Iran
Really Good points. Maybe show reputation to the question asker then. But not to the people voting. I would like to think that when you vote an answer it’s because you agree with the answer and not just the person who answered.
they didn't pronounce these students "innocent" or "guilty."

this resembles the situation when a police officer arrests a US citizen. they do that thousands of times a day in the US without first determining innocence or guilt. it's just the first step. and US citizens are generally required to cooperate with law enforcement officer directives. the fact that police have certain, constitutionally limited powers doesn't mean the system has abandoned "innocent until proven guilty."
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Most people new to languages with Lisp syntax find it difficult to read at first. At some point, it becomes natural to read and write it that way. More importantly, it becomes obvious how useful having a consistent and extensible syntax is to writing all sorts of things.

Eventually the C-style syntax feels “messy” because the symbols are used less consistently. At the same time, Lisps like Dylan transitioned to a more conventional syntax and can still maintain lots of the power that they got with S-expressions.
Has anyone ever done a mapping of which regular API functions map to which syscalls?
Is it even a spoiler? I read the books a few years ago, but I think it wasn't exactly treated as a secret or something that would spoil your enjoyment of the story if you know about it beforehand.
These are the same points made in criticisms of aristocratic elites: the aristocrats demand "mannerly" speech from the lower class members, getting offended over the lack of manners as a way to deflect from the otherwise legitimate complaints or observations that the lower class has to say.
Track cycling sprinters (myself included) can produce over 300 Nm of peak torque (more than many mid range cars)
The title is intriguing. You got a summary of it?
> I could write pages more of American crimes t

https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrociti...
Friends and family, sure. But why should a random stranger who has never contacted me before be able to place events in my calendar without my consent? Why is that even the default behavior?

The easy fix would just be to change the default behavior to not showing invites from unknown addresses.
I stopped attempting to post questions to stack overflow after the first couple years of attempts. It is a strictly read only site for me. Don’t waste time asking questions there.
I said you need gravity to create elements. Stars do that.
I wrote something vaguely similar (Except instead of being inspired by Markdown I was inspired by Lisp) a few months back and then wrote my website in it:

https://gitlab.com/finnoleary/wisp-new
I follow everything else but what's the health benefit of avoiding meat?
You are correct that customers that already use both Intel and AMD would likely choose AMD over Intel even with a price difference of 10% if they were deciding on price/performance ratio. However, I think it's likely that AMD is trying to win market share from customers that are currently mostly using Intel. In my humble opinion that strategy is paying off now that more big shops such as Amazon AWS have AMD options.
FWIW I've done several extended fasts (5-6 days) and I experienced hunger the entire time. Lots of people apparently do experience what you describe; but not everyone.

That said, people do who've never tried fasting seem to think that hunger will grow linearly; i.e, "If I feel this bad after 16 hours of not eating, how will I feel after 4 days?" Once my body switches to 'fasting' mode, the hunger remains, but stays at a manageable level.
My biggest pain point with that is needing to register to each one. There's many times I've seen questions I'd love to answer, but then realize I'm no longer on stack overflow and I'm on some sys admin stack exchange that I can't comment on unless I sign up, in which case I just close the tab.
I don't know; I did forget to add that I cut out all alcohol as well. Maybe doing both 16/8 fasting and eating super clean, super healthy, was synergistic?
FYI, the IETF plans to deprecate the Resource Owner Password Credentials Grant you are talking about [1].

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-security-topics
I definitely learned a lot of my attitudes about software engineering from "Joel on Software". It's weird to think that those works are "ancient" now.

I don't really have an answer to the problem, SO has some very smart people working for them who, I'm sure, think about this issue. For some reason technical discussions held by competent people on the internet seem to trend towards dumpster fire. I've also noticed this phenomenon on photography discussion groups.
That's ironic
There’s nothing wrong with eating chicken and other lean meats on a daily basis, and based on the summary of your daily eating, you could probably benefit from the complete amino acids the meat gives you.
Thanks! Video attachments and text files don't work too, if I remember correctly.
My solution is to give enormous bounties. Then the haters stfu

I have lots of points to give away though
How a secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cyberattack on Iran
This got needlessly personal, really fast.

"Slowing the growth" of cancer doesn't shrink the cancer, the cancer is still growing. Slower. It buys time. But it's not a cure. Maybe I can appreciate it, because it took my grandmother away from me. The one my parents named me after.

I am very sorry for your friends and others going through it.
Only on answers. You can downvote questions without any damage to your rep. And even then the damage is trivial.
This family of theories has been around for a while, 1491 by Charles Mann discusses them extensively, and that book is from 2005. Reliable evidence is sparse though, so this could be a major contribution.
>But that's not important; the crucial point is that all of them can be _simultaneously_ fit perfectly by adding in the _same_ amount of dark matter.

Is that true? There are claims of galaxies with no dark matter, or tons of dark matter. It seems like dark matter is a parameterized value with lots of local anisotropy across the universe.
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I'm with you. Weirdly, even though I certainly have an above average understanding of these tactics, they almost certainly still have a minor effect on me anyway.

What I was trying to do was to preempt the allegations that Booking is lying to its users. None of the allegations I'd seen while I was there actually checked out on that front. I, like most others, severely disliked the urgency messaging, but as is with ethics discussions, it was never clear cut. I did not perceive that there was a widespread culture of trying to trick users into purchasing something they didn't want. For most of my tenure, I managed the infrastructure department, not product, so was a bit removed. Experimentation infrastructure fell into my scope, though. We invested significant effort into both education and countermeasures for things like p-hacking.
No offense but

> I avoid all processed sugar (no cola or any refined sugar products), I avoid all dairy, and of course, avoid meat.

Sounds like it has a lot more to do with your results than

> So I made a total lifestyle change to a 16/8 intermittent fast (16 hours water only, 8-hour feeding window)

Also, if you were counting your calories before and after this transition, you likely missed or underestimated the calories before. I do the same 16/8 window (never been a breakfast person anyways) and have no problem maintaining my weight at about 2.5k calories a day
Quote:

The resource owner password credentials grant MUST NOT be used. This
grant type insecurely exposes the credentials of the resource owner
to the client. Even if the client is benign, this results in an
increased attack surface (credentials can leak in more places than
just the AS) and users are trained to enter their credentials in
places other than the AS.

Furthermore, adapting the resource owner password credentials grant
to two-factor authentication, authentication with cryptographic
credentials, and authentication processes that require multiple steps
can be hard or impossible (WebCrypto, WebAuthn).
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Emoji are inevitable because text - the basic communication medium on the Internet - is a very poor medium for conveying emotions. That's why first emoticons, and then emoji - the modern pictograms - happened.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they want to win back market-shares for a few years before choosing less competitive pricing.
Wow. An interesting nod to the incredibly fascinating third season of David Lynch's 'Twin Peaks', whose brilliant eighth episode and the accompanying Secret History of Twin Peaks and Final Dossier novels were astounding examples of historical fiction. I was quite impressed as to just how deep that rabbit-hole went.
Yeah, that's about 2.5 kg (5.5 lbs) per week. Might be possible/healthy if you're starting at 500 lbs, but based on the stats we know that's not the case.
You have to be diligent about what you believe regardless of the reputation of your sources. There’s a lot of sketchy pseudoscience in the non-mainstream as well as the mainstream.
> There is double standard favoring HN.

The term "double standard" means two standards are applied to two different things (or group of things) when the differences between the two things are irrelevant to the standard. "You're not allowed to play baseball because you are a girl, but your brother can because he is a boy" is a double standard because gender has no relevance to playing baseball.

Whether a site should programmatically allow the deletion of accounts/comments is surely related to how they handle the collection and pursuit of PII. HN quite obviously is not the same as Facebook in that regard, and unlike the baseball example, that behavior is relevant to the standard being applied.

That said, I could get behind a mechanism where a user can, one-time, change their username, with the effect of disabling their account forever. This would allow people who use their real name[0] as their username to change it to something pseudonymous, without allowing some of the less social behavior a more open name changing system would allow.

[0] - I'm not the 'real' Clark Griswold. Sorry. :)
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Tangentially related, but I'd love a list of links to places where you can export your personal data (eg Google Takeout).
> Failing to acknowledge this checkered legacy ultimately does a disservice to the goals he fought for

What checkered legacy? That the country he was born in was so broken he was willing to give up everything and go to a foreign land in hope of a better life?

> Can a man endowed with genius squander it through extreme political blindness

How did he squander it? He was met with racism every step of the way until he said 'fuck it' and left. I'd hardly call that squandering.

This writer has a stick up his ass. Regular people just want to lead a regular life. I'm an immigrant, living in a foreign land - my parents didn't immigrate because of political beliefs. People leave because their everyday life could be vastly improved. Everyday life has nothing to do with political beliefs, because most people are a-political, as are most things we do everyday.

This guy was a football player, actor and singer, not an intellectual who read Marx and Adam Smith.

This story is a tragedy and an embarrassment of USA's history of slavery and racism that drove a capable citizen to abandon his country, only to find a different can of worms across the globe, not 'self-delusion'.
I think Fry’s is more likely to turn into a bunch of 5 story podium-style apartments and condos.
I drive a nice looking car and get asked almost daily how fast it goes or how expensive it is or how much power it has. Bugatti is on point bringing out all the big numbers because that's what all the non-car-guys want to know! Who cares about practicality when you can be the guy that owns the car that makes all the dudes brag to their friends that they spotted a car that can go x miles per hour etc.

On the other hand, if I get asked those questions, I have to judge the person asking and do some calculus in my head to determine if I can get away with lying that it goes 200mph or costs 200k despite not even coming close to reaching those numbers. Or respond with another impressive factoid they can go home and brag about when I don't want to reveal my wealth or my lack of it. Bugatti owners don't have that problem!
You probably could have found the control board for sale online for half that cost and replaced it yourself. It's no more that a couple plugs, refrigerator repair is very over priced unless they have to tinker with the refrigerant.
"destroying other people on the track." this isnt practical.

also, tracks have turns and this thing weights like 2 tons so good luck with that.
> Do it yourself if it's so easy.

That's what I ended up doing after having a few unfortunate interactions with local handymen of various specializations. After going through the motions I understood how badly I was ripped off previously
I wouldn't say there's benefit to _avoiding_ meat, but if you're going to restrict your diet in some way, trading meat calories for veggie calories is a good move. The typical US diet is missing a LOT of fiber, not to mention the nutrients that are in plants that you won't get from meat. Meat is so dense, calorie-wise, that you can help yourself out a lot by trading meat for veggies on a selective basis. This is without having any intentions of becoming vegetarian.
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The grid's license only requires them to be within ±0.5Hz of the nominal 50Hz for at least 95% of the time. Anyone designing a system which needs to operate reliably ideally ought to design it to operate over the full 47.5-52Hz range, or at least not fail so completely it cannot be restarted. Low frequency demand disconnect only starts at 48.8 Hz, ao any system that can't handle that is effectively setting itself up to be the first thing to fail when there's a power shortfall. This is utterly inexcusable for a train given the amount of disruption caused by multiple lines being clogged by failed trains in multiple places.
There's a reasonable chance that cutting out the alcohol was responsible for a huge chunk of the changes you experienced. At best, it's an extremely confounding factor
Yeah, lol... you aren't wrong. There is a little more to that though. My research into this indicated that the benefits of autophagy start at the 16-hour mark, so you really need to make sure your fast is at least 16-hours long.

Also 'eating healthy' can mean a lot of different things to different people. My research indicated that a plant-based diet was the way to go. In a way, it is more about the elimination of things (alcohol, meat, dairy, processed carbs, processed sugar).

The first week was hard, but then after that, it got easy. Also the first week I lost 2kg so I knew I was on to something.
Apart from the environmental impacts right?
There sure is according to Dr. Thomas Seyfried and Dominic D'Agostino -

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28250801
Why do you ask, when you already know the answer?
Writers have relied on their words only to convey emotions for a very long time. It's only recently that we've been drawing faces next to our words instead picking good ones.
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Now that the GP pointed it out, I think it is a bit of a spoiler, but I can't really say why without more spoilers. That said, I agree, it probably won't affect a reading much, if at all.
I'm not sure if you're trying to say these crude emotes were good enough for expressing emotion and we didn't need emoji, but they're really not.
The end of the article is really crazy when you look at it -- Stimson growing up w/ great-grandma who was told stories by GW as a child, advising Truman about the atomic bomb. That "one life" thing really shocks you into perspective...

In less than 200 years, we went from rioting farmers at the mercy of nature to the most powerful war-faring nation on the planet with the ability to turn a war in which other superpowers struggled. We went from the bloodiest battle numbering over a thousand dead to obliterating entire cities and hundreds of thousands of people with just two bombs.

I would've thought that as we raise the standard of life in our society, we'll inevitably create technology that will be used to become more efficient at killing, but it's actually turning out to be the opposite -- as we get better at waging war, we're developing the technology that will raise our standard of life.
I love all 6 books in different ways. Heretics was my favourite though
He was borderline obese, probably going on the first "diet" of his life. This is possible, although it's a little faster than is healthy. It will take a while of maintenance to avoid yo-yoing.
But YC probably have no ties to the EU, so they can't be held accountable.
i'm wondering how bad this is
> Some suggest it was the first atomic bomb [that] sent a shock wave across the universe. It registered in distant solar systems as deep-sea earthquakes register with us. It was a clarion call. It said: DANGER! It meant the previously harmless human race had gotten ahold of matches that could immolate all of creation.

...or all of planet Earth, whichever comes first. Hint: it's not the former.
But what about this author who's never seen one who says they don't exist? Surely you'll reconsider what you saw!?!?
agree. I sometimes upvote a downvoted comment just because it looks like a reasonable comment, and I cannot see any reason why it was downvoted.
Nobody switches a big contract from one vendor to another because of a 2x ROI disparity. 5x is about the threshold where you start to feel like it’d be irresponsible to your shareholders to not switch, despite the switching costs.