MarkMc

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by MarkMc 8y ago
This has been my experience exactly. Flutter devs quickly answering stack overflow or gitter questions. With React Native I found the little touch 'click' sound wasn't working on Android. Someone had raised a bug and provid
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by MarkMc 8y ago
A witty comment on Twitter: The real marshmallow test was to see who could resist pontificating on meaning of the original marshmallow test until a generation passed for it to be properly replicated. And you failed, all of you. https:&#x2F
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by MarkMc 8y ago
I agree with you about it being exciting, but Waymo haven't actually ordered the minivans - the press release says up to 62,000 minivans, so the actual size of the order is not clear. https://venturebeat.com/2018&#x2F
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by MarkMc 8y ago
One day man-made diamonds will be indistinguishable from natural diamonds. When that happens I wonder what will become of the 'rule' that says a man should spend 3 months salary on a wedding ring. Perhaps a Rolex watch will substi
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The Next Privacy Battle in Europe Is Over This New Law(nytimes.com)
4 points by MarkMc 8y ago|1 comments
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by MarkMc 8y ago
I think Facebook's lawyers have determined that they can use the 'legitimate interest' basis for showing targeted ads to their users [0]. This basis does not require consent from users except as part of the take-it-or-leav
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by MarkMc 8y ago
I disagree with the idea that 'latticework' has no useful meaning. Here's the way Munger uses the term: You've got to have models in your head. And you've got to array your experience both vicarious and direct on t
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by MarkMc 8y ago
Lead developer here. This is Windows/Mac desktop software which encrypts data locally using a symmetric AES/CBC cipher before storing it to the cloud. In addition we use Secure Remote Password protocol so the server never has ac
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Show HN: Online Accounting Software with End-To-End Encryption(vaultaccounts.com)
2 points by MarkMc 8y ago|1 comments
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None of those things matter if you are competing in a shrinking market.
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A little off-topic, but I find it interesting to see ad on the page showing me various Amazon books I might like to buy. It seems that the Amazon ad network is out-competing Google's AdSense for the right to place an ad in the middle
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by MarkMc 8y ago
Actually Google doesn't just say the ads will be less relevant, it also says you won't be able to block or mute some ads. Are you still happy to opt out?
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by MarkMc 8y ago
Reminds me of the 'Overheard in the Goldman Sachs Elevator' joke: #1: I asked him what his life goal is, and he said 'to make the obituary in The Economist.' #2: Great answer. https://twitter.com/GSElevat
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by MarkMc 8y ago
If true, it would be very ironic given that in 'Looking Back on the Spanish War’ Orwell wrote: ‘But what impressed me then, and has impressed me ever since, is that atrocities are believed in or disbelieved in solely on the grounds of
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by MarkMc 8y ago
I wonder how long it will be before there is a call to book a restaurant where both sides are AI assistants
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by MarkMc 8y ago
> which typically means you knew something others in the market didn't In a market with no insider trading 50% of people will beat the market. Now in reality there is some level of insider trading, but is it high enough to disrega
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by MarkMc 8y ago
> Better that than not giving away a penny until you're 75, and then handing it all off to Gates when you're eventually dead. Doesn't that depends on your rate of return? Imagine two options: (a) give away $1 million now;
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by MarkMc 8y ago
I should have said 'extra information', not 'extra field'. A username with random characters like C85Y922 is clearly more secure than an email username. Of the 6 major banks you use how many have email address as the use
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by MarkMc 8y ago
The problem is that Facebook have complete control over the user experience of opting out: To opt in just click 'Agree and Continue'. You won't ever hear from Facebook about this issue again. To opt out click the much less vi
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by MarkMc 8y ago
> Really, the solution to exposing passwords to the endpoint is to do key-derivation client-side, with a server-provided salt. That sounds a lot like Secure Remote Password protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sec
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by MarkMc 8y ago
The takeaway is that if your site handles highly sensitive data like financial or medical records and you allow users to login with just an email and a password, you are doing it wrong. Almost no bank website allows login with just email&#x
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Facebook 2018 Q1 Revenue Up 50%(cnbc.com)
1 points by MarkMc 9y ago|0 comments
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Google may have optimised ad impressions , but they are far from optimising ad clicks : 1. Last year I saw ads for cat food even though I don't have a cat and Google has access to my photo stream. 2. I searched for information on the
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by MarkMc 9y ago
GDPR isn't very effective in that regard. 98% of Facebook users will just click 'Agree and Continue' when promoted, giving Facebook the legal right to buy/sell whatever data they want.
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by MarkMc 9y ago
You don't need a metric which captures everything about the case - you just need a statistical model whose risk assessment is at least as accurate as the surgeon's assessment. This is not as difficult as it sounds - in Chapter 21
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There is probably already some adjustment for risk - anyone can see that a smoker in his 60s will have higher mortality than a non-smoker in his 30s. The problem might be that the statistician doing the risk adjustment doesn't have &
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by MarkMc 9y ago
9% seems rather high to me. No mention of how the survey was conducted. Was it a telephone survey? How were the respondents chosen? It will be interesting to compare this 9% figure with the change in users that Facebook reports at their ne
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Failed by Facebook, We’ll Return to the Scene of the Crime. We Always Do(nytimes.com)
1 points by MarkMc 9y ago|0 comments
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Doesn't GDPR say that 'informed consent' cannot be a condition of providing a business service? So as far as I can see the supermarket cannot say, "In order to receive the store rewards benefits you must agree to us sel
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by MarkMc 9y ago
It seems to me that GDPR restricts economic growth. For example, I'd be quite happy to let my local supermarket sell my personal data to Google in exchange for a 3% discount on my grocery prices. Everone would benefit: (1) The supermar

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