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No Safe Harbor: How NSA Spying Undermined U.S. Tech and Europeans' Privacy(eff.org)
188 points by jdp23 11y ago|25 comments
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One thing I wish he'd stressed more: there's almost always a big gap between the research that's published (and any software used to produce it) and being useful in a team's real-world environments. For software enginee
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The current law is 90 days, so it's probably as simple as "the initiative's authors wanted to shorten it a little but not too much".
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23 points in 49 minutes and it's buried at #44 in the middle of the second page. Meanwhile a post with 21 points in 4 hours is at #12 on the first page Great case study of how like Hacker News' "objective" voting system
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Hi Aaron, hah, I had forgotten all about that link. Thanks Mini! And as for us leaving at the same time, funny how that works :)
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I remember that winter well. I was founder-CTO of a Silicon Valley-based startup, and we were working on a big deal with Microsoft. After they hired away the first two people we put on the project, I stepped in, and spent several weeks a
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fnord
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I understand what the statistic is meant to say and it does that well. However, the city's already limited units to 90 days, so the 211ers are already handled -- if the city (with AirBnB's cooperation) enforces the law, that is.
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Agreed it's also a useful metric, I was just highlighting the shift. Intentionally or not, it gives the impression that AirBnB supporters don't want to talk about the average nights per unit. > A big complaint from neighbors s
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> In the past year, only about 340 units in SF were rented on Airbnb more than 211 nights ... For the purposes of Prop F, statistics that seem more relevant are - how many units are rented more than 90 nights (the current law) [1] - how
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Indeed. In a situation where the people who have been elected operate in a way that benefits corporations or special interests rather than the people who have elected them, there has to be some way for the people to override the decisions.
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Yeah, he starts by talking about how the power dynamic is so key, especially in sales recruiting, and can get in the way. Good point. But as you say his proposed solutions all seem to put him, the interviewer, in more of a power position.
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How One University President Is Trying to Save Public Higher Ed(theatlantic.com)
2 points by jdp23 11y ago|0 comments
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Looking back at this Julian Sanchez article from 2013 [1] (after a Snowden leak related to the hospital conversation), he had already zeroed in on the issue. "The interception of phone and e-mail content was clearly electronic surveill
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Excellent reporting. We already knew that Jack Goldsmith, Jim Comey, and others saw John Yoo's legal analysis as flawed, which lead to the hospital room showdown -- see [1] for Comey's dramatic Senate testimony in 2007. Now it&#
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The condescending attitude of "users don't understand the consequences of their actions" -- which I've also seen from several other people raising red flags about the consequences of ad-blocking -- really bugs me a lot.
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Gender Bias Suit Will Soon Shine a Harsh Light on Microsoft(wired.com)
3 points by jdp23 11y ago|0 comments
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There was a discussion of the preprint (or more accurately a blog post summarizing the preprint) early this year at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8840261
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Great to see ongoing interest in Prolog. I did my Master's thesis in Prolog back in the "Fifth Generation" days [1] ... obviously the hype was waaaaay overstated but it still significantly influenced my thinking. I really t
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To highlight the implications of what they were saying.
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Speak for yourself. Many people who benefit from the current systemic biases would agree with you; many people who don't -- and some think society as a whole would be better if the systemic biases were reduced -- see thins differently
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No, I'm not implying a logical disconnect; I'm saying that if your goal is diversity, the notion of a "meritocracy" gets in the way. More in my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10208825
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> Privilege increases merit That definition of "merit" implies that whites have more merit than blacks (because they tend to be more privileged) and men have more merit than women. If your goal is to increase diversity, that&#
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Well said.
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> what if Caucasian [sic] men were better than everyone in this field? That's her point: given the data, claiming it's a meritocracy implies that Caucasian men are "better" than everybody in this field. That's n
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Excellent point from Freada: "My first piece of advice is to stop thinking about yourself as a meritocracy. Because if you believe you’re a meritocracy and you have numbers like everybody who has released their data, the implicit mess
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Marcy Wheeler has more in a pair of posts on Emptywheel. - one of the three judges said that the plaintiff didn't have standing because there wasn't explicit evidence that the government was collecting data from Verizon Wireless.
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There sure are a lot of them ... Does anybody have experience with wysiwyg.js? http://wysiwygjs.github.io/
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If you could pay with Bitcoin or Ethereum, it'd be definitive HN story!
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The federation is impressive!

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