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New comment by wierd0 in "Urine, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes in Pools (2015)"

wierd0 — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 10:54:50 +0000

Some are more sensitive to chlorine than others. I have astma and feel awful after having been in a pool.

New comment by wierd0 in "Timeline of the far future"

wierd0 — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 06:53:40 +0000

Scientists consulted when creating the tv show Blue Planet II seems to disagree. According to them we are in fact in the midst of an extinction.

New comment by wierd0 in "Timeline of the far future"

wierd0 — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 05:20:23 +0000

Geeks make it go around yo.

New comment by wierd0 in "Instapaper is going independent"

wierd0 — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 19:20:33 +0000

A war on GDPR sounds kind of trite though.

Ask HN: Is there utility in NLP today?

wierd0 — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 08:26:40 +0000

Given today's state-of-the-art in NLP, is it possible to semantically analyze the GDPR corpus in order to create a human-readable decision-tree that would give businesses a way of validating their compliance with said law?

Kind of like:

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Start. Do you show a "do you constent to blah blah blah"?

No. Are you tracking stuff?

Yes. Does it contain PII?

No. You're good.

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Is it possible? How would you go about producing it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17512996

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by wierd0 in "Red Flags Signaling That a Rebuild Will Fail"

wierd0 — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 08:07:41 +0000

>>it seems/should

GDPR, I'm hoping that I don't have to bother my users with a "do you consent to" popup when the only thing I want to do is to log server-side the API calls so that I can see patterns in usage and such. If I were to show such a "do you consent to" popup users might mistakenly think I'm one of those techcrunchers with hundreds of data partners that all get to see your PII. I do not want to affiliate myself with those type of actors.

Anonymously of course. Should be fine, yeah?

When should a computer fail silently?

wierd0 — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 09:51:09 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@Lager/talking-to-humans-like-talking-to-computers-77aa2c7777ad

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17477853

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by wierd0 in "Ask HN: What talks or videos do you suggest to watch on a long flight?"

wierd0 — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 20:56:01 +0000

I look at the map then take a sip of whiskey. Map, whiskey. Then I suck the last of the whiskey from the ice cubes while cracking open another bottle. Map, whiskey. Day dream a little.

Ding! Ladies and gentlemen...

New comment by wierd0 in "Sleep Scientist Warns Against Walking Through Life 'In an Underslept State'"

wierd0 — Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:21:11 +0000

Our ancestor's sleep might not have been optimal due to the fact we had other things to care about, like shelter. But that does not imply there is nothing to gain from feeling perfectly rested.

New comment by wierd0 in "“They’ll Just Make It Illegal”"

wierd0 — Sat, 23 Jun 2018 14:17:10 +0000

What would be wrong with such a world?

New comment by wierd0 in "Everyone is watching what you do online. How user tracking with cookies works"

wierd0 — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 16:14:05 +0000

> So a cookie only knows the website that referred me?

Not really. Instead, each time you return to a site that has set a cookie on your computer, that cookie is included in the request header.

That same site will also know about your last visited page, even if it's outside of their domain, because of the "referer" frpm the request header.

> So if I copy paste the website in the address bar, they dont learn anything about my last browsing habit?

If you do that, then the referer will be empty and whatever site you visit will not know what you did last.

Cookies are just one thing. Web beacons i.e. tracking pixels, and the fact that companies utilizing those to suck up data about web users sell it feely to others for the sake of targeted marketing, is the reason you see peronalized ads all over the internet whenever you've finalized an online purchase.

New comment by wierd0 in "Are real numbers really real?"

wierd0 — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:13:12 +0000

> What is the cardinality of the powerset of the naturals?

That question is better than almost every other question!

New comment by wierd0 in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

wierd0 — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 07:25:35 +0000

I used to be able to execute programs through the start menu. Can't do that anymore.

I used to go:

press start btn --> type "utor" --> press enter --> uTorrent.exe executes.

Why would they remove such a useful feature?

New comment by wierd0 in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

wierd0 — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 20:26:54 +0000

It's good that there is such an alternative as GitLab, because there is a slight but still not unsignificant risk that MS will not do the right thing. I think they will though since they are power users of their own product. I'm hoping they know this space.

New comment by wierd0 in "GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers"

wierd0 — Sat, 26 May 2018 04:47:53 +0000

All of a sudden HN has divided into EU vs US on basic human rights? This seems odd. I don't think you guys really think there is anything wrong with GDPR, not in its implementation nor in its sentiment. I really don't. The reason you are whining like crazy though is because you are in a project where the deadline/budget did not take into account this new EU law.

Hey, blame the ones who planned your project, not the EU.

New comment by wierd0 in "How We Found Great Talents for Our Remote Company Without Spending a Fortune"

wierd0 — Wed, 23 May 2018 13:51:59 +0000

> Facebook groups are super useful because [...]

I guess our visions aren't aligned then. Anyone into the sport of making money would agree that SEO is a good thing but the way you sell it to me I'd want to kill myself before I work for you guys.

Nightwatch, you produce market speak aimed towards the completely wrong tree.

New comment by wierd0 in "Stopping the RSI pain that almost destroyed my programming career (2016)"

wierd0 — Wed, 23 May 2018 12:06:30 +0000

It's probably a retorical tool but not used to trick you into doing something you didn't want to do in the first place but instead used to asure you that all the "ordinary" remedies were visited but they were unhelpful.

New comment by wierd0 in "Zuckerberg didn’t make any friends in Europe today"

wierd0 — Wed, 23 May 2018 11:13:36 +0000

So, correct me if I'm wrong, you are saying that

- opinions are never the equivalent of spreading FUD

- classifying an opinion as FUD is a slippery slope that will lead to an Orwellian dystropy

Here's an opinion:

- Linux is a terrible operating system, because it is open-source. Open-source software does not allow you to capitalize on the work you put down. Anarchy will arise when all software is open-source.

New comment by wierd0 in "Zuckerberg didn’t make any friends in Europe today"

wierd0 — Wed, 23 May 2018 10:03:33 +0000

What you are doing in this thread is the definition of spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt around the institution called "EU". I'm personally not against you doing just that. I'm just against you trying to call it something else.

Boiling down what you have actually said in this thread I'm left with "but the EU spends money on things that _I_ wouldn't have". Is that the gist of what you are trying to convey here? Or are you opposed to EU as a concept?

So, cucumber regulation seems very silly indeed. Hopefully we have gotten to the stuff that matters now.

New comment by wierd0 in "Zuckerberg didn’t make any friends in Europe today"

wierd0 — Wed, 23 May 2018 09:44:53 +0000

> Do you honestly believe that the average citizen wants highly paid bureaucrats in Brussels debating on how much power a vacuum cleaner should draw?

I certainly do. Wait, there is no equivalent discussion of power draw of vacuum cleaners in the US? Well, then the EU might be at the forefront of consumer electronics regulations and in the end, that's very good for me.