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TAM == Total Addressable Market

Also, you can keep just a hash(seed + IP address) - enough to uniquely identify user session (so you can debug possible problems) but not enough to pinpoint a specific user.

Of course in reality nothing is that simple, but it can be done, and it can be done automatically. I am sure there will be GDPR nginx plugins/configs available soon.

Probably not. They already know the outcomes and don't seem to care.

However 71% seems like a very low number... Does that mean that in 7 out of 10 cases the system guesses correctly if the patient is smoker or not? That's not really impressive IMHO. What am I missing?

> dear god, how is there so much code that does nothing, and how did it all get witten since I last had a chance to look

This, 100 times over! It is simply incredible how much code and how complex systems a junior dev (junior by knowledge, not by years of coding) can produce in a short time while you were looking the other way... :-D

Off topic: it would be nice if the title included `[pdf]`.

True. But the team as a whole would probably still achieve much more if you were mostly guiding other (less experienced) devs.

"Chrome will stop displaying ads on offending sites"?

Everyone? Or Google? I don't feel particularly happy about being used as a lab rat, so no, thank you - I don't care about the quality of Google's AI. If anything, I would purposefully mislead it if I knew how.

For us non-english speakers - "sheetrock" == drywall.

I find I can do most such works better than (average) professionals, but it takes a lot of time to learn, prepare, execute (+ sometimes re-execute) and clean. It all depends on when you are satisfied with the result.

This! In a world where very startup tries to deal with "sexy" problems like ML, AI, blockchain / distributed ledger, ... there is a lot that can be done to just ease the problems real enterprises have. This is for sure one of them - payment processor which takes CC and SEPA, with proper API and automations.

Not to mention that support gets really demanding once you hit version 13.0. Also, for Daughter 16.0+ I hear a good firewall is essential.

> , but after seeing likes tron, verge, and doge...

Just clarifying for uninitiated: doge coin is a "joke currency" (literally) that has a huge market cap anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogecoin

Bug in crypto where every private key is revealed? Not likely, just saying.

Not to be a sceptic, but how reliable are these measurements?

Note that uMatrix doesn't protect you (by default) from sending data out.

It also depends on the page you are visiting. If it's just some random post on net I actually don't care much if they do manage to post data elsewhere (the risk in that case is actually higher if I allow ajax.googleapis.com than some random non-google page), but with banking sites and credit card forms you need to be careful.

> This tool is the proof that Python has significant problems at scale, which is something the Python community has denied for a long time. They're still doing it in this thread, but the lesson looks pretty clear to me: if you plan on building large scale, don't use Python. Or PHP while we're at it (see Facebook).

Yeah, absolutely, don't do this! These are two examples of successful companies that did it and look at them now! </s>

Being able to move fast and produce a winning product on time is much more important for startups. What does it matter if you used <your_cool_scalable_thingie> for a project, when it never went past 10 users because you were concentrating on wrong side aspect of your business? PHP is fine. Python is great. Use the tools that fit your problem and you know how to use, not the latest toy.

What do you mean "even Fedora"? Linux had updates figured out decades ago. They are applied in the background (so you can keep working), usually don't need restart, and if reboot is needed, it's just that - a fast reboot without applying any updates and similar. Because they were already applied, you just boot to a new copy of kernel + modules.

Windows always sucked at this, it just took a turn for worse in Windows 7 and 10. If I tried to come up with a more annoying updates system I really couldn't. It's incredible how difficult it is for them to pull their act together on this one.

You are correct in theory, but there are so many conditions in your answer that you have really proven GP's point.

Even if you make sure that information gain about an individual from your dataset is minimal, this could easily change if combined with other data sets, as GP stated.

Not to side with him, but I think what GP was trying to say is that exploit on router firmware doesn't necessarily mean that your computer will get owned too - which is true. However owning a router makes further attacks much easier. Also, owning a router is advantageous for attacker in itself.

> Gold ownership was outlawed in the US in 1933 by FDR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

EDIT: "The limitation on gold ownership in the U.S. was repealed after President Gerald Ford signed a bill to "permit United States citizens to purchase, hold, sell, or otherwise deal with gold in the United States or abroad" with an act of Congress codified in Pub.L. 93–373,[19][20][21] which went into effect December 31, 1974."

It's not enabled. And someone with access to your computer can just install their own keylogger anyway, so why is this even a security threat?

I have no opinion about each of these projects, but his caught my eye:

> Well document set of edge cases / compromises where applicable and a high degree of observability. Well understood operational requirements, and SRE runbooks (or just a lot of Github issues that go into how to handle various scenario). An active community of people to assist, and more than 1 committer.

Are you talking about Sandglass or Kafka? Because Sandglass seems 3 months old, has 1 contributor and is featured here as "Show HN"... So it probably isn't as mature solution as Kafka is. Or am I missing something?

Wouldn't ASICs then just implement all of them and rotate execution?

This is great news, I hope they make it in the cloud! It will be interesting to see how this plays out... There are many optimizations for Intel CPUs in kernels and VM hosts, hopefully this will not be too big obstacle for AMD.

Yes, but did you hear how much power nation of Ireland is consuming? Last I heard as much as whole Bitcoin blockchain! </s>

Could be - or it could be going to ICOs. It seems the initial scams phase is (mostly) over* and they are becoming more and more like regular investments.

EDIT: * not to say you should invest in ICOs without proper research and without knowing what you will get out of it.

Not sure why you are being downvoted - very precisely (and probably accurately) conveyed what was happening. What are the chances of all these exchanges having trouble at the same time? I'd really like to see postmortem on this.

From my experience both wget and curl deserve respect. Both are fantastic tools, similar in some ways but covering much ground in other directions. I find wget ideal as a spider (checking broken linnks, making local backups of webpages and similar) while curl is much easier to use for quick inspection of web pages (including headers and https certificates).

Congratulations to author for the prize! And NZ is a great destination, hope they enjoy it. :)