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
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.
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.
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