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- Everything We Wish We'd Known About Building Data Products http://firstround.com/review/everything-we-wish-wed-known-about-building-data-products/ 3 comments
- Scalable extraction of training data from (production) language models https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17035 14 comments
- What are "sums-and-products" data structures? http://stackoverflow.com/q/5911267/521799 15 comments programming
- Datafaker: An Alternative to Using Production Data https://dzone.com/articles/datafaker-a-solid-alternative-to-using-production 23 comments java
- Free Kindle book on Python: "Data Science in Production" https://www.amazon.com/data-science-production-building-pipelines-ebook/dp/b083h2ywp4 4 comments programming
- Apple CEO Tim Cook talks protecting customers' private data, limiting screen time: 'You are not our product' https://abcnews.go.com/technology/apple-ceo-tim-cook-talks-protecting-customers-private/story?id=62808679&cid=clicksource_4380645_null_headlines_hed 42 comments worldnews
- Bruce Schneier on Privacy in the Age of Big Data | "You are not Google’s customers. You are Google’s product they sell to their customers." http://privacy-pc.com/articles/bruce-schneier-on-privacy-in-the-age-of-big-data.html 11 comments privacy
- django-anon - anonymize your production data https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/ftkx4w/djangoanon_anonymize_your_production_data/ 4 comments django
- Ivanka's China business ties are shrouded in secrecy: More than 90% of data on the companies importing her products has VANISHED since she became a White House adviser http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4921450/ivanka-s-china-business-ties-shrouded-secrecy.html 6 comments worldnews
- Supplier does not have a data feed or csv file. What would be the quickest way to upload the 500 products in their inventory to Shopify? https://www.reddit.com/r/ecommerce/comments/6por05/supplier_does_not_have_a_data_feed_or_csv_file/ 3 comments ecommerce
- 'We accidentally deleted production data and might have to restore from backup" - GitLab.com https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/5rcknw/we_accidentally_deleted_production_data_and_might/ 135 comments sysadmin
- Bunch of 0days to remotely root an IBM Enterprise Security product (IBM Data Risk Manager) https://github.com/pedrib/poc/blob/master/advisories/ibm/ibm_drm/ibm_drm_rce.md 20 comments netsec
- [R] "It's not just memorizing the training data" they said: Scalable Extraction of Training Data from (Production) Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17035 104 comments machinelearning
- While exchanging a product on flipkart I forgot to do a factory reset. What would happen then? I already took the back up and I don't care about the data that still remains on it https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/75fxbv/while_exchanging_a_product_on_flipkart_i_forgot/ 8 comments india
- D-Link said today at CES 2012 that it will support the new 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard that provides data rates between 450Mbps to 1.3Gbps with products late in 2012. http://ces.cnet.com/8301-33372_1-57354323/802.11ac-is-the-future-of-wi-fi-d-link-says/?tag=mncol 5 comments technology
- How do online games store data that gets executed even when not online, for example, resource production? https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/acb590/how_do_online_games_store_data_that_gets_executed/ 10 comments gamedev
- Top books or guides that helped you with taking advantage of google / modern data utilities to identify trends and make a better product research? (I added a few) https://www.reddit.com/r/marketing/comments/6nwfp6/top_books_or_guides_that_helped_you_with_taking/ 3 comments marketing
- Google's Word2Vec “to enable whole new classes of products that never existed” Kaggle Chief Data Scientist, Word2Vec “is a really, really, really big deal” https://www.kaggle.com/c/word2vec-nlp-tutorial/forums/t/12349/word2vec-is-based-on-an-approach-from-lawrence-berkeley-national-lab#post8577663 7 comments programming
- A judge has blocked a University from releasing data about food safety research conducted for the maker of the beef product that critics call "pink slime," because it would cause "irreparable harm" if the public knew their techniques http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/04/10/us/ap-us-pink-slime-records.html 516 comments politics
- U.S. ethanol production dropped to 983,000 barrels a day last week, down 3.8 percent to its lowest daily average since April, according to Energy Department data. https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Weekly-Ethanol-Production-for-8-12-2022.html?aid=Ymt7gjzqpIk&soid=1126117148810 4 comments energy
- @PMOIndia: The greatest product of technology today is data. In India, we have created a robust framework of data protection, privacy and security. And, at the same time, we use data as a source of empowerment of people: PM @narendramodi https://twitter.com/PMOIndia/status/1461179163486797834?amp%3Bs=09&t=5glkOQrMXKM5FUx6l_6u2w 20 comments india
- US Senator Elizabeth Warren Seeks To Break Up Amazon Amid India Controversy | Amazon documents reviewed by Reuters showed how company's private-brands team in India secretly exploited internal data from its India unit to copy products sold by other companies, then offered them on its platform https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/us-senator-elizabeth-warren-seeks-to-break-up-amazon-amid-india-controversy-2576415 9 comments india
- 100 Days Leetcode Coding Challenge. If you're interested in data structures and algorithms, or if you're preparing for top product based companies, you must have a good knowledge of data structures and algorithms. I encourage you to challenge 100 days of LeetCode. Sure, it will help you. https://developersinspired.com/2020/02/15/100-days-leetcode-challenge/ 12 comments compsci
- Just Two Days After Product Warning Issued for Amazon Ring, Reporting Reveals Data of 3,000 Users Leaked | "This gives a potential attacker access to view cameras in somebody's home in some of these cases—that's a real serious potential invasion of privacy right there." https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/19/just-two-days-after-product-warning-issued-amazon-ring-reporting-reveals-data-3000 4 comments technology
- Pesticide companies may put profit ahead of protecting the public from potential harms. They may lobby for stricter standards on less profitable products to make room for more expensive, patented alternatives, and may also strategically provide and withhold data to produce more favorable results. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/puww-pcl100819.php 2 comments science
- Mattereum Alpha approaches: How post-industrial capitalism and a new type of big data will save the planet (plus gory technical and legal details about what the product will actually *do*) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6 6 comments ethereum
- The European Union is opening a new front in its quest to more closely regulate big tech companies, saying Wednesday it was investigating whether U.S. online giant Amazon uses data from independent retailers to gain an illegal edge when selling its own products. https://time.com/5628149/eu-investigates-amazon-data/ 3 comments worldnews
- X-Prize winner: Children are not a product - The winner of Elon Musk's global learning X-Prize award says children should not become the "product" of large data-gathering companies. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48723060 24 comments technology
- Despite all the optimistic talk by Pres. Trump about the state of the US economy, the latest data on economic activity and industrial production suggest that America is joining Europe and Japan in a sharp slowdown as we enter the second half of 2019 https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/05/26/global-slump-the-trade-and-technology-trigger/ 7 comments economy
- Report: Microsoft’s enterprise products covertly gather personal data on users - Microsoft collects and stores personal data about the behavior of individual users of its enterprise offerings on a large scale, without any public documentation — according to a new report by Privacy Company. https://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2018/11/15/report-microsofts-enterprise-products-covertly-gather-personal-data-on-users/ 154 comments technology
- A large analysis of environmental data strengthens the case for plant-based diets. Replacing meat and dairy foods from producers with above-average environmental effects with plant-based products could make a notable difference in greenhouse gas emissions, researchers say. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/plant-based-diets-greenhouse-gases-environment 36 comments science
- Mozilla to Amazon: Show us how you’re protecting kids’ data | Amazon's product page for its new Echo Dot Kids Edition doesn't mention the words "privacy" or "data." Mozilla thinks it should. https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-to-amazon-show-us-how-youre-protecting-kids-data-privacy 66 comments privacy
- Europe to planemakers: Stop buying Kobe Steel products - "The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) advised manufacturers in a statement Wednesday to suspend their use of Kobe Steel (KBSTY) products after the Japanese firm admitted to falsifying data." http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/18/news/kobe-steel-aviation-easa/index.html 3 comments worldnews
- Infants who avoided cow's milk products in their first year were nearly four times as likely to be sensitized to cow's milk compared to infants who consumed cow's milk products before 12 months of age, based on data from more than 2,100 children published in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology. https://fhs.mcmaster.ca/main/news/news_2017/study_finds_delayed_food_introduction_increases_risk_of_sensitization.html 30 comments science
- IPBill: The UK government will force companies operating in the UK to declare "products and services in advance of their launch" to ensure police can still intercept data. http://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-spy-bill-will-force-tech-firms-to-disclose-future-products-before-launch/ 31 comments technology
- Lack of paid sick leave endangers healthy workers: "The Centers for Disease Control reports lost productivity from illness costs employers $225 billion annually; and it cites data from the Harvard Business Review that the cost of presenteeism is $150 billion or higher." http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/lack-paid-sick-leave-endangers-healthy-workers 204 comments politics
- "The Data Hackers: Mining Your Information for Big Brother" by Pratap Chatterjee -- "Big Bro is watching you. Inside your mobile phone and hidden behind your web browser are little known software products marketed by contractors to the government that can follow you around anywhere." http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175757/ 9 comments technology
- Wisconsin federal court forbids forced production of decrypted data on Fifth Amendment grounds (link to decision in article) http://www.cybercrimereview.com/2013/04/wisconsin-federal-court-forbids-forced.html 15 comments law
- Using data from captured German tanks, Allied forces in World War II were able to determine the rate of production of the tanks. How? Because the captured tanks each had unique serial numbers which included the order in which they were produced. http://eepurl.com/bklox 6 comments history
- Drought Drives Decade-Long Decline in Plant Growth --- Global plant productivity that once was on the rise with warming temperatures & a lengthened growing season is now on the decline because of regional drought, according to a new study of NASA satellite data. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100820101504.htm 7 comments science