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Post by tobr »

dereg wrote: post #90
tobr wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not less illegal because anyone could do it. I have copyright to my comments, and many of them can be considered personal data, especially if they are connected to my username. My rights are not waived because I publish something publicly.

Puzzling comment. Perhaps you should read the Terms of Service. User Content Transmitted Through the Site: With respect to the content or other materials you upload through the Site or share with other users or recipients (collectively, “User Content”), you represent and warrant that you own all right, title and interest in and to such User Content, including, without limitation, all copyrights and rights of publicit…

There are so many problems with that with regard to GDPR. It’s not even linked from the signup page, so I’ve never even been informed about it. I’ve never been given the option to consent or reject consent to anything. You also can’t just say it’s “irrevocable” and pretend like GDPR doesn’t apply.

Re: Hacker News “Who is Hiring?” top-level comments over time

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Post by tobr »

tobr wrote: post #81
minimaxir wrote: post #16

A reminder that all Hacker News posts and comments are available on BigQuery and can be queried for free: https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/y-combi... (the `full` table is up-to-date; ignore the others) Here's a query for a rough reproduction of what's asked in the title: WITH whoishiring_threads AS ( SELECT id FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full` WHERE `by` = "whoishiring" AND REGEXP_CONTA…

> all Hacker News posts and comments are available on BigQuery and can be queried for free Good thing there aren’t any laws that regulate copyright or privacy, so datasets like this can be published without asking users for consent.

I hope the downvotes are for the sarcasm, not the point expressed. But considering other threads about this have been flagged[1] I guess this topic is taboo.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20052076

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#94

Post by Mountain_Skies »

svara wrote: post #93

Uh, so, HN predicted the pandemic? :) Curious what's going on there.

Before anyone in the West was aware of the virus, much less taking it seriously, information was leaking out around the East. Given how much connection there is between Silicon Valley and China, it's possible some tech companies were hearing non-specific dangers from their partners in the East. Or it could be entirely coincidental. Probably will never know for sure.

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#95

Post by illwrks »

ryandrake wrote: post #18

I started and abandoned a little side project a while ago where I wanted to see which employers tended to have the exact same (or fuzzy-the-same) "Who's Hiring" post month after month. Goal would be to find some signal about which posts were actually resulting in hiring (in other words, the company didn't come back with the same posting) and which ones were just trawling for the same job month after month without act…

I know some of the recruiters at my employer, various teams have started testing and hiring multiple vacancies off of a single job ad which is kept open for longer. To an external person it's odd because the assumption is one ad = one vacancy, but company policies and processing speed makes them try odd things to be able to hire what they need.

So while your idea is nice it wouldn't work because not every company lhas the same recruitment process, frontend or backend (visible to the candidate vs workable for the recruitment teams)

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#96

Post by madeofpalk »

tobr wrote: post #91
dereg wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Puzzling comment. Perhaps you should read the Terms of Service. User Content Transmitted Through the Site: With respect to the content or other materials you upload through the Site or share with other users or recipients (collectively, “User Content”), you represent and warrant that you own all right, title and interest in and to such User Content, including, without limitation, all copyrights and rights of publicit…

There are so many problems with that with regard to GDPR. It’s not even linked from the signup page, so I’ve never even been informed about it. I’ve never been given the option to consent or reject consent to anything. You also can’t just say it’s “irrevocable” and pretend like GDPR doesn’t apply.

How is not posting it publicly consenting to it being available publically?

Re: Hacker News “Who is Hiring?” top-level comments over time

#97

Post by madeofpalk »

Mountain_Skies wrote: post #94
svara wrote: post #93

Uh, so, HN predicted the pandemic? :) Curious what's going on there.

Before anyone in the West was aware of the virus, much less taking it seriously, information was leaking out around the East. Given how much connection there is between Silicon Valley and China, it's possible some tech companies were hearing non-specific dangers from their partners in the East. Or it could be entirely coincidental. Probably will never know for sure.

There was the infamous Vox.com mini-drama of them thinking VCs/SV were overreacting in Feburary 2020 https://twitter.com/recode/status/1227927319920205824

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#98

Post by weird-eye-issue »

dijonman2 wrote: post #58
weird-eye-issue wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no way the connection just sits idle and the worker can't serve other requests for the full timeout, right? That just sounds... Wrong. And is not consistent with load testing I've done before with a nginx setup

Apache will spawn a process (at least with pfork) and the process will wait for a keep alive connection to send a new req. Everything old is new again. Gotta tune it out.

Is this true? So Apache basically launches a Slowloris attack on itself for every connection?

Re: Hacker News “Who is Hiring?” top-level comments over time

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Post by badcppdev »

tobr wrote: post #92
tobr wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> all Hacker News posts and comments are available on BigQuery and can be queried for free Good thing there aren’t any laws that regulate copyright or privacy, so datasets like this can be published without asking users for consent.

I hope the downvotes are for the sarcasm, not the point expressed. But considering other threads about this have been flagged[1] I guess this topic is taboo. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20052076

I think many people have the opinion that GDPR 'should not' apply outside the European region (or other countries that have enacted GDPR legislation).

A common sense approach would be to say that if someone in Europe chooses to submit their details to an entity based outside of Europe then that's just their choice to waive their rights to their data.

Lawyers and legislators might make arguments and talk about analogous laws and situations but that simple doesn't convince a lot of people. Hence you will get downvotes for saying something so common is illegal.

(As a side-note it's interesting that you personally choose to submit your copyrighted comments to HN given your knowledge of how you're losing effective control of your information.)

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