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by Nimi 13y ago
The author alludes to the fact there are better models for representing social graphs, but I think the pdf linked from the article is missing (or rather, only briefly mentioning) a very important model: The Albert-Barabasi model. This model
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by Nimi 13y ago
On a tangent: What happens if p2p systems start requiring proof that a new peer violated some copyright (that copyrighted work can be something explicitly created for that purpose - a guy's family pictures, anything)... I'm pretty
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by Nimi 13y ago
It's my understanding that the headset is in fact standard: (from the actual paper) "The experiments are implemented and tested using a Emotiv EPOC BCI device" (from the hyperbole article) "For $200-300, you can buy an E
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by Nimi 13y ago
Minor caveat: the proof says something along the lines of "to de-obfuscate this code, you must be able to find the prime factors of insanely huge numbers, and we assume no one knows how to do that". So it's a bit inaccurate t
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by Nimi 13y ago
I think they can use this for game DRM, if the game can contact the vendor's server, and request a confirmation that this customer account purchased the game. Nowadays, skilled reverse engineers can modify the game code and "skip
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by Nimi 13y ago
This is too complicated to answer in a forum post. The general idea is that no number appears in the code as-is, instead all numbers appear encrypted. You have to have a way to do "encrypted multiplication" - take two encrypted nu
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by Nimi 13y ago
The latter - there is mathematical proof that advances in computational power, a growing body of knowledge about de-obfuscation, etc., will not break this approach. Also, this is not "marketing material" - nobody is selling this t
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by Nimi 13y ago
This isn't that far-fetched - I wouldn't bet my life that this technology will still be undeployed in, say, 50 years. Academic research is about those discoveries too - even everyday stuff that is now taken for granted, like memor
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by Nimi 13y ago
They're talking about an obfuscation that's provably strong - i.e. there is no way to de-obfuscate the code, not even in a million years. You're talking about an obfuscation that's "good enough for the real worl
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by Nimi 13y ago
My humble understanding is this is a very theoretical result, unlikely to result in unreversable malware, or improvements in the DRM near you. Here's a brief summary (obviously, I might be missing a lot of things): 1. "They (resea
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by Nimi 13y ago
Not only it doesn't seem to "need a startup", I wonder what the founders and YC thought about the barrier to entry to the market. If there are already several competitors in this space, what would be the expected good outcome
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by Nimi 13y ago
It's been a while since I used AWS, so pardon me if the question is silly, but: Is it really cost-effective to track metrics like steal time, instead of using a large instance and having the host machine for yourself?
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The irrelevance of Microsoft(ben-evans.com)
17 points by Nimi 13y ago|9 comments
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by Nimi 13y ago
There's a lot of negativity about Ferris in this thread, and it's clear he's a very divisive figure, not only here on HN. But I wonder, what about those successful startups he advises? Surely, if Uber, Evernote, WordPress, an
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by Nimi 13y ago
If I may suggest, you should contact the author - he wrote he takes pride in having real-world users, and adapting the tool to their needs.
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by Nimi 13y ago
IIUC, there's a project aiming to solve some of the problems with code dependencies, packaging the data with the code etc: http://www.pgbovine.net/cde.html (the author hangs occasionally here on HN, but thought I'
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by Nimi 13y ago
I'm wondering: Maybe a consultancy is a possible solution?
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Monopolies and Startups(avc.com)
1 points by Nimi 13y ago|0 comments
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by Nimi 13y ago
So.... the answer to the question in the title is "by law". The article seems to answer a different question: "Why do Internet firms invest resources in implementing software which aids the NSA's surveillance?" Beca
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by Nimi 13y ago
Yep. If all analysts would target addresses with exactly 51% confidence and no higher, and their confidence is the exact statistical probability they're foreign, that would mean 49% of targets are US citizens.
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A16z-Backed LendUp Now Offers Instant Online And Mobile Loans(techcrunch.com)
1 points by Nimi 13y ago|0 comments
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by Nimi 13y ago
I only glimpsed it some years ago, but I got the impression that "anything the vendor can do, the attacker can circumvent one level deeper", especially as a criticism of TXT: http://www.blackhat.com/presentations&#
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There Is No Google Reader Replacement, Only Alternatives(techcrunch.com)
3 points by Nimi 13y ago|0 comments
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My Biased Coin: How Should We Choose Students?(mybiasedcoin.blogspot.com)
1 points by Nimi 13y ago|0 comments
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by Nimi 13y ago
Well, there's a reason, it doesn't matter if it isn't good: other curious drivers. Here in Israel, traffic reporters on the radio routinely implore the listeners not to slow down and take a look, since it causes jams. My poin
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by Nimi 13y ago
I beg to differ, and that's a criticism I also have for the OP: From my humble observations, traffic jams are caused because too much traffic (x cars/sec) flows into a bottleneck, i.e. something that can't allow x cars/s
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Digg’s Google Reader Replacement To Launch Next Week(techcrunch.com)
3 points by Nimi 13y ago|0 comments
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Can investors make money in social services?(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by Nimi 13y ago|0 comments
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by Nimi 13y ago
A worthy project, to be sure, but the networking guy in me hears "space" and immediately starts worrying about the latency. Does anyone know if there's technical data available on the standard network metrics of this solution
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Using Metadata to find Paul Revere - Kieran Healy(kieranhealy.org)
1 points by Nimi 13y ago|0 comments

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