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by antpls 7y ago
Crowdsourced patent troll fight, That needs to happen more often!
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Google does something similar: https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs
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To me, all involved people in Gitlab are grown-up adults and they know everything is public. If someone wants to publicly bring up "touchy personnel issues", then they know what they are doing.
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This is so cool. What I am worried about using fingerprint is that they are either stored on a laptop or a smartphone. You have to trust a lot of hardware, the whole software stack made by many third parties to protect that data. With this
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> you are not maintaining, but still using things like postgresql,nginx,redis, rabbitmq I don't maintain them because they are written in either C or C++, which has many more practitioners, guidelines and tools to trust. On the othe
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> Just enough of a flood of short 1-3 sentence pro/con comments on a forum can drastically affect the perceived public opinion of an issue. Even more than public opinion, it can affect the result of sentiment analysis algorithms abo
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If Google bans Defense and Oil companies from its cloud, I would consider buying some GOOGL stocks, actually. Or use Google Cloud.
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Having a bit of experience with OCaml, I hoped to see what production-ready Haskell code looked like with this library. I tried to read some files of the project and... IMHO "production-ready" Haskell code is still not easily read
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I'm in my late 20s as well and the replies so far are disgusting me. I think we should expect that the previous generation won't help us to build the world we would like to see, and we should use all the tools and knowledge we hav
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What I find more worrying are all the anecdotes of people trying to blacklist Google and then not being able to browse the Web because of Captcha, login, and other weird tracking.
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I didn't read the full paper yet, but a quick ctrl+f shows no mention of Activation Atlas for vision neural network, a collaboration between Google AI and OpenAI : https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/exploring-n
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From what I read, NSO didn't only hack Whatsapp, they also used vulnerabilities in the Android OS in the media decoder. Given all the CVEs patched on each Android security patch, that wouldn't be surprising. If that's the cas
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Will pixelfed ever support "stories" ? I kind of became addicted to stories on Instagram, although I admit the old gallery-only is less stressful
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I would be interested to have some academic pointers or actual benchmarks about that claim
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It looks like an ecological disaster by reading the title. I couldn't read the article because it asked me to "login".
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It looks like cryptography would benefit a dedicated programming language, aimed at verification and with other constraints such as "constant time" backed in the syntax of the language. At least, maybe it would ease code review an
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There never is a guarantee of result in R&D, and a few millions isnt much compared to the trillion budget of EU. However the goal of this project, with ethical concerns, is worrying
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> IBorderCtrl’s lie detection system was developed in England by researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University, who say that the technology can pick up on “micro gestures” a person makes while answering questions on their computer, a
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Maybe there are more values in investing into SHA256 hardware other than Bitcoin. That's 80704290.84 petaflops dedicated to break the SHA256 algorithm (finding a duplicate). Finding such duplicate could advance knowledge, mathematics,
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Related : Recent Paper (2019) from Google introducing TensorNetworks and the graphical notation : https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01330 Blog post from Google : https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/06/int
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For the non-initiated among us, what does it mean to "use a team of pacemakers"? Why are those pacemakers that important?
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No one said in the twitter post that correlation is causality. There is a correlation and this is an attempt to explain the correlation. Even if the explanation of the twitter post is far-fetched, the approach of understanding and finding p
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That post yesterday : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21147865 shows a side channel attack on smartcards. In the links we can see the FIPS140-compliant affected hardwares. Maybe it contributes to show that FIPS140-02 i
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Once in a while, the Champs-Elysées in Paris are closed to cars on Sunday. When there were the yellow-vest protests, a large part of central Paris was closed to cars on Saturday too. It was pleasant to walk in the streets that time, the cit
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The point of the cryptocurrency was to decentralize Libra amongst several actors, such as Visa, Master Card, Paypal, etc If done, Libra would have been the common interest of all those actors. That was the goal of the project.
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If you want your code to compile with the next versions of the compiler, you wouldn't wait the latest official stable release of the compiler to start looking at your future work. You would have a step in your CI that periodically chec
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> In Taiwan if you drop trash where you shouldn't there's a chance that a camera will capture your movement, and they will try to find out who that person is. Wouldn't a permanent surveillance reveal that humans are biolog
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So, what's the difference between WhatsApp, FB Messenger and Threads? They all allow to message a selected list of contact, send videos and have a status, all owned by FB. What's the strategy here?
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The feature being a worldwide premier, with no past experience, I honestly expected that Tesla had added more sounds and visual warnings when the Summon feature is running, such as flashing the car's headlights and emitting regular &qu
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Wouldn't someone from inside the Facebook/Whatsapp team denounce it if that was the case? Like a whistle blower

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