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by deong 10y ago
That's true, but I don't think it's a problem. That's a question that just has two separate intentions, and even the world's foremost expert on Easter could give you the wrong one. If Google were as good as the best
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by deong 10y ago
It's not even limited to this kind of question for which there's no simple answer to give. Last week, my wife was joking around with our 9-year-old, leading to him trying to convince her that mermaids aren't real. Cue, "
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by deong 10y ago
> If it did, humans wouldn't be able to choose a good algorithm for specific cases, and obviously we can. This is a surprisingly commonly held fallacy in some AI circles. It's the idea that humans are mathematically perfect. W
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by deong 10y ago
Solomonoff Induction isn't really an "algorithm" in the way we normally think of algorithms, as it isn't computable. There are computable approximations, but at that point, you lose the claim of theoretically optimal.
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by deong 10y ago
It makes no difference one way or the other. The idea is that customer A doesn't want their campaign paired with ads from customer B. I don't care whether they're right or wrong in feeling that way -- they clearly do feel tha
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by deong 10y ago
If I'm your customer, I don't want to feel like you're going to devote time and resources to finding the optimal way to fuck me over if I don't cough up more money. That sentiment is completely independent of the editori
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by deong 10y ago
I don't think it would have to be free. If they specifically reached out to the NRA to initiate the process, I'd call that pretty gross, whether or not they gave them a break on pricing.
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by deong 10y ago
In this particular case, you don't have a choice. If you run an NRA ad in Everytown's campaign, Everytown is the less-loved customer.
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by deong 10y ago
What would those tools look like exactly? If you tell your 50,000 followers where I live and that what I really need is a bullet in the head, what does the tool do? Hide it from my feed? Super. When the armed militia appears on my lawn, at
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by deong 10y ago
> Twitter has a profit incentive not just to censor content, but to make as much of the content as possible paid ads. The latter implies the former. I promise, Coca-Cola is never going to advertise on Gab. You're never going to see
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by deong 10y ago
I'm guessing Twitter would happily trade balance sheets with ESPN Classic.
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by deong 10y ago
Well, where the analogy falls down a bit is that traditional UNIX filesystems have traditionally been installed and maintained by UNIX systems administrators. My point wasn't to blindly defend everything Dropbox has done. I'm sure
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by deong 10y ago
Well, as far as I'm aware, there have been no actual implications. I think it's a perfectly reasonable summary to say that Dropbox does a bunch of weird shit to enable features customers want that can't realistically be deliv
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by deong 10y ago
I think you just argued that Americans won't buy a phone.
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Yes, for that at least, I agree completely. I'm not sure how much the idea would do for border crossing, but just as a general mitigation of risk, it's extremely sensible.
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by deong 10y ago
Your device can be confiscated for much longer, of course. You could take that time difference and hopefully permanently wipe account data before the lock expired, but that has the drawback that it's terribly inconvenient for you and c
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by deong 10y ago
I think that would be difficult to achieve. If it's minimal enough to achieve the goal, it's minimal enough to look like travel mode. If the only goal is to refuse them access to your account, you can do that already. Your devices
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by deong 10y ago
Wiping your stuff does no good at all. As pointed out in the article, they know who is on the flight hours before you land. They'll know you have a Facebook profile. The difference between having a laptop already logged into Facebook a
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by deong 10y ago
That's true, but there's virtually no aspect of the C++ language or library that doesn't have a wealth of "gotcha" questions one could ask. Even parts of C++ that are "normal user" features can be remarkab
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by deong 10y ago
I think the only way to interpret this that's even remotely practical to implement is that while they have the right to ask anything of anyone, in practice, it will likely be targeted. If they're asking, they probably already know
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by deong 10y ago
It doesn't matter what you have in your password manager. If you're not a US citizen, they can demand your facebook access. If you don't have it, can't unencrypt it, or just feel like telling them to fuck off doesn'
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by deong 10y ago
I claim on my CV to be an "expert" C++ programmer, but I'm quick to point out the curve that I imagine being graded on. At least in my head, there's an implied context around someone's C++ proficiency. An expert Jav
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by deong 10y ago
Hangouts was (is?) pretty good. But it hasn't been immune to Google's inability to figure out how to make a thing people want. Initially it was IP only. Then it added SMS support. Then it added merged conversations between SMS and
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by deong 10y ago
Google desperately needs an "Executive Vice President of People Actually Using Shit". Someone who's entire job is to go to demos of products that are about to ship and cancel them until they at least work well enough to pass
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by deong 10y ago
The problem is that there's an adversary who, in practice, is not attempting to lead the jury to the correct conclusion, but lead them to a conviction. And that adversary will be equally able to explain in an understandable way why, de
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by deong 10y ago
I've actually organized a machine learning conference in Iceland (AISTATS and MLSS 2014), and I can probably shed some light on this. One, it's hideously expensive now, for almost anyone in the world. Second, it's incredibl
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by deong 10y ago
I think with security-related software in particular, the proper answer there is "tough". If you can't figure out how to call a C function, you should probably just not write critical software.
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by deong 10y ago
Oh, the book is awesome. I mean the fact that such a book had to be written is a pretty rough statement about the language.
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by deong 10y ago
The thing is that something like computing primes with template instantiations was always a little weird and came with problems around sensible build processes. The rules were...well...complicated, but not that complicated. You had ADL rule
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by deong 10y ago
The problem is that there's a certain segment of the population that views that right so broadly that it encompasses a bunch of stuff I and most others don't agree with. Property rights are weird. We all mostly agree that no one s

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