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by dododo 16y ago
that's revenue, not profit.
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by dododo 16y ago
they have ~500 million users[0]. that's ~$4/user/year. [0] http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
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by dododo 16y ago
or "facebook won't let you liberate your facebook data to alternate providers". i don't understand why people tolerate facebook. they don't seem deserving of the trust people give them. first opt-in/opt-out privacy issues, now this... plus
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by dododo 16y ago
in my experience, it's common in academia for code to "float around". often it's not officially open source or distributed, but you know someone who has the code for some paper, so you can use it. there's even a few textbooks in this state
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by dododo 16y ago
why are they overfitting the data? wouldn't it be better to have expected volumes and masses for various items, and where items defer from these expectations, they get inspected fully? many customs sheets include a declaration of the packag
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by dododo 16y ago
photo sharing. video sharing. email is suboptimal for this. if you don't want to see all photos in full resolution, you still pay the response cost.
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by dododo 16y ago
the choice of some of these benchmarks is weird. they have a bunch of cpu-bound benchmarks. why exactly would you expect these to change as the kernel changed? (i would expect changing compiler to have a bigger influence.) the ones that do
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by dododo 16y ago
you can make the snowball strategy be the optimal strategy by simply picking the right cost function. optimality entirely depends upon your cost function. so pick the right one and optimise. the author clearly has one in mind---paying out t
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by dododo 16y ago
hal daume, who also wrote "yet another haskell tutorial", is an NLP researcher, and uses O'Caml, Haskell and C successfully: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~hal/software.html andrew mccallum, one of the originators of conditional random fields
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by dododo 16y ago
i wonder what happens when journalists start paying for access to recorded future and put those predictions on the internet. i suppose it will create prediction bubbles that are disjoint from reality. wikipedia cyclic-reinforcement all ov
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by dododo 16y ago
in part they seem to be claiming copyright on the java api. is that possible? some other examples come to mind: wine's implementation of the windows api, various unices/linux implementing the unix api (but maybe there's some waiver here?),
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by dododo 16y ago
there's nothing wrong with looking at some of the data first per se, provided you do not use the same data to draw conclusions. i.e., have a training and a test data set.
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by dododo 16y ago
the plural of anecdote is not data. from 2003, http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-110814573.html Once the decision to purchase is made, 78 percent of the participants said they wanted to use the product right away and therefore cho
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by dododo 16y ago
can you provide some justification for "Historically, the most secure operating systems on the market have been "open", not closed."? if you take security to be assured in some sense, TCSEC might be a reasonable standard. I do not know of a
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by dododo 16y ago
Clang C++ is now feature-complete with respect to the ISO C++ 1998 and 2003 standards. this seems like a pretty big milestone. in particular, clang now has a libc++. they also mention now supporting objective-c++. that's got to be one str
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by dododo 16y ago
I resent the ad hominem attack. I happen to have a computing science degree from when they used to actually teach Lisp in university. many universities still do teach Lisp (in AI courses, for example). this seems like an attempt to appeal
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Modern science map(crispian.net)
3 points by dododo 16y ago|0 comments
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by dododo 16y ago
i never said more dangerous nor intended it. it's not a very good rootkit by itself, certainly, as typically rootkits will monkey with the kernel to hide processes and network sockets. it's interesting because it's probably the simplest roo
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by dododo 16y ago
on the other hand, it makes for an interesting rootkit hook.
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by dododo 16y ago
it's insulting to refer to them as kids and criticism like this is only helpful if you give examples: this article does not do that, just making wide sweeping statements about "how bad" it all is. i had a quick look at github, it didn't loo
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by dododo 16y ago
for 3c1d i think a better count is four times higher: you can have aaa1, aa1a, a1aa and 1aaa, which your count of 26x26x26x10 only includes one of these options. i don't think factorial is relevant here: combinatorially, factorial represent
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by dododo 16y ago
in R, arguments are passed around lazily, akin to scala's =>. otherwise, evaluation is not lazy (as in Haskell) unless done so explicitly (as in force/delay for scheme). i think essentially no one using R professionally would accept Has
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by dododo 16y ago
amazon, for example, already sells similar information: http://aws.amazon.com/alexatopsites/#pricing
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Sustaining the Internet with hyperbolic mapping(nature.com)
1 points by dododo 16y ago|0 comments
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by dododo 16y ago
why bother? because google, for example, will use some of the annotations: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...
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by dododo 16y ago
the obvious: not every network is or can be connected to the internet, often for security reasons.
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by dododo 16y ago
does the guy with zero day want to: 1. break into your machine? 2. break into some machine? if (1) then i certainly agree that none of this really matters (i apologise if that wasn't clear from my previous comment). on the other hand, if hi
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by dododo 16y ago
it depends upon your threat model. there's probably a bug in some code on your system that's exploitable. maybe openvpn or ssh or its configuration (c.f., debian crypto bug). under this model, anything that increases the time til (inevitab
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by dododo 16y ago
what's the relevance of that comment? is your claim that dasher does not predict well? or rather, that google scribe predicts better than dasher? it would surprise me: dasher adapts to the linguistic habbits of the particular user. it lear
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by dododo 16y ago
it predicts what you're going to type next. this is really nothing new. perhaps the most interesting use of predicting input in this fashion is dasher: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/ it uses this prediction to make it efficie

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