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by dpwm 9y ago
A few years ago I found myself reading pretty much every paper on methods that could give a better looking solution to "deblurring" an image than the more established methods. This is really a field which has overlap with many dif
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by dpwm 9y ago
Well, I never said I did believe it was private. When I said better, I should really have said better behaved in respect to deletions. Because of the twitter stream APIs it's not. But there does seem to be a strange presumption amongst
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by dpwm 9y ago
I used to believe Twitter was better. But once you're above a certain number of active (i.e. publicly retweeting) followers there's a pretty high chance that your tweets will end up in the feed that is used to generate the twitter
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by dpwm 9y ago
I don't know about the specific campaigns that you are referring to, but in my experience a lot of the information used in campaigns I've been involved in comes from previous canvassing sessions. Political parties in most countrie
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by dpwm 9y ago
> the thought of needing to stand up to a high ranking employee like that is more than a little intimidating. And not just that, but to be expected to "contribute to a discussion" in such a way that all your coworkers can see.
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by dpwm 9y ago
I think you're missing the greater context here. Bosworth's memo is classic end justifies the means. This is almost an admission that they knew things they were doing would be deeply unpopular. The post in full doesn't read a
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by dpwm 9y ago
Bottle [0] is single file, simple web framework for Python. It's pretty easy to use and well documented. It has no dependencies outside the standard library but can optionally use a number of more robust web servers. Flask [1] has simi
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by dpwm 9y ago
Statistically speaking, they're probably not the same "other people's lawyers." As in, you're probably small and they're probably big. Big firms acting for small clients generally doesn't work out so well
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by dpwm 9y ago
And if the warranty-disclaimed item had been sold and depending on the nature of the sale, such term probably wouldn't hold up in many jurisdictions. Otherwise such a term can be carte blanche to fraud.
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by dpwm 9y ago
This is quite a good solution. It reminds me of public transport in some European countries. Yes, you can get on board without a ticket. But there will be a guard who will be on board maybe 1 in 10 times and the fines are substantial. The p
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by dpwm 9y ago
I somehow missed the paragraph where you said about building the platform and the link to the service. This looks awesome then. As somebody who's spent a silly amount of money on EC2 spot instances to train models, I would certainly ov
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by dpwm 9y ago
There's a lot of comments on that reddit thread about how awesome this would be as a service. But there's a big problem of trust with this for ML. How do I know you actually ran what I paid you for and not just generated random da
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by dpwm 9y ago
I'm interested in how you think this would work. As far as I can tell, the enforcing authority for the country where the individual affected resides would need to investigate. And frankly, where a smaller entity was playing fast and lo
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by dpwm 9y ago
> No. This is a fad and will blow over in a few days. I'm not sure you're right. This is spilling into all areas. We don't even know if CA has done all the damage it is going to yet. > No one cares that this happened o
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by dpwm 9y ago
There's also the fact that we now have two people telling mutually exclusive versions of the truth: the whistleblower and the CEO. At most one of these two people can be correct. At least one of them must be wrong. If the whistleblower
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by dpwm 9y ago
I'm still shaken with the magnitude and strength of the revelations that have been made in the last five hours on Cambridge Analytica (though some of the things sound more like SCL -- they share the same CEO). At 7pm GMT we had the Cha
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by dpwm 9y ago
Perhaps Facebook were contacted for comment on the Channel 4 story (in which CA's CEO suggested something that sounded a lot like sex trafficking Ukranians in to Sri Lanka to help a fictional Sri Lankan businessman discredit his oppone
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by dpwm 9y ago
I somewhat doubt they even know or care that there might be bugs before they do something awful. It's like they're using the public highway as their simulator. I don't know if this job ad for a self-driving simulation softwar
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by dpwm 9y ago
I'm reading this charitably as you saying that laws that criminalise distribution regardless of intent or knowledge need to be changed to recognise that with the internet people can effectively commit crimes without knowledge or intent
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by dpwm 9y ago
This sounds more like a problem with the perceived quality of health research than anything else. Given that the healthcare industry and the alcohol industry are fairly good sources of revenue, does anybody have an argument for why we shoul
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by dpwm 9y ago
It immediately reminded me of my days of dabbling in QBasic.
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by dpwm 9y ago
This must be a new record for the New York Times. The first sentence in that article highlights a fundamental misunderstanding that should put anyone's guard up: > For nearly three decades, since a Soviet whistle-blower told the wor
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by dpwm 9y ago
Some immediate uses that spring to mind involve storing data as strings. An example is rendering templates from JSON or a more resource-friendly serialization protocol. What are the limits on the file size of the workers? Also, regarding re
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by dpwm 9y ago
Definitely not fully serious, so I'm pleased you questioned it. There was no stupidity on your part and no joke to ruin. I was simply attempting to construct an argument that can be made before somebody else did so. It's not somet
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by dpwm 9y ago
I think you're ignoring the many positives in this. What would happen to the change-your-life-in-24-hours book segment of the economy; the fad-diet book industry; the people who claim authorship of the books; the photographers who sell
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by dpwm 9y ago
> But I think it fails to grasp the political and economical reality. If the US restricts importations, it harms itself as well as it harms the would-be exporter. It's quite ironic that this is the US we're talking about and th
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by dpwm 9y ago
It's interesting that the US has advocated free trade whilst also being one of the biggest advocates of sanctions for countries with administrations that are not so sympathetic to its plans for them. Perhaps what the USA wants is not r
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by dpwm 9y ago
There are many situations, think university or corporate networks, where you cannot rely on the IP address for tracking. There are ISPs that don't have enough IP addresses for users so they many-to-one NAT them and most users won'
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by dpwm 9y ago
It really depends on what you're doing. If you're doing something where the people you're storing data about don't need to interact with each other, you can actually store each user's events in a separate event log.
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by dpwm 9y ago
That's a relief. I see from the page it's embedded as an iframe, which I didn't know you could do. Changing the iframe to an img on the page does indeed prevent the script executing, at least on Firefox.

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