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by dthal 12y ago
The federal government is going to have to step in and establish standards here. State elections for federal office affect the entire nation, and indeed the entire world. Given how close U.S. elections often are, it wouldn't take much
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Spritz: A New RC4-Like Stream Cipher(schneier.com)
7 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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Inside San Francisco's housing crisis(vox.com)
90 points by dthal 12y ago|174 comments
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Local cops say your driving history is public-unless you want a copy(firstlook.org)
4 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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DEA Used Seized Photos to Make a Phony Facebook Profile and Impersonate a Woman(slate.com)
2 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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PayPal in Play for Google as Leftover EBay Invites LBO(bloomberg.com)
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First Selfies, Now Shapies? Scanning Booths Capture the Moment in 3-D(bloomberg.com)
21 points by dthal 12y ago|4 comments
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Ghost of Ronald Reagan Authorizes Most NSA Spying(firstlook.org)
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by dthal 12y ago
I found this very surprising. The data that the author is drawing on is here: http://www.demographia.com/db-uzajuris.pdf
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America's Densest Cities(huffingtonpost.com)
2 points by dthal 12y ago|1 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
"It's a bit naive to think that the current MOOC is as good as they will ever get. Clearly, these are early stage products that have substantial evolution and improvement in their future." Actually, I'm starting to get w
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by dthal 12y ago
"An MOOC for a subject is truly just a big wikipedia article." I don't agree with this. I've taken several online courses at EdX (EE, AI) Coursera(ML, PGM) and Udacity(Web App, Hadoop), and the things that are in the o
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by dthal 12y ago
If the class is hard, then the schedule serves an important purpose, which is to keep a group of students together at about the same point in the curriculum. That way, if some of them get stuck, there will be other people working on the sam
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by dthal 12y ago
I disagree. I took Andrew Ng's ML class, and I have a CS(-ish) degree from a tiny state school. Only one of my professors was near Ng's level as an instructor. Also, tiny state schools have a hard time getting and keeping instruct
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How FiveThirtyEight Calculates Pollster Ratings(fivethirtyeight.com)
8 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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New 'Bash' software bug may pose bigger threat than 'Heartbleed'(reuters.com)
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A Decoy Computer Was Set Up Online. See Which Countries Attacked It the Most(bloomberg.com)
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by dthal 12y ago
There is a little bit of information at[1]: Average prices per pop depend on object complexity. However, Jones estimates the range to be anywhere between $15 for simple jobs to $500 for complicated prototypes to $1300 for complex jobs for
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by dthal 12y ago
I get why someone would think that speech is going to be more widely used: the computing world is moving to devices - phones and tablets - that are awkward to type on. Wearables (if they ever become a big thing) won't usually have a ke
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by dthal 12y ago
"We imagine they siphoned off any remaining cash to investors, so they can declare bankruptcy and not pay the court-ordered legal fees." Is that a crime? If it isn't, it seems like it should be. The creditor already has
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by dthal 12y ago
Yet another datapoint on Silicon Valley's collective amnesia about the role that government spending had in getting our industry off the ground. On a different note, I loved this part: And Ellison has worked tirelessly to build that a
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How the FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecast Model Works(fivethirtyeight.com)
9 points by dthal 12y ago|1 comments
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Legal memos released on Bush-era justification for warrantless wiretapping(washingtonpost.com)
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NSA bulk collection of phone data under scrutiny as federal case opens(theguardian.com)
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by dthal 12y ago
Boosting was, I suppose, invented by Schapire and Freund, both CS guys, but its most successful form, gradient boosting was invented by Friedman, a stat professor. Random forests were developed by Breiman and Cutler, both stats professors.
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Corporations Spy on Nonprofits with Impunity(huffingtonpost.com)
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Security experts call for government action against cyber threats(reuters.com)
1 points by dthal 12y ago|1 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
This is a serious question: why isn't this illegal?
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Amid protests, U.S. FCC proposes new 'net neutrality' rules(reuters.com)
1 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
Well...there is this case: http://reason.com/blog/2013/07/05/nevada-family-says-police-... EDIT: erased one of two links

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