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by eggie 11y ago
Beautiful. I just spent two weeks wandering around trying to figure out the name of accelerated MD, and suddenly you've got the boldness to educate HN about it. There is a fruitful space of combining good priors about the pattern of fo
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by eggie 11y ago
It can be done, but it will take time. My folks, who commute by car every day, loved Waze until it was bought. They ended up feeling the quality went way down and also locked out of the fruits of their labor: My mom was banned for making a
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by eggie 11y ago
> basic sniff test Here's another whiff from a similar perspective. Back in the day people were using open social media (e.g. Geocities) and posting everything on a public web that was searchable (if poorly) and generally laterally
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by eggie 11y ago
> Yes we still have work. Infrastructure is still a big issue. If we want to reduce centralization, we need better infrastructure and equal access to it. That one is very political. If you want to work for an open internet, this is the k
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by eggie 11y ago
As someone who is outside of the security research community, the repeated assertion that "telegram is broken" is rather hard to accept without an example exploit. I would really appreciate if someone with the knowledge of how to
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by eggie 11y ago
> Telegram has broken crypto, doesn't ecrypt by default and the authors being arrogant about their broken crypto doesn't exactly inspire confidence. As a lay-person in this space, could you explain what's wrong with their
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by eggie 11y ago
A related thread of research uses bacteriocins as negative selective systems in cloning. http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/03/23/nar.g... This is a huge and loosely explored space, bu
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by eggie 11y ago
There is really not any way to know without the right study design. However, if there are multiple ways that each could cause the other, it may be a kind of dialectical process. For example, smiling can make you happy if you force yourself
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by eggie 11y ago
By definition the channels that they are blocking are public. They offer end to end encryption, which should be as secure as reasonably possible in any communication medium. Hopefully they will make their server code public soon so it can b
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by eggie 11y ago
Or perhaps it motivates the idea that if you do not use facebook you can never be completely "safe".
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by eggie 11y ago
Unless the data can somehow be shared how is anyone to know what the structure is? There is no point in speculating...
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by eggie 11y ago
The idea that social media can do this is the central conceit of facebook. A friendship maintained solely because of an entry in a database is not the same as one driven by the memories of the participants. You are not extending your abilit
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by eggie 11y ago
I bet you would have just as many friends without facebook. That's limited by your capacity to make friends, not the social media you use.
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by eggie 11y ago
How could that happen? If they have your DNA and find it at a crime scene and correctly identify you, wouldn't it mean that you were at the crime scene at some point? Perhaps at least you should be contacted to find out what you know.
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by eggie 11y ago
Unfortunately you are mistaken. The problem here is not the sharing of DNA information, but the incredibly poor resolution of the standard tests that are used in forensics. > Two seemingly unrelated individuals—one white and one black—sh
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by eggie 11y ago
Another point, which is that although the precise composition of alleles in one individual is not known, even a handful of markers are enough to identify a member of a given family. People will share their genomes because sharing is incredi
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by eggie 11y ago
We have not had this form of privacy for a long time, and I doubt we will regain it unless we would like to do away with DNA evidence altogether. If anything we should be pushing for more precision in the use of DNA samples as evidence. The
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by eggie 11y ago
As they are taking photos of the same people so that there is not question as to their identity in the future. What makes DNA different than the photo?
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by eggie 11y ago
When it comes to DNA we are already nude. You will have better luck keeping your face private and going about a normal life than hiding your genome from the world. The former can be accomplished with a mask. The latter requires living in a
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by eggie 11y ago
I have a lot of faith in the EFF but in this case I think they are confused. Our DNA is one of the least private aspects of ourselves. We share the vast majority of it with our family and even neighbors. The idea of hiding it is absurdly im
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by eggie 11y ago
This cycle of hype is extremely similar to what's going on with mobile advertising on Facebook. It's described pretty clearly in one of Evan Spiegel's "leaked" emails from 2013: > Facebook has continued to perfo
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by eggie 11y ago
Hi lmeyerov, I'll reach out by emailing you on GitHub or via graphistry. Unfortunately, I won't be able to use anything proprietary in production. Also I need solutions that are self contained executables and capable of scaling to
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by eggie 11y ago
For layout I have found nothing faster than mars https://github.com/marckhoury/mars . I have to work with graphs of hundreds of millions of nodes. Just looking at fragments of them of tens of thousands of nodes in reaso
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by eggie 11y ago
> Are they planning to pay for personal assistants for everyone? In the new rules of the new economy, this won't be a problem. Money grows on trees. "Ad" infinity!
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by eggie 11y ago
I love the increase in bio topics making it onto the front page. The subject matter is basic but the quality of the comments is always getting better. Go bio!
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by eggie 11y ago
It is impressive how far that's come. It would be nice to do this again on modern systems.
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by eggie 11y ago
I see you are downvoted, but I had a laugh. It looks familiar. ( https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/01/f9/75/01f975659... )
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by eggie 11y ago
I have so much trouble understanding their numbers in light of the persistent decrease in interest in facebook as a fraction of total search volume ( https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F02y1vz ). I know the pa
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by eggie 11y ago
The fact that members of all of these groups readily hybridize would violate some interpretations of the concept of species. The article exposes the arbitrariness of the concept. Also, mtDNA and microsatellites (short stretches of repetitiv
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by eggie 11y ago
I think this is happening, if slowly. The impact of open publications is generally known to be much higher. It's only a matter of time until this is accepted as fact by everyone, even the conservative older types who believe that anony

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