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by eis 6y ago
Right. Another way to think about bloom filters is a data structure that remembers a list of hashes. It will tell you "oh I saw this hash before". What it will NOT tell you is "oh I saw this element before". If "F
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by eis 6y ago
It's an interesting thought but I'd argue the following. First, the definition of Bloom filters is a probabilistic data structure to test the presence of an element in a set no matter the program logic around it. But secondly, giv
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by eis 6y ago
Bloom filters have no false negatives, they have only false positives. If it were the other way round, they would be of no practical use as you'd have to query the original datastructure in any case: - If the bloom filter said "Tr
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by eis 6y ago
It seems that the business in question is in the travel industry, specifically helping people find airport parking deals. Due to the Covid-19 situation I'm sure they got hit very hard and a lot of chargebacks or refunds happened as fli
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by eis 6y ago
To add: In a distributed system, an ordering guarantee by producer (and optionally partition "key" which in the end is like an extension of the topic key) is pretty much all you need and all you can get. If you have two producers
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by eis 6y ago
The Wren language has been around a lot longer than the project you linked.
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by eis 6y ago
I always found Cambodia suspect!
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by eis 6y ago
In my Firefox on a Macbook the animations seem janky. The toast example does not work at all. When something like the drawer opens, the main content part of the page jumps and moves to the side a bit only to jump back when the drawer gets c
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by eis 6y ago
It can be either depending on the system. https://golang.org/ref/spec#Numeric_types
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by eis 6y ago
Yep. Here a Go playground example showing that the result is indeed wrong: https://play.golang.org/p/vmctMFUevPc It should output 3 but outputs 5 because each ö is two bytes, len("föö") = 5. I would suggest u
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U.S. coronavirus supply spree sparks outrage among allies(reuters.com)
5 points by eis 7y ago|1 comments
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by eis 7y ago
From what I can read in the privacy policy, speech recognition is performed via an API from Microsoft. So it's both online, cannot be considered fully free software (as a major part is performed by a closed API) and I'd hesitate t
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by eis 7y ago
From the Privacy Policy: > The Almond app also makes use of the Microsoft Cognitive Services Speech API to perform speech recognition. This is only activate when you click on the "Listen" button. ... These services are governed
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by eis 7y ago
Thank you for your reply. I see that it's rather easy to do that for websites running behind CF as you terminate the traffic and can just set the corresponding header. But for websites outside your network I don't see any obvious
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by eis 7y ago
The article mentions that WARP is exposing the end user's IP to websites they visit. I'd be interested in how they do that, especially with HTTPS websites where they can't MITM and inject headers. > WARP is not designed to
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by eis 7y ago
Please see my other comment which references the definition of false positive rate because I think your understanding of the term is wrong. You have a 50% alarm/trigger rate in mind. And please try to reply with a bit more substance th
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by eis 7y ago
I think this is a misunderstanding. From Wikipedia [1]: > A false positive error, or in short a false positive, commonly called a "false alarm", is a result that indicates a given condition exists, when it does not. So a 50% fa
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by eis 7y ago
A false positive rate of close to 50% means that every second alert indeed pointed at something real. That should not cause the staff to get unmotivated. Again, without the false negative rate we can't judge if they are complete bullsh
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by eis 7y ago
But they don't always alarm according to the number that was presented. It alarms twice as many times as it should. That's not good and I certainly wouldn't want these in public spaces. But you can't just look at the fal
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by eis 7y ago
> Millimeter-wave machines at airports today are totally and completely useless. Germany's transportation administration reported a 54% false positive rate for these pieces of rubbish. You are better off randomly searching people by
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by eis 7y ago
This war on Huawei is not about F/OSS but about depending on US suppliers. Intel and AMD have to stop supplying processors to Huawei and there are no viable F/OSS processors. Qualcomm will stop supplying SoCs. What does the US thi
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by eis 8y ago
I agree with yours as well. But to add to that: there are VC startups that are fun and exciting to work at and there are ones that are horrible. And the same goes for big companies btw. Overall though, the chance of finding more freedom and
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by eis 8y ago
Not worthless but the deal they get is usually a lot worse than the deal a VC gets. Are they getting paid enough to account for the risk? A VC will make more money and have less risk (overall). An employee will most likely make not much mor
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by eis 8y ago
VCs win if enough of their bets make it big enough to offset the ones that go under. Naturally the big hits are few and the ones that fail are numerous. That means the big hits need to be huge and the failures need to have a certain cap. Th
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by eis 8y ago
The FAQ says the battery can't be replaced. So you'll have a few years of life from it most likely. I totally agree that they should update the Nano S with the updated architecture for people who don't want the bluetooth atta
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by eis 8y ago
This is great to hear. The website did not contain this information from what I could see. Just to clarify: does that mean that the screen and buttons are 100% controlled by the ST33 and do not go through the unsecure chip?
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by eis 8y ago
Maybe not the best timing for a launch of a device that's basically the Nano S + Bluetooth after the 25C3 presentation which showed what security issues the Nano S is facing. I doubt they had time to address those. I'd prefer the
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by eis 8y ago
That's pretty much what the title already says.
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by eis 8y ago
> I think you're missing the point about self-hosted db's though - people will not choose to put their data on pushdata.io because their own database cannot handle the amount of data they have, but because it is more convenient
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by eis 8y ago
> It should be really, really simple and for small-to-medium scale usage (in terms of number of data points stored). To me those tiers are more like tiny-to-small scale :) The problem with these small numbers is that it's trivial to

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