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by feral 15y ago
>You have to play sc2 or similar games for years before that kind of advice becomes applicable (since there is so much basic skill to pick up before the game becomes that strategic), and by the time you know the game well enough to find
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by feral 15y ago
"Sun Tzu said: The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defea
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by feral 15y ago
I disagree with the spirit of this comment. You don't need to ban all communication, to remove privacy in practice. Crypto is currently usable in practice. Its a bit hard for many users, but its doable, especially with modern VPN implement
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by feral 15y ago
Bad article; lots of hyperbole, no real details on what the computational units are like, and why they are cool. Brains are a non-von-neumann architecture, yes, and brains can do cool stuff. But there's a huge complexity challenge to using
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by feral 15y ago
I honestly don't know how long it would take them. It would very much depend on their technical sophistication, their experience with writing network analysis code, etc. I'm not sure it would make the analysis trivial, but you certainly cou
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by feral 15y ago
We are aware that this is an assumption. We refer to the 'alleged thief' at several points in our paper, and I mention this in the blog comments. We'd never get our point across if we exhaustively stated every single assumption we made - bu
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by feral 15y ago
I'd say the most correct answer is 'no, its not possible'. Bitcoins don't exist as independently tracked entities in the system, as such. Lets say an address with 10 unmarked Bitcoins receives 10 marked Bitcoins, such that its balance is no
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by feral 15y ago
Yes, absolutely. We actually wrote a sentence in our paper addressing this: "While there is an under- standing amongst Bitcoin’s technical users that anonymity is not a prominent design goal of the system, we believe that this awareness is
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by feral 15y ago
The fact that the transactions are public is a separate issue vs. whether they are anonymous. The reason people think Bitcoin is anonymous is because they think that identities cannot be linked to the addresses involved in the public transa
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by feral 15y ago
That's really nice work. I think it should be adopted by the official client, and, ideally, the users educated as to its usage; it would mitigate a lot of the entity resolution, which our work shows is a widespread problem.
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by feral 15y ago
Those are great questions. 1) We made a decision that the purpose of this specific work was to illustrate anonymity pitfalls, for the benefit of users generally, and not to de-anonymise any individual users. As such, we haven't dug deep to
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by feral 15y ago
I'm one of the authors. This work is about looking at the Bitcoin transaction history as a network, and investigating privacy and anonymity, in practice, on it - something there's been a good bit of discussion around recently. You can see a
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by feral 15y ago
>The fact that a totally generic AI system with zero knowledge of the game can learn on the fly and beat the hand-tuned AI is pretty impressive. Yes; but, like, Samuel's learning checker playing programs in the 50s and 60s did that. &#6
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by feral 15y ago
The GP was pointing out that out of the small (relative to the number of college dropouts) group of Harvard MBA grads, there have been quite a few tech startups. You are right that any such correlation doesn't imply causality - maybe the MB
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by feral 15y ago
Not at expert in this area, but its interesting stuff. Obviously, its nothing like the headline of 'computers learns to play by reading manual'. Sounds more like 'manual provides context hints to help guide search'. I'm not sure the baseli
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by feral 15y ago
I think Google are really dropping the ball here. You get one shot where each user will try your product, and decide to stick with it a while, or write it off. If I get a Google+ account, if my friends aren't on it after a few days, then I
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by feral 15y ago
I notice most comments broadly support this message. Well, I think you are all stupid and wrong ;P (kidding!) But I do believe there is a big difference between being humble, and being falsely humble. I believe in being humble, to a point,
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by feral 16y ago
If you are interested in ergonomics, don't use a laptop keyboard in your office; not on a desk, or on a chair on a desk. There's simply no way to use the laptop keyboard, and have the screen at the right height. Use the laptop to drive your
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by feral 16y ago
>So.... your argument is that we should stop building nuclear plants using 50 year old designs? I think that problem is already well solved. No. My argument was that the reasoning in Monbiot's article was bad. >New nuclear plants wo
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by feral 16y ago
This article is bad. There will always be unknown unknowns. One such happened in Fukushima - an earthquake and tsunami exceeding design specifications; the earthquake logarithmically so. This resulted in near total defeat of the safety pro
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by feral 16y ago
I think you are being too harsh on WEKA. One of the cool things they've taken the trouble to do is to make sure that almost all functionality is accessible from the command line. As such WEKA is easily scriptable. This is great for integrat
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by feral 16y ago
Counter-example: Ryanair is a hugely successful airline business in Europe. Its advertising and marketing strategy is about low price above all else, and unashamedly so. Look at their garish and ugly website: http://www.ryanair.com/en Cou
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by feral 16y ago
"Write. Write a book in the next three days. You can write a 30 page book about dieting ('100 ways to Lose 100 pounds') and put it on sale on Amazon in one day. Why not?" ...because you aren't a professional writer? It takes time to learn
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by feral 16y ago
A 1-2 page article, highlighting why this language is worth checking out, would be a much more useful submission than a link to the github repository. The readme on the github page doesn't contain much more information than the title on HN.
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by feral 16y ago
I've been trying to figure out what he was getting at, as well. The original article, by Elliotte, seems to have updated the code snippet to: ' String s = ""; for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) { s += args[i]; } ' I deduce from thi
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by feral 16y ago
That is not the point of the article. The author specifically writes: "The nature of commenting on the web needs to feel organic and fluid, just like it does in real life. And even anonymous if necessary, though that’s not at the core of m
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by feral 16y ago
Just to clarify, I never mentioned aid. What's rational does of course depends on what axioms you have. I guess its not obvious, so I'll explain my thinking. I think there are two broad scenarios. Scenario 1: You care about increasing well-
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by feral 16y ago
>The Rational Use For Excess Money is Longevity Science Depending on how you calculate it, something like one quarter of the world's population live on less than 2$ a day. Many of them die due to a lack of absolute basics, like food, or
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by feral 16y ago
Thanks for the detailed response. >It is also possible that humans have a greater intrinsic capacity for subjective experience independently of any cognitive process. I must disagree with you here - I would say that subjective experienc
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by feral 16y ago
It is hard to have this conversation on hacker news. The format works well for general discussion, but this is a particularly subtle topic - its hard to make conversational progress before several essays back and forth to pin down a set of

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