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by feral 10y ago
> If we don't care about being secure against an attacker who controls Facebook then what was the point of end-to-end encryption in the first place? As a user of WhatsApp, I'd prefer if it was fully robustly end-to-end encrypte
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by feral 10y ago
There's a split in the HN community on this issue. The split seems to be: - Some people are OK with compromise for usability - Others think being uncompromising is the only way to eventually achieve security. (This group is also, righ
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by feral 10y ago
A great many practical ML systems actually delivering business value are just scaled linear and logistic regressions (if not custom coded rules!)
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by feral 10y ago
> What exactly do you think is the worst thing that could happen if you "catch" them doing this? [I'm not the OP, but my 0.02]: Hopefully there would be an outcry, initially started by technically sophisticated communities
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by feral 10y ago
>just trusts that "I heard WhatsApp is secure, so I'm good to go", then so much is sacrificed that there wasn't any point in the exercise to begin with. Except that real solid systems, with direct user control over ke
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by feral 10y ago
Therefore any time we see an implementation weakness it should be reported as an intentional backdoor? Is this really what we want? What would we then say if we got proof that they actually put an intentional backdoor in? That's clearl
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by feral 10y ago
I am flagging this article, as the headline and first few paragraphs are very misleading, based on my understanding from: https://tobi.rocks/2016/04/whats-app-retransmission-vulnerab... They make it sound like an
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by feral 10y ago
No - If the only thing computers couldn't beat humans at was reading tells, they'd win online poker. But they don't yet do that: this paper is about beating humans at heads up, which is a much more limited domain than a full
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by feral 10y ago
This isn't unusual though. You know they add Chlorine to many municipal water supplies? Chlorine gas was used as a chemical weapon in WW1.
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by feral 10y ago
That's unfair to the original commenter, JumpCrisscross, who was specifically talking about "accredited investor" status - where the government allows people with >$1M to make investments they forbid others to. Yes, that
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by feral 10y ago
If you're paying an engineer $100k to add 150k worth of value to your product, the true value of their work is $300k: $150k worth of value to you, and $150k worth of value that isn't added to your next closest competitor. That m
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by feral 10y ago
I agree with this; I've seen people writing off AlphaGo as if it was very little new conceptually over MCTS (but just with more hardware). But the power of the NN was surprising. There's a paragraph from the AlphoGo paper that I
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by feral 10y ago
Technologists have above average wealth, and have influence on the future of technology and society. There are many here. At some point the size and power of a news site increases beyond the point where its just a toy - like it or not (se
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by feral 10y ago
>whether or not science ought to be the way you describe it, I'm assuming a charitable readership - but its frequently stated, and I agree, that industry is for high value things we know will work, science/research/acade
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by feral 10y ago
'I know half the money I spent on advertising is wasted, but I don't know which half.' A lot of research is supposed to be new, uncertain, high-risk, high-reward. So it should fail often. [A lot is also to be meticulous fact
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by feral 10y ago
That seems a very specific/narrow point, not a general objection. But anyway: I guess its possible human biological hardware does something difficult to simulate on a computer (at least one similar to our current architectures.) Given
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by feral 10y ago
In fairness to Kurzweil, he isn't talking about a simple chatbot. That's a pretty big difference. But beyond that, there's an argument that there's no clear distinction between a simulation of a person and the person. If
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by feral 10y ago
I studied Prolog in college (3rd CS year course, 2003). I concluded it didn't deliver on its promise. The promise was that, as in the article, you 'Say what you want, not how you want it done.' In practice, once you start wri
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by feral 10y ago
> No one is advocating putting medical records on the blockchain. That's crazy. The post I responded to seemed to be. It implied the data would be "distributed upon 5,000+ worldwide nodes in an immutable data ledger", and
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by feral 10y ago
No; using the Bitcoin blockchain to store medical records is a terrible idea. Yes, they are robustly distributed on each of 5,000 worldwide nodes. But, think about that! How's that going to work for 10 million patients' MRI reco
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by feral 10y ago
Initially I thought you were advocating only reading the start and end of books. I was going to make a comment about only running the start and end of a marathon - you might get the best bits of the atmosphere, and afterwards be able to di
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by feral 10y ago
>Every single person who had rights on the sources for audio you used. What if my 'AI' was a human who learned to speak by being trained with the voices of hundreds of people from dozens of other sources? What's the diffe
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by feral 10y ago
That's a lot of detail, which I'm not familiar with as a causal observer, but its irrelevant. The slides show the capabilities of one layer of the onion, but its surely naive to assume that's everything? A total mathematical
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by feral 10y ago
>keep your entire organization in the dark I think employees of the NSA will be used to the idea of compartmentalization. > successfully recruit every academic Why that ridiculously high bar? Original article estimates 100 mathematica
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by feral 10y ago
>As they are still so keen on controlling encryption we can assume with good confidence that so far they have failed. "assume with good confidence" - this is very naive. They're not going to advertise their super secret br
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by feral 10y ago
> edit: ah, I see. Specific pointer to relative dates in the article. Good catch! Also, your post spurred me to more searching: http://babylon.acad.cai.cam.ac.uk/people/dmh/engineering/eng... File modifica
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by feral 10y ago
I would go with: End September / Start October, 2003 Based on the evidence the other posters mentioned, and: "In the last few days the entire area of mainland Italy was hit and some 50,000,000 people were left without electricity.
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by feral 10y ago
Oscar Wilde: "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing." > the cost of station is not what it is worth, that's simply the cost. Yeah, but isn't it also wrong to say that the price i
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by feral 10y ago
Its a totally reasonable decision to target an audience, that I might fall outside. My primary thrust is neither the 'Actuals' copy on the landing page, nor the 'Actuals' explainer video explain the term. (OP has explai
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by feral 10y ago
I really think businesses would benefit from using tools like this to do their planning. Just today, making LTV projections, I wanted something like this. I considered making a model in Bugs/Stan or Python or something, because my spre

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