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by frabcus 11y ago
I strongly suspect that at the time they signed the deal (5 years ago), Twitter didn't have the technical capability to resell data (the site itself was going down lots!), so they had to do deal with DataSift and others. DataSift previ
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I collected the CVs of 687 people standing for Parliament(cv.democracyclub.org.uk)
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by frabcus 11y ago
Of course moving to Rust (or Go) won't fix all security bugs. It will though stop ordinary random code having remote code execution or spurious data leak bugs. That is really significant. It needs cheering and encouraging now, and soon
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Cyanogen teams up with Microsoft to offer bundled apps and services(androidcentral.com)
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by frabcus 12y ago
Well, Instagram and Twitter are converging in terms of feature set. They're pretty well indistinguishable now. They've not totally converged in terms of audience, but I think have surprising overlaps. Lots of Twitter data use case
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by frabcus 12y ago
I'm sure Datasift saw it coming. I researched this last summer. Even before I was explicitly told all the original firehose contracts were five years long, I could infer it from attitudes and behaviours. I'm excited that Datasift
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by frabcus 12y ago
I think this needs more detail as to what stage in the tech lifecycle the businesses are in. Obviously, I'm going to trust an electricity company to provide my business with electricity. I'm even going to trust laptop manufacture
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by frabcus 12y ago
At ScraperWiki, we had our Twitter to spreadsheet tool cut off (at a much more modest size!). I wrote up an analysis of where you can get Twitter data from and why which is relevant: https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2014/08
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by frabcus 12y ago
Financial Times.
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by frabcus 12y ago
My view - based on no evidence, just reasoning from what we know - is that China are scared of Github. They can't shut it down fully, because doing so would shut down their software engineering capability (it has got that important). A
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by frabcus 12y ago
A long cold cyberwar http://www.flourish.org/2015/01/long-cold-cyberwar/
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Curriculum Vitae of Future Members of Parliament(cv.democracyclub.org.uk)
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by frabcus 12y ago
I still can't stop myself typing `lynx -mime_header` to see server headers!
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by frabcus 12y ago
The early ones did have serious programmers at them. My first memory of one is Yahoo using it to get people to use its API in London, about 10 years ago. That was when a web API with major data behind it was an important new thing. The open
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by frabcus 12y ago
Good marketing is part of a quality product. A key stage is hearing about a product at all - it is completely useless if you never hear about it. See my blog post "How to use time-travelling anthropologist pollsters to tell good from
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by frabcus 12y ago
This article by Eleanor Saitta (Dymaxion) is excellent on this stuff: "Ethics and Power in the Long War" https://noisysquare.com/ethics-and-power-in-the-long-war-ele... You're right that stopping it political
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by frabcus 12y ago
I went to, probably the same, (big data) Gigaom event. I really enjoyed it - good people and talks. There weren't, however, many customers there. It was all other people selling stuff. So I didn't go again. The recent wave of data
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by frabcus 12y ago
The idea is to get everyone to routinely use encryption like Signal. This increases the cost of drag-net surveillance, forcing instead more specific targets. For that scenario, it doesn't matter if you're also vulnerable to direct
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by frabcus 12y ago
My guess is it's political - they want the public to also be excited about the mysterious new plane, and approve the budget.
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by frabcus 12y ago
Great! The TextSecure brand is unfortunately dead to me. Although I liked the idea in theory of the SMS backwards compatibilty layer, in practice it confused people and caused technical problems which stopped many of my friends using it. Wi
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by frabcus 12y ago
Only the Android version of WhatsApp has encryption, as far as I can tell. Also WhatsApp (i.e. Facebook) get the metadata still - who messaged who, and when.
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by frabcus 12y ago
Upvoted as this was a reasonable comment with good questions. I think Altman was more prompting a conversation than anything - certainly using AI to at least detect AI development is a cute idea. It's much like we use seismographs in o
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by frabcus 12y ago
I think it's because Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence is the first general reader overview of the subject, and it came out middle of last year. Musk definitely read it, and I assume it's doing the rounds of the tech elit
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by frabcus 12y ago
The US Government regulates all sorts of things that keep you safe - from pollution of your water supply through to seatbelts. It's not perfect, and it often fails at regulation. But your post doesn't give any help to understandin
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by frabcus 12y ago
Just watched Fringe for the first time, which was the last thing Nimoy was in before retiring. Some great scenes with him, lots of gravitas.
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The advert wars(flourish.org)
1 points by frabcus 12y ago|0 comments
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by frabcus 12y ago
Reading that letter for the first time in years (and having worked on a commercial startup for the first time since)... My main question is, how could Bill Gates afford the $40,000 of computer time? That's quite a lot of capital at the
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by frabcus 12y ago
How do you know something has been downvoted? Unless it is so bad it goes grey, I can't see any indication.
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by frabcus 12y ago
This isn't true - the core skill of controlling classes is pretty hard. It's not an intellectual skill, but a social intelligence one.
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by frabcus 12y ago
There were some great new tools mentioned on there - like "callgraph" for plotting the callgraph. I can't however find any instructions how to download and install them. Anyone able to help me?

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