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by hanbura 9y ago
These questions will get very interesting when self-driving car manufacturers try to enter markets outside the US. It is highly desirable to have local training data, but any large enough effort to collect that data looks indistinguishable
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by hanbura 9y ago
Realistically they would sue you in your country. Worst-case, they have you prosecuted for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and demand extradition (most countries have extradition treaties with the US)
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by hanbura 9y ago
>into what is essentially gambling I think at this point it's important to differentiate: Loot-Crate systems with resellable content (CS:Go etc) are gambling. Loot-Crate systems without resellable content function by the same mecha
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by hanbura 9y ago
Any one error only affects a portion of the network. For example a problem might take Australia or the American East Coast offline, but that doesn't significantly affect the rest of the network (unless they try to reach affected regio
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by hanbura 9y ago
By paying for API access to other search engines. Yahoo used to offer that publicly but eventually shut the service down (but kept DDG as a legacy customer)
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by hanbura 9y ago
Those tests can "disprove" that a sequence is random (quotes because of course a true random generator will occasionally generate suspicious sequences of arbitrary length) But you can't prove that a sequence is indeed random
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by hanbura 9y ago
>Google, for not being able to, "prove a random number is truly random," I really hope they just wanted you to argue that the task is impossible.
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by hanbura 9y ago
>The article doesn't explain anything. Now you at least know why the New Yorker didn't. Joking aside: Probably because they did a good job with the Panama Papers. So it's a mix of strategic investment in investigate journa
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by hanbura 9y ago
I think a most of the problems with ads are just caused by how Google and other big players run online advertising. Somewhere along the way "let's add an image of some company our readers might be interested in" turned into &
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by hanbura 9y ago
That sounds strange to fear something purely based on its medical name. Driving is "rarely fatal", and that seems good enough for almost everybody. premature ventricular contractions are basically extra heart beats that disrupt th
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by hanbura 9y ago
>The fact that you can't verify sources easily is not a symptom. It's a fundamental problem with the Internet today Verifying sources is easier than ever. In the 80s it was a major time investment to verify anything. Today, if
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by hanbura 9y ago
Arguments for British style quotes: - doesn't mutate the quoted string - fewer weird edge cases - encodes more information in same amount of characters (if quote might have ended on punctuation) - needs fewer rules Arguments for Ameri
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by hanbura 9y ago
This happens fairly frequently. Whenever you see a new block that forms a longer chain than the chain you currently know, you throw your work away and use that block as your new starting point. But you only do that if the new block has a lo
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by hanbura 9y ago
That sounds a lot like classic filesharing. But better filesharing isn't really a technical issue, we know how to do all that. It's a niche product because it has none of the legal protections that YouTube has (safe harbour etc).
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by hanbura 9y ago
Fundamentally it's very similar. That's why there is a proliferation of licenses. The MIT vs BSD vs Apache vs GPLv2 vs GPLv3 vs AGPLv3 debate is fundamentally a debate which restrictions are reasonable and which go too far
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by hanbura 9y ago
If you can get your hands on raw licence plates you could probably get it done with scrap wood, a hammer and some paint. If you can find retroreflective foil that looks close enough, a cheapish 3d printer and a good paint job might indeed w
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by hanbura 9y ago
I have prescriptivist tendencies, but I agree that "It has to be that way because it's always been that way" is a stupid argument. I'm simply of the opinion that language that leads to misunderstanding is bad. That'
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by hanbura 9y ago
It also doesn't prevent you from stealing (or buying) a machine that can make licence plates. You can't defend against everything, but any criminal who defeats the current license plates wouldn't have been caught based on his
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by hanbura 9y ago
German licence plates are designed to be cheap to produce in high quality. Tiny licensed shops can just stamp them for you. That's much harder with proportional fonts. And of course OCR, as everybody else already mentioned.
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by hanbura 9y ago
It's probably not a huge issue, otherwise it wouldn't have taken decades from font creation to implementation in licence plates. But if the font change is timed with other plate changes the problem is fixed extremely cheaply. I th
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by hanbura 9y ago
Authorship attribution is the main application discussed in the paper, and there is some thought given to the possibility of detecting ghost writers (i.e. detecting if you let someone else write your code) I think it's promising, bu
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by hanbura 9y ago
Stylometry of regular text can be fairly reliability defeated even by people who don't know how it works. It remains interesting because most people don't do that. The code stylometry in the linked paper is interesting because it
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by hanbura 9y ago
>On a multiple-choice test with four choices per question, someone with no knowledge who guesses randomly will get ~25%. That would be terrible test design. At my (German) university, most Multiple Choice tests give one point for a corre
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by hanbura 9y ago
Not OP, but I think publishing platforms should be able to decide policies who to carry, infrastructure companies on the other hand should at most differentiate by usage patterns, never by ideology. I count ISPs clearly in the infrastructur
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by hanbura 9y ago
The problem with Germany is that Germany is now servicing not just Germany, but also its neighbours because it's an island of legalisation. As a result demand is higher than what the local workforce can provide, making human traffickin
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by hanbura 9y ago
The major quiet time is about 8am - 14am UTC. The difference is very pronounced
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by hanbura 9y ago
Of course Amazon benefits from negative reviews. In a brick-and-mortar shop I can physically inspect the product before buying to judge its quality. Online shops don't have that, so you either have to trust the shop, brand or review sy
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by hanbura 9y ago
I don't think I have any right to see the blueprint of every building I enter. Ensured certification is very different from open source
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by hanbura 9y ago
How is software anything like a contract? The two seem completely unrelated to me
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by hanbura 9y ago
>How about when photons flood the camera/sensor First you try countermeasures, if that fails you remove yourself from traffic. At least that's what humans do in that situation. >or - when photons cover the subject that the

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