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by jdp23 10y ago
congrats, Anil! Great news for Fog Creek, and a great opportunity for you to have a big impact on software development! Hopefully one of the early things you'll be focusing on is the diversity of GoMix's technology (including bui
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A classic HN moment: 'dang tells me I'm right, and I'm downvoted to -3 :) > the alternative is impossible Interesting phrasing.
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Perhaps grounding your moderation policies around concepts you know are undefined and inseparable isn't the best basis for moderating the site. As for how people see your actions: labeling it as "projecting" might make you fe
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by jdp23 10y ago
Well, Paul actually did change the ranking algorithm to penalize anything Snowden or NSA-related. He also adjusted the ranking to penalize discussions of TSA policies which directly affect entrepreneurs who have to travel in and to the U
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Something Happened to Riseup, but It Hasn’t Been Compromised(theintercept.com)
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by jdp23 10y ago
"This exploit is impressive because it manages to bypass modern protections such as ASLR and NX without being able to programmatically interact with the target software."
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Elegant 0-day unicorn underscores “serious concerns” about Linux security(arstechnica.com)
2 points by jdp23 10y ago|1 comments
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Evan and FFTF have been actively working against NSA spying under the Obama administration. The EFF and EPIC, which have been around longer, has worked against NSA spying under the Obama, Bush II, Clinton, and Bush I organizations; the ACLU
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by jdp23 10y ago
This might be the best diversity-related comment I've ever seen on Hacker News. Of course it was downvoted.
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by jdp23 10y ago
Flagged. This post is clearly on-topic, so to me this looks like a classic example of HN suppressing discussion of racism and sexism in the Silicon Valley startup community. I'm curious how it looks to the moderators.
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If you're black or female, Uber is more likely to overcharge or cancel your ride(mcclatchydc.com)
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by jdp23 10y ago
Kind of the inverse of the Sokal affair, where a physicist got a gibberish paper accepted by a cultural studies journal. [1] Although this seems like a pay-to-present conference, so really just a scam. Still, I liked his quote: "I kn
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Why does the tech world still embrace Peter Thiel?(theguardian.com)
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REAL-ID is effectively a national ID card. Organizations like EFF and ACLU have been opposed to REAL-ID on privacy and civil liberties grounds since it was passed in 2005. Libertarian groups like Cato also highlight that it's a huge
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‘We Care Deeply About Diversity’: Zuckerberg Defends Thiel’s Ties to Trump(mediaite.com)
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Next you're probably going to deny that you're bullying Facebook!!!!!! :)
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Totally agree with 'genericpseudo and 'joesmo. YC's created the environment that's so tolerant of racism and sexism. If they don't want people who care about bigotry to abandon the site, it's up to them to
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by jdp23 10y ago
Jennifer Daskal has some interesting perspectives on this on Just Security. https://www.justsecurity.org/33577/dangerous-implications-mi...
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LendUp (YC W12) will pay millions in penalties to CFPB and consumers(buzzfeed.com)
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Here's the research paper, Automated Whitebox Fuzz Testing by Patrice Godefroid, Michael Levin, and David Molnar: "Our approach records an actual run of the program under test on a well-formed input, symbolically evaluate
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by jdp23 10y ago
It's really strange how far most group moderation systems have regressed from Slashdot's features. The algorithms are more powerful now but users have a lot less control. It's like they used to say about ALGOL-60: it was a
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by jdp23 10y ago
Totally agree. One of G+'s advantages over FB when they launched was that it was better on a laptop screen. Not only haven't they built on that, they've regressed.
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That's not what "condone" means. And, with trigger warnings he explicitly said they don't support them - so it's reasonable to assume that if he meant "support' here that's what he would have said.
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> "She is a nurse" is also not a bias. It's a prior ... Assuming that lower-status professions are female and higher-status professions are male ("he is a doctor") when translating ungendered words is indeed a bi
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I'm not convinced by your skepticism about correcting prejudiced bias. Debiasing certainly gives the AI a understanding of the world than the original (biased) language dataset, but it's not necessarily less complete - or less a
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by jdp23 10y ago
Very interesting results. I really like the approach of paralleling the classic bias experiments. And I think your recommendations in the last paragraph of the "Awareness is better than blindness" section are excellent - althoug
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Shadow Brokers and the Leaking Ship(lawfareblog.com)
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Oh look, here's Nicholas Weaver on Lawfare making a very similar point about vulnerability disclosures: "How is NSA changing the equities process now that "someone stealing the NSA's tools" has to be explicitly incl
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Sigh. Try reading the thread again, starting with 'tptacek's comment that ""The NSA is impenetrable" is not and was not the prevailing narrative, to say the least."
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I don't really know how to respond to this. Paraphrasing this conversation so far: tptacek: "The NSA is impenetrable" is not and was not the prevailing narrative, to say the least." me: I disagree; it's part of the

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