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by jdp23 10y ago
The ''reality'' is that proponents of key escrow solution (and the "collect it all") approach have consistently made the assumption that intelligence agencies are able to protect the keys and data. The impenet
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by jdp23 10y ago
Really? It seems to me like it's key to pro-mass-surveillance people's support for the "collect it all" approach - and for key escrow schemes in particular. And it ties into the VEP discussions as well.
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Hugo Awards Celebrate Women in Sci-Fi, Send Rabid Puppies to Doghouse(io9.gizmodo.com)
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by jdp23 10y ago
No, this is where he's talking about how "The phenomenon of adding more noise than signal is now practically characteristic of misguided policy proposals in this area". Specifically, he's using the EFF's statement &
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by jdp23 10y ago
Dave's article's certainly worth reading, and he makes some good points. He's certainly closer to the intelligence agency and vulnerability market side of things than EFF is; but that's not the only aspect of the issue.
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Facebook May Owe Billions More in Taxes(wsj.com)
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by jdp23 10y ago
> I actually think that, for technology companies, more people will choose providers that are completely non-political. There's no way for a tech company to be "completely non-political." So I actually think that people w
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by jdp23 10y ago
Another fine example! In what ways do you see your comment as a good example of what I was saying? How do you see the other comments in the thread as examples?
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by jdp23 10y ago
Thanks for illustrating my point so nicely :) For one thing, rather than engaging with what I actually said, you inaccurately framed it as an accusation of misogyny. What other ways do you see your comment as a good example of what I was sa
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by jdp23 10y ago
It certainly can be a challenge for all-male teams to find female candidates. http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/HOWTO_recruit_and_retain_... has some excellent suggestions. How many of these best practices have you
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by jdp23 10y ago
The comments on any HN thread about barriers to gender equity in software engineering illustrate the barriers to gender equity in software engineering.
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FTC’s chief technologist gets her mobile phone number hijacked by ID thief(arstechnica.com)
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Lionel Briand interview on “Testing and verification in the large”(issta2016.cispa.saarland)
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by jdp23 10y ago
Congrats Zassmin and Alaina, what you've accomplished so far is very impressive and looking forward to seeing how things scale!
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by jdp23 10y ago
Thanks for weighing in. Disappointing that Blekko didn't work out better ... but hey, at least you have the t-shirt! Do you think that Duck Duck Go's (relative) success shows that there are still possibilities here?
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by jdp23 10y ago
Clearly the idea that words have meanings beyond statistics terminology is confusing you. And no, I'm not calling standard mathematical terminology Orwellian. What I'm calling Orwellian is your describing a biased system as unbia
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by jdp23 10y ago
The funny thing is that the dictionary definition supports your point, not yummyfajitas. bias: prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
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"Oh sure, this algorithm is much more likely to have false positives on blacks, and much more likely to have false negatives on whites, and the results are that blacks are more likely to treated more harshly by the system. But it&#x27
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Parsey McParseface is a great name.
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One-third of SF Bay Area residents hope to leave soon, poll finds(mercurynews.com)
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by jdp23 11y ago
Thanks for the responses. True, that's what happens in all of those situations, but in the YC Fellowship you call out that they're for people "very early in the process". So the tradeoffs may be different.
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by jdp23 11y ago
Interesting idea, and kudos to you for kicking off the discussions to refine the approach - and for the "be nice" rule, which I think is very important here. A question: What are the situations where you think it will benefit peop
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Masters of Chess, Not Self-Promotion(nytimes.com)
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by jdp23 11y ago
> I'm not using "software QA" in the very broad way you describe in the first sentence. I took this description from your earlier comment "I call it "poor software QA" because 1) and 2)" so yes, you are
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by jdp23 11y ago
Thanks for the reply, and interesting followup with ALICE. If you're using "software QA failure" in the very general sense of "a defect got introduced and then propagated to production", then yes that's what ha
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Microsoft’s Tay Is an Example of Bad Design(medium.com)
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It doesn't sound like the author's done much root cause analysis. QA typically doesn't cause defects (it can only prevent them), so there's almost always a deeper cause. And, QA's not necessarily the best way to f
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by jdp23 11y ago
4. > "About TL:DR ...:" Also par for the course here :)
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by jdp23 11y ago
Like 'justinlardinois I just use "TL:DR summary" to mean a "short summary." I didn't mean it as derogatory, and it doesn't feel dissonant to me -- although given how you view it I can see why you do. And
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by jdp23 11y ago
The blog post is a great overview as well as useful context, thanks for sharing it. TL:DR summary: Scientific results are highly contingent on subjective decisions at the analysis stage. Different (well-founded) data analysis techniques on

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