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by kharms 9y ago
Do you think the NSA wouldn't have checked access logs and the emails if not for the scan? The difference isn't between getting caught vs. not, it's between getting caught in days vs weeks.
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by kharms 9y ago
I think the real fuckup is including in the article the method for IDing a Russian agent - registering with a personal phone number. That's the kind of mistake that could have been made again, but now probably won't be. On the who
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by kharms 9y ago
This is competing against Sonos and similar audio-focused speakers, at least in my mind. Plus, it's not subsidized by advertising.
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by kharms 9y ago
>That description means the new all-in-one machine will rival the current Mac Pro which will be replaced with a modular version in the future.
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by kharms 9y ago
> There is a tendency to believe that the normal dynamics of markets should be suspended when the product is "really important." I've not seen the argument that they should be suspended as much as that they are. "Real
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by kharms 9y ago
That caveat, yikes! >there is some evidence of botting/spamming on the pro-NN side as well (though likely not to the same degree), which is not investigated in this post, and could shift conclusions.
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by kharms 9y ago
This playlist gives a very nice geometric intuition to a lot of the foundational concepts of linear algebra: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVF...
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by kharms 9y ago
(1) It's often cheaper/free to call numbers on the same network. (2) Business phone/family phone. Edit: speaking from my experience in Eastern Europe. I assume it's similar in India.
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by kharms 9y ago
>We should be dumping these whole datasets into machine learning and having computers give us potential links to explore. You're describing P-value hacking, thus named because hack scientists use this technique to publish papers abo
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by kharms 9y ago
There were two studies, one that was unofficial (just an engineer looking at commits) that found the quoted result. It looked at gender adjusted by tenure. This study didn't have the resources to do that. Then there was a second cover-
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by kharms 9y ago
I've lost a flickr account because yahoo deletes emails that don't get used.
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The Hidden Author of Putinism (2014)(theatlantic.com)
1 points by kharms 9y ago|0 comments
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by kharms 9y ago
It was a credit union, not one of the massive ones, but beyond that I'd rather not say.
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by kharms 9y ago
About a month ago I noticed that my bank had a vulnerability - I could access the details and photos of every remotely deposited check. I sent them an email, they took the feature offline in about 2 hours. No bug bounty but oh well.
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by kharms 9y ago
I strongly suspect (but haven't done the research to prove) that bitcoin is only viable as a currency because of the $ infusions from ransomware.
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Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year(popularmechanics.com)
188 points by kharms 9y ago|141 comments
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by kharms 10y ago
>One of the constraints on fertility treatment if you're at risk is that you can't have any procedure that removes the potential baby's right to choose whether or not to be screened. Can you explain that a little more?
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by kharms 10y ago
I'm pretty tech literate, and even so getting an VPN is a huge pain. First, there is the trade off of speed, location, protocol. Will a US based VPN be private enough? Do they really not log? Who do I trust? Next there is actual usage:
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by kharms 10y ago
That variation doesn't make much sense as a paradox. If (i) you know that you should stay 100% success. If (ii) you know you should switch, 50% success.
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by kharms 10y ago
I always assumed "frustration free" packaging was their way of resealing returned goods.
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by kharms 10y ago
>Google offers contracts and standard business relationships for some commercial uses of their API. Workflow could have reached out to the appropriate Google product person/lawyer, instead of sending a generic email as Marco specula
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by kharms 10y ago
I think the disconnect is in what "help" looks like. From the "city folk" point of view, help means removing barriers: healthcare, education, affordable housing, child care, etc. Creating jobs in where they don't ge
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by kharms 10y ago
>VPN'ing around your ISP is about the same level of difficulty as setting your default search engine to not be google. Not even close. VPN involves: * Knowledge of the purpose of a VPN * Knowledge of a specific VPN * Money to pay fo
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by kharms 10y ago
>I really want to stop having to type killall Finder because I dragged too many files. For what it's worth, I think this will be addressed by the switch to AFS.
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by kharms 10y ago
Curiously few mentions of Ukraine, Belarus, Russia in the first half. You'd think they've produced enough literature to be mentioned, but no. Then this gem: > A haphazard construction, held together by little more than dynastic
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by kharms 10y ago
"Natural dog" is a silly term. Dogs are a domesticated animal and breeds have been around for almost as long as writing. [1] I call mine a "mutt" - it's inoffensive and gets the point across. [1] https://
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by kharms 10y ago
Not something for you to work on, but something you can do in the mean time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computin...
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by kharms 10y ago
In 90s Ukraine you could make free calls using a the tab of canned soda drinks, I think it was the same size as the 2 piece coin.
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by kharms 10y ago
A family having two kids would typically have one girl and one boy, which means the name ("the family") would carry on only half of the time, which means there would be no growth. You'd need a higher rate to grow just based o
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by kharms 10y ago
Depending on the algorithm, there is this: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~marcotcr/blog/lime/ It's a neat approach that I've used with some random forest classifiers.

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