lrei

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by lrei 11y ago
Do you have an example of a popular mobile messaging app other than WhatsApp
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by lrei 11y ago
> . Phone numbers are how mobile phones are usually identified, and to ask a mobile messaging app to use something else for identification is, to put it bluntly, quite silly. I disagree it's silly. > There's nothing in the p
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by lrei 11y ago
No one is forcing anyone to make claims about privacy either. 1) New social networks tend to replace old social networks: I'm not forced to use it but, for example, I can't go back to XMPP because others don't use it anymore.
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by lrei 11y ago
Sure there is. My phone number is private information. And it can trivially be traced back to me (no possibility of anonymity). I don't necessarily want to share it with everyone I want to talk to. Or every company that makes a chat ap
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by lrei 11y ago
Apps that force you to give them (and everyone else) your phone numbers for .. ummm ... "contact discovery" and yet talk about privacy are a bit of a contradiction. No plausible reason for why apps like WhatsApp (and Signal) could
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by lrei 11y ago
It's always funny to see the complete disconnect between "best paper awards" and papers that actually end up being important. Not to remove any credit from the undoubtedly great work that it takes to get on that list. It&#x27
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by lrei 11y ago
Obligatory half-joke: The most commonly used definition deduced from reading online articles is, in terms of size "More data than naively fits into the memory of my (midrange) laptop using a high overhead platform" or in terms of
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by lrei 11y ago
The usual way to do Translation Invariance is with the structure of the network resulting in what's called a convolutional neural network (conv+pool actually achieves this). There have been papers about scale/rotation invariant co
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by lrei 12y ago
Bloomberg does native advertisement but they label it as such. The whole anti native advertisement movement seems so late it's silly considering news publishers have been basically doing it for years without any disclaimer. PG wrote ab
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by lrei 12y ago
My lab uses mostly thinkpads with a few people having macbooks instead. I have have a thinkpad at work but bought a MB with my own money. So you know my choice. What I can say is that thinkpad hardware quality varies wildly with some having
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by lrei 12y ago
Thanks. But that challenge is so trivial to defeat by simple pattern matching with zero cost that the cost of adding code to a bot to break this type of challenge seems negligible. PS: it's a the bottom of the landing page (not signup)
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by lrei 12y ago
I wonder why they have the silly 2 + 3 = ? thing in their form at the bottom of the homepage. It's text/html, so it can't be anti-bot and seems like pointless for a human... Does anyone else know the logic behind that?
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by lrei 12y ago
Provably false statement. Not even close to being the first. Qminer [1] has been around for years ;) (disclaimer, I've contributed to it) [1] http://qminer.ijs.si/
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by lrei 12y ago
Yes probably what he was saying. Also, my understanding - not expert, likely wrong - is that it is sometimes done in physics (e.g analyzing data from sensors). But haven't heard any complaints (which does not mean they don't exist
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by lrei 12y ago
I upvoted your comment but a problem in "any field" seems too strong a statement. AFAIK this isn't much of a problem in CS (my field) and never heard math or physics people complaining... Seems to only be problem in Social &q
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by lrei 13y ago
Adoption. Not that many people care/are aware about the privacy/security issues at stake. It was too much of a niche thing (i.e. not for iphone's "average" users) and from a big enough player that Apple wouldn'
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by lrei 13y ago
I would just like to point out that even if they "anonymize" the records it's generally not that hard to de-anonymize data. During the Netflix prize, randomly generated IDs were eventually matched to people based simply on mo
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by lrei 13y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
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by lrei 13y ago
Doesn't seem that hard. It could show up as "department of agriculture/energy/..." bought X million licenses of windows and office spread out over years, a few friendly countries, a few front corporations...
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by lrei 13y ago
My advice: don't run ML algorithms on a laptop. At least not one with a cheap processor (top of the line Core i7 is a different beast I imagine). From my experience, you're better off buying the cheapest laptop and running stuff o
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by lrei 13y ago
Moscow was not his destination. Just the connection. He had to stay in Moscow because the US revoked his passport before he could board the next plane.
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by lrei 13y ago
I saw the movie only a few years ago in my early twenties and I didn't get it. It never occurred to me 'not knowing what it is' meant AIDS back then. I'm not North American so the reference was totally lost on me. Also I
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by lrei 14y ago
Doubt it. Scholar is mostly search. Reader was a lot of things: search (like google news) sync engine, social network (like G+), a complex web app etc. It's probably a lot easier to have someone on the search team maintain scholar than it w
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by lrei 14y ago
Losing value and losing a part is the same thing. Say you have 100 dollars. And with 100 dollars you can buy 100 beans: * The dollar loses 10% value. Now you can only buy 90 beans. * You lose 10% of your 100 dollars. Now you only have 90 do
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by lrei 14y ago
Because if you can't subscribe to a bunch of RSS feeds to follow the news and click on what interests you, the two options you're left with are either remembering to open a bunch of different sites a bunch of times a day to check the news o
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by lrei 14y ago
Sorry but there is no information in the post to justify that using C or assembly is more simple than using python, ruby or clojure. There is also no justification as to why making the code in a library or server simple would result in more
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by lrei 14y ago
Feedburner is next.
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by lrei 14y ago
I guess this makes it clear where Google stands on RSS. I think it's sad. RSS is a lot more open than the alternative: Twitter. Google seems to think that the result of an end to RSS will be good for them. Unless they are planning on buying
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by lrei 14y ago
sure because bitcoin value never went down overnight. Not even 10% like the cypriot savings. Oh wait, never mind. It went down 30% in a single day: http://www.dailytech.com/Digital+Black+Friday+First+Bitcoin+...
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by lrei 14y ago
Why would the EU dissolve if the Euro collapsed? Only 17/27 countries in the EU are in the Eurozone. It would be significantly more complicated to dissolve the whole European Union and dealing with a political and legal mess that would ensu

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