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by majia 8y ago
Actually huawei phones are open sourced, and a few other vendors open source their phones too. https://consumer.huawei.com/en/opensource/ The harder part is to go though the source code.
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by majia 8y ago
How? Google may accidentally feed misleading information to some real users, and this may cause a huge backfire like what happened to FB.
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by majia 8y ago
There are many Google mirror sites, most of which are blocked in China. If the Chinese government decides to work with some of the mirror sites to deliver Google search results in China, on the condition that the mirror sites must censor th
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by majia 8y ago
I didn’t say this is a reason to buy Huawei. I’m suggesting a side effect of security concern is improved security. To make secure software/hardware, it is really valuable to have people of different backgrounds to take a look. This is
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by majia 8y ago
All the security concern about Huawei may actually make its devices more secure in the long run. The heightened scrutiny by various players not only deter Chinese government from conducting blatant hacks, but also expose many conventional v
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by majia 8y ago
3)I doubt China would hack its hardware for intel purpose in the way bloomberg described, not because it doesn’t want to, but because it’s very cost inefficient. China needs to perform the hack on a massive scale to hack a target because it
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by majia 8y ago
Given the scarce technical details provided by Bloomberg and demonstrated Bloomberg reporter’s lack of understanding on how hardware works, it’s entirely possible someone fooled Bloomberg. Bloomberg said it has 17 sources, but perhaps one s
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by majia 8y ago
Very boardly speaking, if something can be easily copied, it means the value-adding part is not comimg up with the idea, but the execution of it.
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by majia 8y ago
I wonder how people would react to the following situation: There are many Google mirror sites, most of which are currently blocked by China. If the Chinese government decides to work with some of the mirror sites to deliver Google search r
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by majia 8y ago
I do agree with you on the general notion of free trade. But in this particular case, there is no mention of any barrier imposed on qualcomm products; the deal is about jointly creating a new product. What I disagree is claiming free trade
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by majia 8y ago
It’s a breach of contract, and it’s wrong. However, when Qualcomm sells its tech, it should factor in this counterparty risk and decide if it is still worth it. I’m not defending this kind of inexcusable behavior; I’m just suggesting free t
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by majia 8y ago
What you said is true in many cases, and it should be stopped. However it does not apply to Qualcomm. Firstly yunnan is an underdeveloped region in China, its provincial governement doesn’t really have the power to harass Qualcomm at a mean
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by majia 8y ago
China is not banning Qualcomm from selling chips in China if Qualcomm doesn’t give up its design, but simply offers a deal that Qualcomm can choose to accept or not. One may argue whether the deal is good for US economy strength, but it is
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by majia 14y ago
This is not a scientific research, so I didn't compute std, t-stats, etc. But I did pull a few hundred tweets from our database and counted how many wrong ones we had. That's where the number comes from. The filtering scheme is very simple:
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by majia 14y ago
We don't remove RT tweets, but instead, we only count each user once. If a user retweeted Michelle, s/he probably will vote for Obama. But if a user have a few tweets in favor of Obama, it's counted once only.
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by majia 14y ago
What we used for counting is slightly different from what you see in the Twitter widgets (yeah, those tweets are from Twitter directly). In our backend, we have a pretty conservative filter that matches a bag of phrases, such as "voted for
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Watch Twitter users say who they voted for in real time(twithinks.mit.edu)
63 points by majia 14y ago|38 comments
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by majia 14y ago
Good observation! It is actually a seven-day smoothing to offset some weekly periodicity, but the backward influence is very limited. We tested this with a hourly granularity without smoothening (the curves become really fuzzy), and it show
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by majia 14y ago
There was a huge hype around Twitter data one or two years back. Then it was followed by suspicion and criticism Now we should take a more balanced view. Twitter data or social media data aren't all-powerful, but I believe that if we look
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by majia 14y ago
Social media data and election are both very subjective topics. We tried to generate some insights, but we thought it would be better to let readers to interpret results themselves.
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Election analyzed through Twitter data(twithinks.mit.edu)
10 points by majia 14y ago|8 comments