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by mayank 16y ago
This is a really old cartoon, but it's finally coming true. In many ways, this is the showdown a lot of us have been waiting for since Lars Ulrich went up on the stand: http://www.caglecartoons.com/images/preview/%7Bac7d2177-a870...
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by mayank 16y ago
Actually, the paper you should be reading is this: "Power-law distributions in empirical data", Aaron Clauset, Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, M. E. J. Newman http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1062
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by mayank 16y ago
This almost exists, it's FOSS and is called PhoneGap. Windows phone support is reportedly "coming soon".
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by mayank 16y ago
Not necessarily. Graduate programs, especially PhD programs, generally have many "older" students. I've seen PhD students in their 40s with several kids. But I'll agree that the requirement seems arbitrary without an explanation.
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Reload any browser window when a local file is modified [Ubuntu](compbio.cs.uic.edu)
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by mayank 16y ago
I once emailed Daniel Bernstein and received this fun reply before my email was let through: Professor Bernstein has asked me to reject all bulk mail messages. But I'm a rather primitive computer program, and I'm not sure whether your mess
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by mayank 16y ago
Some interesting optimizations in the changelog, like the -Ofast optimization switch that rolls up -O3 and other non-standards-compliant optimizations: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/changes.html And a switch to dump stack usage: A new switc
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by mayank 16y ago
Machine Learning had a special issue on machine learning and music in 2006, if you're interested: http://springerlink.metapress.com/content/p59760403721/?p=39... There's also a cool conference on bringing various kinds of technology and r
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by mayank 16y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about. With "invisible" JS form validation of any sort: 1. you run your existing spambot software through phantomjs. 2. your unmodified bot fills in all the visible fields without changing a single line of
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by mayank 16y ago
You can't do the same with captcha because that would require a degree of brute forcing. And my point was that existing spambots could trivially be upgraded to handle hidden form values and keystroke timers and other automated javascript
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by mayank 16y ago
This just encourages spambots to upgrade their technology. You could upgrade spambots quite easily by just running them inside a headless browser with full javascript support, like phantomjs. There is very little distinction between writing
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by mayank 16y ago
I haven't had cause to, but I would be afraid that if Twitter implements some sort of PageRank-style spam detection, my account would be sucked into the great cleanup if I'm following a lot of bots.
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by mayank 16y ago
In formal writing, the inserted word or phrase is supposed to be enclosed in square brackets to indicate that it is not the original source speaking: "he wanted to go to [the] circus". The slightly more obnoxious "sic" can be used when you
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by mayank 16y ago
> I had to read out of scrappy library copies of Byte and Compute magazine. There were hours of trial and error. Funny, I look back on the same experience fondly, except it was assembly on an 8088. The "a-ha" moments were exhiliratin
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by mayank 16y ago
Does anyone else feel a little uneasy about the "Twidium" tool mentioned in the article? They find auto-following bot accounts and follow them to boost your follower count. Sounds like typical dirty SEO that doesn't really create any value
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by mayank 16y ago
Thanks, and I'm hoping that part of flash works better than the video component on 64 bit linux.
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by mayank 16y ago
Interesting. How do you punch through NATs and firewalls? If you're doing it with p2p proxies, how do you do authentication and avoid mitm attacks?
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by mayank 16y ago
You can patent the process for creating superconducting materials: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=superconducting+patents&... Presumably, that's what is being release into the public domain.
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by mayank 16y ago
I get your point, but doesn't that seem a tad contrived?
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by mayank 16y ago
I'm not ruling out malice, but wouldn't you say that naivete would be a fairly unlikely reason for this at a place with a big enough bankroll? I've met some hedge fund types and they may be many things, but they're not idiots.
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by mayank 16y ago
No it does not. The linked article relies on a naive assumption about NLP and is devoid of any content. To substantiate: entity resolution [1] is a widely studied research area in NLP, and it's fair to say that researchers aren't as naive i
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by mayank 16y ago
It's not just that -- if the tail of the distribution doesn't seem to fit, you can just call it a "power-law with a cutoff", "exponential tail", "multiple scaling regimes", "piecewise linear" or some other cruft. Physicists, particularly, a
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by mayank 16y ago
Many, many things aren't a power law, but are widely reported to be due to sloppy statistics and a deep misunderstanding of regression on log-transformed data. The problem is this: people frequently log-transform empirical counts of thing
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by mayank 16y ago
> After cooling off, I realized that I was angry because I had just found remnants of the prejudice I thought was gone from startup circles. Why would you think this? You don't have to be particularly socially enlightened or progressi
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by mayank 16y ago
We are starting to use it to synchronize a photo identification database for wildlife conservation workers in Kenya: http://code.google.com/p/stripespotter It becomes a lot easier if you design your application with Dropbox integration in
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by mayank 16y ago
The linked notes on particle filtering are very interesting, thanks for sharing. You've just piqued my interest in Haskell.
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by mayank 16y ago
Agreed. I pointed out a comment from the original link and was hoping someone would run the iphone client and report on the results. Was quite surprised to see the story killed. Clickable: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322585
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Lock down an nginx setup: detailed walkthrough with extensive notes(calomel.org)
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by mayank 16y ago
The first comment on the page reads: > Holy crap, the iPhone version is worse! I just fired up my proxy and found it's transmitting both the metadata and the files via HTTP. Could anyone confirm? This would be a pretty serious flaw.
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by mayank 16y ago
They are indeed fascinating, and Erik Demaine's MIT OCW lecture on it is amazing [1]. The analogy between the NYC subway system (express and local trains) and skip lists is brilliant. [1] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-a

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