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by mayank 16y ago
On the contrary, within a few days of the Netflix prize challenge being launched, a guy put up a detailed blog post with a simple linear algebra method that could beat Netflix's system at the time (link below). It didn't come anywhere near
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by mayank 16y ago
You're right about the "when you have a hammer" issue. The biggest problem with genetic algorithms is that there's rarely a good reason for using them for cookie-cutter combinatorial optimization like the problem, when there are hundreds of
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by mayank 16y ago
The second problem seems open-ended and a test of UX/creativity skills: "There is no objectively 'right' answer here, and in fact there may be multiple ways to interpret a provided list of file events." The third problem is not zero-sum, it
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by mayank 16y ago
it doesn't matter -- in putty, forward your choice of ports (I use 9853 randomly), make sure the type of forwarding in putty is set to "dynamic", and set firefox to use localhost and that port as a socks proxy. works well for skype as well,
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by mayank 16y ago
Netflix doesn't use Flash Player, so you can use the "watch instantly" feature anywhere in the world with a simple SSH proxy (Putty+Firefox works nicely for me when I'm traveling).
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by mayank 16y ago
I think he meant in terms of traffic and popularity. If you're measuring hardware, "large" is so very relative. Someone's going to beat you with a bigger stick, unless you're the NSA.
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by mayank 16y ago
I always imagined philosophy as the study of things beyond the realm of science. By saying that its the study of things science hasn't yet solved, you're saying that philosophy is speculation about things that science will possibly solve,
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by mayank 16y ago
I was referencing that essay in my comment.
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by mayank 16y ago
In response to your comment and the (well articulated, btw) parent, the problem I have/had is in this part: "when something has been solved by science, philosophers stop worrying about that realm so much " The "so much" part was what troub
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by mayank 16y ago
Caveat: this is an anecdote, and your mileage may vary, but I think it illustrates a point of contention in the "two cultures". As a computer science major in the US, I once took a "philosophy of mind" course out of a genuine multi-faceted
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by mayank 16y ago
But an unlikely one. Like all privacy "outrage" when it comes to Facebook, this might follow a predictable cycle -- firestorm in the news, some minor concession by Facebook, and eventually no one even remembers the issue down the line.
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by mayank 16y ago
There's no way that they can implement thorough manual curation at the scale Facebook is at. Even better, as the parent suggested, use positive words to avoid any automated sentiment analysis: Starbucks makes my colon sing!
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by mayank 16y ago
For those browsing, it's well worth the read. Their positioning as an alternative to the groupon model is very interesting. I wonder if they think they can match the same scale though, even if it's just for restaurants. Overall, great idea!
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by mayank 16y ago
> but I somehow doubt Zuck is logging on to his fan (not personal) page from cafes with unencrypted wireless. He'd just have to be logged in, not specifically accessing his fan page, and there's a nice Starbucks near the Facebook campus
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by mayank 16y ago
I genuinely wish you the best of luck, and hope that your decision to use Facebook doesn't have repercussions down the line. And your point about Haystack is well taken -- from what I remember reading, it was more hype than security softwar
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by mayank 16y ago
I wouldn't rule out some guy following Zuck around Palo Alto with airtools and hijacking cookies.
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by mayank 16y ago
Very interesting -- I wonder if this is the result of having so many API access points. The documentation page lists FBML+FQL, Graph, "Old Rest API", and "Old Javascript Client Library" as options: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/ Or
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by mayank 16y ago
You can generally post a user-generated version of your article for personal use on your personal server, not their typeset version. That usually means putting up the version that you submitted (in the generic Latex template), rather than
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by mayank 16y ago
I'd imagine posting on HN asking for an SSL secured server and forum/SN hosting for activists would find at least a few takers.
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by mayank 16y ago
> tens of thousands of people are putting their lives on the line by going out in the streets where police are firing live ammunition -- over 60 have died in the protests. by those standards posting something on their Facebook profiles
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by mayank 16y ago
> Put yourself in the shoes of an activist in Tunisia or elsewhere. You want to reach friends, acquaintances, and neighbors. Certainly, but you don't necessarily want to have that contact list easily available to anyone armed with a Jav
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by mayank 16y ago
I don't claim to know anything about their interests, but I'm fairly certain that hosting political dissent of any sort on Facebook is not in anyone's interest (well, except the authorities and the people you're um...dissenting against). Wh
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by mayank 16y ago
Perhaps access to the NYT or other American news sources (or even HN?) is difficult in Tunisia, but what exactly gave a dissident political group the idea of hosting a "group" page on Facebook? Did it seem like a good idea because IPs get l
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by mayank 16y ago
So this is where I've been submitting my papers to...
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by mayank 16y ago
At least some aspects of NoSQL are novel from an algorithmic perspective, so it's unfair to dismiss it as a buzzword. The underlying gossiping protocols that enable no single point of failure are fairly recent developments (Chord is a recen
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by mayank 16y ago
Would you mind if I ask why? I'm honestly curious about whether you guys either (a) have a competitive advantage over the likes of Groupon (and Google too, apparently, after today), or (b) with the $6 billion offer, just want to get a slice
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by mayank 16y ago
> which will hopefully be a 8-page document regarding how, unlike in plain English, "x or y" in logic is still true if x and y. Well it would sound pretty stupid to say "x XOR y" in regular conversation, which is what is usually meant.
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by mayank 16y ago
> You mean, besides recommending CTR but not telling his audience about nonce collisions and counter wraps? Oooh low blow! Point taken, but I think he did a pretty good job for 55 minutes. If someone decides to hand-roll AES-CTR, I'd sa
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by mayank 16y ago
Just curious -- is there anything in particular that stood out? Other than the inherent troubles with implementing crypto, was there anything theoretically questionable with any of the talk's content?
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by mayank 16y ago
Somehow 'marketing' instead of 'greed' takes away all the Michael Douglas punch.

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