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by mcphilip 13y ago
Thanks for this. I am not up to date on what is considered privacy information, apparently.
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I read this as GoDaddy releasing her email address only. In theory, isn't an email address only personally identifiable if the address owner has done some action linking it to a real world identity? I assume that's the argument
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Was the article changed since you read it? The first three paragraphs make it clear that this is an attempted reconstruction of events and clarifications/corrections/ are requested. >Ever since the "Heartbleed" flaw
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Once you're a front runner in a given market sector, it's often more efficient to buy up smaller companies to gain valuable intellectual property and future revenue streams than it is to rely solely on inhouse R&D. These type
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Drug culture reference: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)
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by mcphilip 13y ago
FTA: >Step 3: Think locally and globally--all at once >[...] Completely delusional futurist zealotry attempting to solve all problems at once, from what I gather.
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Hex (Discworld)(en.m.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mcphilip 13y ago|0 comments
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Absolutely explosive if proven true, should be interesting to follow this story.
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CME gave high-frequency traders peek, lawsuit claims(m.futuresmag.com)
4 points by mcphilip 13y ago|2 comments
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Reading about this disorder reminds me of my sister. She has Down's Syndrome and is one of my favorite people in the world. She has basically the same strengths and weaknesses as WS -- open and friendly when not anxious, but unable t
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Good catch. My reading comprehension isn't up to par today, apparently.
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by mcphilip 13y ago
> UPDATE: Rumors are going around that the writer of the article was fired from his Polaris/Maker gig. Technically he was a contractor and not an employee of Polaris. He didn't get fired (you can't outright fire contracto
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Fair enough. I'll admit my speculation is about as useless as hypothesizing Rescola was somehow manipulated by the NSA into putting his name on the extended random paper.
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by mcphilip 13y ago
There are some real gems in that LAT piece that Greenwald labels as propaganda[1]: >What the Church and Pike committees found" nearly 40 years ago was "that people were doing things that were wrong. That's not happening h
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Well there's at least one other document coauthored by M Salter and E Rescorla [1], so the notion that Rescorla was manipulated into co-authoring the Extended Random paper has is a bit more problematic since it wasn't a one-off co
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by mcphilip 13y ago
One of the authors of that duealec paper had this to say [1]: >Our results <dualec.org> say nothing about whether NIST, the NSA, or anyone else inserted a backdoor into dual ec. Instead, they say that if you know the relationship b
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I started on something similar as a side project[1]. I decided to build a dataset from the AFI Top 100 Films list and persist it in neo4j. The goal was to find interesting questions to answer with this dataset that couldn't easily be
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by mcphilip 13y ago
This post was an entry in the Winter 2013 Neo4j GraphGist Contest. The author of this submission also has a blog post about doing k-NN in R [1]. In other words, this GraphGist is an example of how you could do basic ML in neo4j, but it&#x
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Movie Recommendations with k-Nearest Neighbors and Cosine Similarity(gist.neo4j.org)
139 points by mcphilip 13y ago|23 comments
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I submitted this story. There's no particular reason why it should have been front page material -- just the time of day it was submitted and the provocative title helped, I guess. I found it interesting and am a longform journalism f
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by mcphilip 13y ago
FYI, this was a recent submission to longform.org. If you like longform journalism on a wide variety of topics, that site is highly recommended.
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The Town That Turned Poverty Into a Prison Sentence(thenation.com)
91 points by mcphilip 13y ago|52 comments
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by mcphilip 13y ago
FYI, when I see VIX, I think of the volatility index. A quick google search shows this is overwhelmingly the case. A name change to something more distinct could help with exposure. Good luck!
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by mcphilip 13y ago
No, the correct response is to help in an appropriate way, assisting until emergency response arrives, and then walk away.
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I've witnessed two horrific wrecks and been a witness for the cops one of those times. There's a time and a place for projecting your importance as an individual, but assisting someone else in an accident is not one such time. D
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by mcphilip 13y ago
The FB acquisition seems to imply that the deeply talented Oculus team will help pioneer VR as a new mechanism for social interactions online. Call me a simpleton, but I'm more interested in Carmack et al revolutionizing gaming. Mayb
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by mcphilip 13y ago
In theory, the oculus team will have more resources at their disposal. However, they are now apart of a publicly traded company with an emphasis on meeting investors' expectations on a quarterly basis. Also, new layers of oversight w
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by mcphilip 13y ago
So only selling covered calls are allowed, in other words?
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by mcphilip 13y ago
It's not just "US Journalists Against Transparency” up in arms about this release, apparently popular opinion is mixed too, as evidenced by the reddit comment section on the NYT article submission [1]. This firstlook.org article
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Fair enough, that specific statement could indicate a social stigma unrelated to gender. It was, however, common to encounter plenty of skepticism that nursing was a proper profession for a male.

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