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by nickodell 7y ago
Assuming you discover child exploitation on Facebook, why would you report it to Facebook, rather than the police? The police can actually arrest people.
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by nickodell 7y ago
That's true, but Google has made no commitment to keep it that way.
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by nickodell 7y ago
>Sure, but I bet Andrej Karpathy's team is using SOTA and mitigates most of the issues like the ones you mentioned. Can you give an example of an image classification technique where classification failures are independent, or indep
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by nickodell 7y ago
>In perception you hit false positives/negatives all the time but appearance of the same issue on two-three consecutive frames goes to 0 pretty quickly. If the frames are all very similar, wouldn't the probability of failure be
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by nickodell 7y ago
Here's an interesting sentence from the complaint filed by Rothschild: >On information and belief, Defendant sells, offers to sell, and/or uses network storage systems and methods including, without limitation, the Gnome Shotwe
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by nickodell 7y ago
I don't agree. I just looked in my password manager, and I have roughly ~220 accounts across the web. If I want to go through that list and see which website rank well and which rank poorly, and I want to do that in under two hours, th
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by nickodell 7y ago
>You just have to change the onboarding process to include a fee, and offer an incentive/rebate of the subscription price to match the cost to basically make it free. That way if they decide to change their mind and not give their d
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by nickodell 7y ago
If it's a joke, or sarcastic, why is it in a document labeled "Plain English Terms of Service?" For that matter, why follow it up with "You've been warned?" >Has anyone ever seen them do anything like this?
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by nickodell 7y ago
EasyDNS's Plain English Terms of Service make them seem like a really unprofessional company: >We are NOT a DDoS Mitigation Service. [...] If you come on this system knowingly bringing a DDoS on your heels we shut down service (we
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by nickodell 7y ago
>China Telecom is a global transit provider. As a sibling commenter mentioned, the document doesn't show that traffic actually went to China, just that China Telecom was an available path -- even assuming traffic transited their net
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by nickodell 7y ago
>"the person performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business" is the tricky one, but I think it more has to do of what you explain your business to be. If you are running a SaaS platform and enter
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by nickodell 7y ago
>There should be laws to prevent companies from refusing to do business with "high maintenance" customers without proper documentation and regulation. Would requiring documentation significantly change what happened here? Suppo
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by nickodell 7y ago
>In 2016, biased search results generated by Google’s search algorithm likely impacted undecided voters in a way that gave at least 2.6 million votes to Hillary Clinton. This is the most important claim that he makes, and as far as I can
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by nickodell 7y ago
>I hate to be a downer, but nobody even knew about this space until it was mentioned here. Speak for yourself. :) >The rules of the modern Internet are "encrypt everything and trust nothing." The laws of ham radio are litera
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by nickodell 7y ago
It's more than just zero. Every number can be represented in multiple ways in DEC64. For example, you could represent 3 as 3 x 10^0 or 30 x 10^-1
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by nickodell 7y ago
If you have two rules like this: H -> O H -> 2O then the interpreter will pick one at random. It is possible to write entirely deterministic programs, but some programs are non-deterministic.
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by nickodell 7y ago
I don't think your solution works. Suppose N=20. Imagine the server and 19 of the voters are compromised, and are trying to de-anonymize your vote. It "randomly" creates a group composed of you and 19 voters that are collabor
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by nickodell 7y ago
>This is a crucial part of their process and any delays will impact their bottom line. If the government servers go down, JetBlue can fall back to checking paper boarding passes.
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by nickodell 7y ago
Am I supposed to see something here? https://i.imgur.com/WNBbIep.png
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by nickodell 8y ago
Yeah, it's pretty annoying. The Chrome extension "eKill" is a godsend. It makes websites like Medium readable. https://github.com/rhardih/ekill
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by nickodell 8y ago
Here's a second writeup, which also contains a response from pipdig: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/peculiar-php-present-...
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by nickodell 8y ago
>As computing the NullPointerException message proposed here is a considerable overhead, this would slow down throwing NullPointerExceptions. You could lower the overhead by not producing these messages if the exception is thrown frequen
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by nickodell 8y ago
Seems interesting, but unfortunately the leaf guide is empty. https://uucp.dataforge.tk/~uucp/wiki/index.php?n=Main.LeafNo...
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by nickodell 8y ago
>Volk One devices can connect to each other, from several miles away. Assuming that a voice call requires 8kbit/s of bandwidth, and assuming that you have about a watt of power, how feasible is it to connect through a phone that is
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by nickodell 8y ago
Amazon and Google do operate in several of the same markets. Amazon sells Kindle/Fire devices. Google sells Android phones. Amazon does product search. Google has a product search engine.
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by nickodell 8y ago
>For a snake less than 4ft long, like this one, hunters receive $50. Every additional foot in length earns them another $25. On top of that, they get the minimum wage –$8.25 an hour in Florida – for the time they spend on district land.
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by nickodell 8y ago
See Wikipedia: >In 24 U.S. states, employees who are working in a unionized shop may be required to contribute towards the cost of representation (such as at disciplinary hearings) if their fellow employees have negotiated a union securi
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Show HN: A C compiler for the LC3 architecture(github.com)
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by nickodell 8y ago
>involves building a whole new communication system. Did this require building a new communication system? Comcast has a similar injection system for reminding you to pay your bill, or to notify you that you've been accused of pirac
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by nickodell 8y ago
I get the impression that they did connect with yolo root access. >Although the ACIS application required access to only three databases within the Equifax environment to perform its business function, the ACIS application was not segmen

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