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by oakenshield 15y ago
I heard various DARPA PMs including Mudge Zatko speak yesterday at DC; looks like DARPA has finally realized that organized government money hoggers aren't doing squat to actually advance the state of the art in cyber defense. I found their
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by oakenshield 15y ago
I believe that follows from what he said above: > zero global state -- Make your library threads-aware, but not thread-safe! His point is that even if you have global state and try to protect that using locks, there may be code unknow
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by oakenshield 15y ago
Perfect. And the password will be shared over Google talk, I bet.
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by oakenshield 15y ago
It's best done at Google or at your email client. Anything elsewhere (e.g., at a browser) will suffer the same fate as FireGPG. I don't see Google ever doing it for Gmail -- normal people don't care about encrypting their emails, and Google
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by oakenshield 15y ago
Amazon recently announced their Virtual Private Clouds ( http://aws.amazon.com/vpc/ ) for enterprises that will not keep a customer on multi-tenant infrastructure if they wish otherwise. In any case, except for Google/Facebook-scale data an
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by oakenshield 15y ago
I fail to see the point of posts such as these. If you are using someone else's services and communicating without e2e encryption, you either do not care about being spied upon, or are willfully ignoring it. The problem isn't that G+ adds a
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by oakenshield 15y ago
Yet, it did not stop them from trying _really hard_, for example, with the Clipper chip and export restrictions on software that used crypto. Even now, foreigners who come to the US to work or study face extra scrutiny (whatever that means)
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by oakenshield 15y ago
Here is a pretty nice (and informative) article based on the research behind the Dual N-back game. http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=you-can-i...
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by oakenshield 16y ago
Knowing nothing more than what I've read in articles elsewhere, to someone who's not going to have a child immediately, these kits provide information that is of limited use. For example, they might tell you that you have a 10% higher chanc
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by oakenshield 16y ago
Those are people's opinions and should be treated as such. Here's an article with some research behind it: http://nymag.com/print/?/news/features/27840/
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by oakenshield 16y ago
Apart from one valid point (low attention span), this article reeks of confirmation bias. Certainly, if you google "cell phones and brain tumor" and go to the FUD sites, you will get enough fodder to peddle that viewpoint. Here's a reliable
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by oakenshield 16y ago
Who says you have to truncate? Split it into four 4 byte chunks and xor them.
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by oakenshield 16y ago
It's an abuse of the standard (c90 and c99). main is supposed to return int and take either no arg or two args, but I think a lot of legacy code violates this, so most compilers let you off with a warning. That said, "-Wall -Werror" are two
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by oakenshield 16y ago
IMO, Android isn't generally applicable. The reason Android works is because you have a (fairly) limited set of devices with more or less the same hardware and capabilities (e.g., touchscreen, GPS, radios, gyroscope etc.) So application wri
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by oakenshield 16y ago
They speak about bunch of (seemingly) toy OSes but do not mention Plan 9? It's a well-designed OS that takes the UNIX "everything is a file" abstraction to its logical conclusion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
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by oakenshield 16y ago
Very interesting; thanks. I had only taken a cursory look at the KDD cup page. I didn't know the dataset was crippled, because I doubt the netflix attack would work with music.. there's no IMDB for music that acts as an independent dataset.
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by oakenshield 16y ago
But then he mentioned the SUNDR system which addresses storing data on untrusted (not unreliable) servers, which confused me.
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by oakenshield 16y ago
> I also think you miss the point of academic papers. The goal is not to build a product, but rather to understand algorithms. I actually don't, being a researcher myself (not in ML, but in a field that uses a lot of it). I'm just sayi
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by oakenshield 16y ago
Yes, I worked on quite a few boosting / bagging / random forests classifiers. The key thing I learned, though, was that it wasn't possible to take the _entire_ dataset for some problem, throw even an ensemble method at it, and expect high d
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by oakenshield 16y ago
I don't quite understand what you're trying to get at. Are you saying that cloud providers should provide you some sort of insured access to data in case something catastrophic happens, or are you saying that you should be able to store enc
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by oakenshield 16y ago
> I get pitched regularly by startups doing “generic machine learning” which is, in all honesty, a pretty ridiculous idea. Learned this the hard way. As an academic who used to think you could solve a problem (e.g., spam filtering) usin
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by oakenshield 16y ago
The things I think Last.fm has going for them: * Charts (of course) * Recommendations: I use last.fm for two kinds of recommendations: (1) where it uses listener history to figure out similar bands and albums, which in some ways is inferior
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by oakenshield 16y ago
I disagree about middle-click being a "poor" method. Middle-clicking is essential to mouse-based browsing these days, both for opening links in a new tab and for closing tabs. With middle-click, the whole issue of close button placement bec
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by oakenshield 16y ago
Care to enlighten us the exact APIs you consider archaic? "Unix/C APIs" isn't exactly precise --- there are the POSIX APIs which are fairly standard that Linux and the BSDs mostly support; in addition, there are the platform-specific APIs t
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by oakenshield 16y ago
Productivity tip: do not put on the "Rumble of Wheels" track and start watching one of those 30 minute videos.
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by oakenshield 16y ago
With nearly every country that Assange has ties with being pressured by the US and other mighty powers affected by Wikileaks, do you think the real truth would come out? Justice departments and public prosecutors are run by the state, after
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by oakenshield 16y ago
I hope they get inundated by "information" about this criminal. Here, look, he gave an interview to Forbes just yesterday. http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/11/29/an-intervie...
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by oakenshield 16y ago
They do great work in many areas, but the best ones (IMHO, as a systems guy) are the systems papers. In non-systems areas, folks from universities could conceivably do the same research, but for OS/Distributed systems, Google research is th
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by oakenshield 16y ago
Their programming languages will be frighteningly similar to Javascript: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mendhak/2643251456/
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by oakenshield 16y ago
I remember back in a Paradigms of Programming class in uni, our professor who lived by Dijkstra's "Gotos considered harmful" mantra tried to get us all to write programs with a single exit point from each function. I argued that short-circu

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