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by rm999 14y ago
>When a critical hole is discovered in a system that manages the identity of the 400M wealthiest people on Earth, I'd expect this story to be ranking a little higher than page three on HN. Apple has disabled password reset, so at least
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by rm999 14y ago
Look at my original comment that started this subthread. If it's a derivative work (which it seems to be) Google owns the copyright to OP's image.
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by rm999 14y ago
It's an implicit form of negative advertising, which is rarely noble or "gentlemanly". I think most people would be disgusted if a politician started running ads about how healthy he is when his opponent is in the hospital. This situation i
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by rm999 14y ago
Don't you need a copyright to license it?
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by rm999 14y ago
From wikipedia: >For copyright protection to attach to a later, allegedly derivative work, it must display some originality of its own. It cannot be a rote, uncreative variation on the earlier, underlying work. The latter work must cont
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by rm999 14y ago
The Onion does a really good series called "Onion Talks" that satirizes the vapidness of TED talks. They also capture the audiences' "inspired" reactions pretty well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tom6_ceTu9s
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by rm999 14y ago
I believe this is the joke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem >In computability theory, the halting problem ... is equivalent to the problem of deciding, given a program and an input, whether the program will eventually hal
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by rm999 14y ago
Technology should 'just work' or err on the side of not inconveniencing people. There's no reason a design error (what do you mean the towers are built to keep that in mind?) should affect customers in their own homes. Not only do most peop
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by rm999 14y ago
It's interesting to read his opinion on sleep. tldr: most people sleep too much because they don't have enough to do, and most people would be healthier if they slept less. I'm curious what has changed, I've heard you should sleep as much a
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by rm999 14y ago
>the difference between a machine with or without OS would be 10-15 dollars This used to be true, but microsoft upped the oem price of windows quite a bit since Windows 7. The estimates I've heard are closer to 50-70 dollars. This artic
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by rm999 14y ago
A lot. I work with large amounts of data so relatively minor changes in algorithmic complexity can determine if a method is practical or not. Recently I found a great new dataset but it didn't work well with our database - the naive method
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by rm999 14y ago
>The craziest set of downvotes I've ever seen on a comment of mine are here Haha, it didn't take very long to make that into your profile. I'm sorry you are getting downvoted and I upvoted you to make up for it, but I would strongly adv
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by rm999 14y ago
You missed the point of my comment. I was speaking about the hype, I wasn't putting down deep networks or making a technical analysis of the algorithms. Anyway, here are my major reservations, including my technical analysis. You're oddly d
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by rm999 14y ago
I do agree that a reference call can be very valuable, but up to 15 minute calls? When you call a reference you are essentially making someone do a favor for someone else, which is fine because the candidate asked for that favor. But I also
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by rm999 14y ago
>of course "not used in industry" is not a technical argument. With Google just yesterday hiring George Hinton Again, you're quoting me on that. Yes, 'not used much in data science' is a valid argument that it's not one of the biggest b
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by rm999 14y ago
>not used in industry Well, that ones about me. Yes, I have a plenty of experience in machine learning, including undergraduate research in neural networks, a graduate degree in machine learning, and more than five years of industry exp
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by rm999 14y ago
I'd be concerned about complaint spam, which could quickly devalue a system like that. A small number of legitimate complaints (like in this story) could be drowned out by thousands of pointless/fake complaints. See, for example, this story
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by rm999 14y ago
I kind of got them to say it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4655927 BTW, I'm a big fan of the data analysis that came out of okcupid, is that all your work?
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by rm999 14y ago
>I was around for the prior round of neural network excitement and much time, effort and money was wasted. In that case it turned out that other techniques were more tractable and thus easier to use and improve upon. And before 1980s st
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by rm999 14y ago
I'm concerned deep networks are being overhyped. They're certainly exciting, but they haven't seen much use in industry yet; it's too early to make claims about how they have impacted data science. Also, data science involves a lot more tha
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by rm999 14y ago
I'd argue we hit the tipping point more than ten years ago. Finance and a lot of tech (e.g. google) had already been transformed by machine learning at that point. At my last job we were working with some pretty complex neural network model
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by rm999 14y ago
I assume the phone would be the hardware key and the fingerprint would be an additional security measure because people are more likely to lose/misplace their phones.
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by rm999 14y ago
Meanwhile it's rumored apple may add a fingerprint scanner to iphones. Wouldn't this be at least as effective without requiring additional jewelry? http://appadvice.com/appnn/2013/03/report-the-iphone-5s-will...
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by rm999 14y ago
The underlying issue with inequality isn't that some people are rich (although many progressives fall into the trap of making it about this), it's about how to alleviate the unfortunate fact that some people will always be poor because they
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by rm999 14y ago
I think that misses the point, and the article discusses why. It's not about what Harvard could do; it's about standard protocol for treating faculty, and it's about trust. In the academic world faculty are usually treated with incredible
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by rm999 14y ago
Not what I assumed: >This particular defamation case was not related to Moore's revenge porn activities I'm more curious how the cases involving his revenge porn sites will go.
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by rm999 14y ago
I can't tell if this article is supposed to be sarcastic or tongue-in-cheek. I actually think it's part of a worrying pattern from nytimes to be idiotically controversial, perhaps to increase readership and link shares. Anyway, I'll assume
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by rm999 14y ago
It's pretty safe to assume most large companies pay very low/zero corporate taxes. Saying that this giveaway will make EA more profitable is misleading. Oddly enough, according to EA's financial statements their income after tax has been hi
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by rm999 14y ago
Penny Arcade and at least a couple other reviewers anticipated this: >My recommendation? Don’t preorder or buy the game unless you’d be fine with non-functioning servers tomorrow. If that sort of thing would make you angry, hold off unt
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by rm999 14y ago
The meat of the article is: > the fact that there are 234,000 unrecorded deaths in the Japanese population means the often-touted life-expectancy figure of 82 years for Japan now has to be considered suspect Not sure how you can argue

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