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by sjbase 9y ago
Seems easy to defeat with frequency bounds checks. But presumably there exist adversarial sounds that to a human seem like music, or gibberish, or a different phrase, but sound like "pay joe 1000 dollars" to the machine. The sonic
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by sjbase 9y ago
Cool stuff! Question from your FAQ: > Q: Will I be able to copy another person's voice? > A: Yes but only if you have the authorization of the person whose voice is being copied. Perhaps you can unpack that answer a bit? What&#x2
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by sjbase 9y ago
> "There’s no way people are not exploiting this in the wild" Hard to disagree there. Does it really usually take 2 months for something like this to get disclosed? Seems like anyone bored enough to run a SYN scan on one of the
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by sjbase 9y ago
I think your top comment is being interpreted as "not responsible enough to use [any form of psilocybin]" - that's how I read it until I saw this comment, which makes me think you were actually referring to dosage safety and
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by sjbase 9y ago
It seems unlikely that he was brought in to take Expedia public, since he joined 6 years after their IPO. Expedia went public in 1999 [1], when Dara Khosrowshahi was working for an Expedia competitor: IAC. He didn't join Expedia until
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by sjbase 9y ago
This would be perfect for Letters of Note, a blog I _highly_ recommend: http://www.lettersofnote.com/ (I have no affiliation with the site)
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by sjbase 9y ago
This type of headline is why large enterprises are often careful about working with unproven 3rd parties. And consequently why the enterprise sales cycle feels so slow and bureaucratic. LockState makes the mistake, and AirBnB takes collater
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by sjbase 9y ago
This was my thought as well, and what I was referring to re: "so many observations on each username" in the parent. The reason this seems unlikely to me is mainly rate limits and password lockouts. Plus you're adding a multip
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by sjbase 9y ago
Typical network jitter is in the range of +/- 10ms over the Internet, optimistically. So the hash computation needs to be well over 10ms to be noticeable, or you need so many observations on each username that something emerges statist
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by sjbase 9y ago
I once saw the claim: for any headline ending in a question mark, the answer is always "we don't know." I have never found a counterexample.
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by sjbase 9y ago
Is NLP almost at human-level accuracy in picking up on subtext? Can it formulate a human-level response to sarcasm? Could it respond in kind? Does it know when a question is rhetorical? :)
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by sjbase 9y ago
Has anyone here done a migration from S3 to Wasabi, and successfully realized the lower total cost Wasabi is claiming?
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by sjbase 9y ago
I suppose the "Here's the MD5 for your download" concept is useful if the file is being served from a different host than the website itself. Someone could tamper with the file server, but may not have access to the HTML rend
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by sjbase 9y ago
Makes it much harder to raise future financing, which is bad for everyone. A company who has given away equity with anti-dilution is much less attractive for a new investor. If 30% of the company is allocated on anti-dilution, that means ev
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by sjbase 9y ago
Does anyone know: what are the failure rates like for the gene editing technology being used for this? Thinking like a software engineer, are there transposition errors (GATC --> GTAC) , atomicity issues (GATC --> GA)? Mutations after
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by sjbase 9y ago
Can anyone weigh in via personal experience: how much Chinese would I need to learn to avoid getting pigeonholed to tourist areas in these cities? Is Mandarin spoken pretty uniformly? I'd love to go, and have used google translate exte
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by sjbase 9y ago
Jon's post notes that this is the industry standard. Anecdotal, but my experience matches that claim (last data point being end of 2016). I've never encountered any compelling rationale as to why/how that standard emerged.
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by sjbase 9y ago
Worth pointing out that tech stocks are down heavily in June, esp. consumer tech [1]. Some portion of this decline is unrelated to investor confidence in Snapchat relative to FB etc. [1]: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06&#x2
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by sjbase 9y ago
Super cool idea, but there's a ton of potential for misunderstanding. Example: User: "I want {A}." Winning developer: builds {a} User: "This is useless to me. I wanted {A}, not {a}" Developer: "But you never sa
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by sjbase 9y ago
Link to the report itself: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3863782/The-Holde...
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by sjbase 9y ago
This is a great example of one of those investments that might feel like a waste, until it suddenly REALLY isn't. I wish I had this video during my infosec & HA consulting days.
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CME patents derivative contract for cryptocurrency mining risk(appft.uspto.gov)
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by sjbase 9y ago
It's worth noting this was published in 2000. Interesting read though, I especially like "Failure free operations require experience with failure" <-- obvious, but easy to lose sight of.
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by sjbase 10y ago
>Outfit ordinary shipping containers You could also drop one of these into any cargo ship, and have clandestine weapons systems at any major port in the world. I'm guessing this violates volumes worth of international maritime law&#
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by sjbase 10y ago
Fantastic novel that'll continue aging well I think, esp. if we get more serious about putting civilians on Mars.
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by sjbase 10y ago
I have to confess I didn't see the link to the whitepaper in my first read through - shame on me for commenting before I did :) I think you all did a pretty good job putting this together overall after reading through it, and I applaud
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by sjbase 10y ago
This all seems likely to be true, but the source being Duck Duck Go calls the results & methodology into question. I'd love to see an independent researcher confirm these findings.
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by sjbase 10y ago
It's always hard to believe a second-hand story on the Internet, but suspending skepticism for a moment: kudos to the guy for telling this. There's easily enough information in there to be identified by the agents he spoke to. He&
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by sjbase 10y ago
I think you're wildly broadening my point to a blanket defense of US military action. That's not remotely what I'm saying. In fact I tend to agree that there's a lot of validity to the whistleblowing of the past decade,
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by sjbase 10y ago
I'm not a military guy, but was surprised that the weapons-free, kill-anything-that-moves zone described in the article could exist in today's warfare. Turns out it kindof doesn't. After some quick reading, [1] a "kill b

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