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by surferbayarea 8y ago
So why the outcry against Russian interference? Double standards?
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by surferbayarea 8y ago
The next shock that Silicon Valley and US government will face in the near future is when the next social media monopoly or communication service is from a Chinese owned company. Imagine if wechat had won the messaging war vs whatsapp. This
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by surferbayarea 8y ago
"attract the talent"...this is no longer the case. I talk to 50+ (new) senior engineers/month (for the past 6 years) and there has been a serious mind shift in the last couple years. I now hear things like "hasn't i
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by surferbayarea 8y ago
Well tiktok is not for sale.
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by surferbayarea 8y ago
Self hosted email, chat, messaging, calls is the future. Individuals will own host and run their own services for these on public clouds. There is no reason for giant corporations to own these services.
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by surferbayarea 9y ago
Hard to believe that Facebook did not know about this? I imagine there are small account-management teams within facebook for large clients spending millions.
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by surferbayarea 9y ago
You don't care, doesn't mean you SHOULD not care. Public apathy from smart people was probably behind what happened in 1930s Germany.
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by surferbayarea 9y ago
Wait till there is a REAL data leak. Just your facebook profile data is 1% of the data they have about you. Using the cookies they have all over the internet as well as partnerships with offline pos transaction systems, they know almost any
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by surferbayarea 9y ago
How many product managers do they have? 50?
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by surferbayarea 9y ago
Yeah I have been waiting for green card for 15 years. US Masters degree in CS from top-10 university, 6 publications, 100+ citations. Senior staff engineer in top valley company for 6 years, got multiple awards/always top performer. Th
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by surferbayarea 9y ago
Yeah it's different non intersecting sets. Also, if you add all the jobs created by companies started by H1bs, it's definitely more than a million.
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by surferbayarea 9y ago
Got it. So if you were given the job to fix US unemployment of 6.6 million(likely more since this is just reported numbers), you would begin by focusing on the 1% bucket and then continue to refine the solution within that bucket.
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by surferbayarea 9y ago
https://a16z.com/2014/09/05/why-amazon-has-no-profits-and-wh...
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by surferbayarea 9y ago
Perfect. The best case outcome for your proposed solution is a reduction of 1% in US unemployment rate. (65k H1b/year vs 6.6million unemployed in the US)
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by surferbayarea 9y ago
And xenophobia is ok - it is a deep human flaw and an artifact of evolution and resource constraints. As smart logical people we should be conscious of our xenophobic biases. Not being aware of that is what leads to things like 1930s German
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by surferbayarea 9y ago
Also the total number of unemployed people in US is 6.6 million. The number of H1b visas granted every year is 65000 (that's 2 orders of magnitude). If you were put in charge of solving the unemployment problem of USA, would you focus
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by surferbayarea 9y ago
In that case the solution would have been simple - just ban the top-10 in this list that are in consulting: https://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2017-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.asp... Unfortunately, this is a political issue. Eq t
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by surferbayarea 9y ago
won't you want to factor by cost of living/geography/state taxes etc? 100k in Austin is very different from 100k in SF. It is quite hard to come up with an actual mathematical formula that can be used. I can sympathize with t
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by surferbayarea 9y ago
Companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple have thousands of job openings and are desperate to hire more talent. They will happily interview anyone(from US, India, China, heck Syria) if the person is qualified. So this is just xenophobia(surpr
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by surferbayarea 9y ago
They should at least give an option in settings. What is the algorithm for slowdown? Is it guaranteed to be fixed on replacing the battery or its just a linear decay function based on age of phone.
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by surferbayarea 9y ago
Hopefully a step in the direction towards cleaning the internet from the blotch of online ads. Make the internet a place to learn again and an open platform where people and businesses can exchange ideas(and data), not the silo'ed shor
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by surferbayarea 9y ago
US leads the world in per capita emissions. And people on the coasts(ny/sf) are the worst offenders. Guess who will history hold responsible.
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by surferbayarea 10y ago
Has anyone applied deep learning to the problem of identifying advertisement blocks in a web page?
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by surferbayarea 10y ago
Seems it does include US citizens. Per " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveilla... : "and "agents of foreign powers" (which may include American citizens and permanent residents
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by surferbayarea 10y ago
sure - that was not the intention. Fixed. I care deeply about user data privacy and how we have traded privacy(and user experience) for free software. Maybe recent events will change the trade-offs.
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by surferbayarea 10y ago
Sure - might not be easy for email. It does work for imessages (no server storage, typical size 1-5GB, stored + indexed on client side). So once phones start having 50GB+ storage(wait my iphone already does :p), its not so far fetched to th
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by surferbayarea 10y ago
FISA Content requests: July to December 2015 21000–21499. Note - FISA requests includes all personal information, NSL does not. And sure - this particular order is about foreigners' data, but they might require citizens' data in f
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by surferbayarea 10y ago
The inverted index could simply be built/live on client side. The cloud is then just a backup data storage. Encrypted email is downloaded, unencrypted and indexed on your laptop/phone etc.
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by surferbayarea 10y ago
search-ability is not a constraint for encryption. Eq see https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dawnsong/papers/se.pdf
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by surferbayarea 10y ago
https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/c... https://govtrequests.facebook.com/country/United%20States/20... ~60,000 google user accounts(not just email, but all your

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