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by xfs 8y ago
In a theoretical sense this is essentially how Google works. See Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2594754
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by xfs 8y ago
This is a recent technique for censorship circumvention called "domain fronting." See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_fronting for details. Essentially when implementing encrypted channels with TLS, the
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by xfs 8y ago
Yet wisdom of the crowd becomes a successful machine learning paradigm as ensemble learning where a family of weak learners are combined to produce a stronger learner.
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by xfs 9y ago
> the law was pretty explicit that Chinese citizens can't fly under their passport This is false. There were rumors in May 2017 that some airports in China started to reject passports for Chinese citizens per some new internal regul
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by xfs 9y ago
Google themselves have done the same thing https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/27/google_routing_blun... . But as we all know, NSA does store all traffic for future analysis. A BGP leak from China or Russia,
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by xfs 9y ago
> 7. Build — Local References struct node* BuildWithLocalRef() { struct node* head = NULL; struct node** lastPtrRef= &head; // Start out pointing to the head pointer int i; for (i=1; i<6; i+
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by xfs 9y ago
If IPFS is not entirely stateless the protocol to set up the state will always have identifiable information, like how TLS is easily blocked in the same way. Also, a protocol-agnostic approach is traffic analysis with machine learning (this
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by xfs 9y ago
I think it's a recent phenomenon and not related to rendering of ads. I use Chrome and it's quite common, but not always. I would turn up the developer console and find thousands of errors and warnings when I notice the tab icon k
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by xfs 9y ago
> Mechanics that straight-up give you the illusion of their existence are some of my very favorites because they reveal, more than anything else, how much we want to be fooled, and how little it matters what is real and what simply feels
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by xfs 9y ago
I think what I implied was it will be done by entities without moral considerations, such as capitals and governments. In this sense it's not very productive to censor individual researchers from publicizing these kind of findings. Tec
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by xfs 9y ago
If the paper does what it says it's telling user reported labels. The problem isn't the presence of software producing likelihoods of someone being gay. The problem is people interpreting the results in a reductionist way and redu
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by xfs 9y ago
Do you think the authors of the paper are the first to think of this idea of detecting personal traits with facial features? How much cost do you think it takes for implementing detection with this particular set of features? If it can be d
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by xfs 9y ago
So no more Google Inc.?
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by xfs 9y ago
Enterprise customers care much more about stability than features. Backporting features is always easy, if you consider the amount of work needed to have enterprise level guarantee on their quality. Weeding out bugs in features is much, muc
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by xfs 9y ago
Using `cat` is wasteful in scripts but not in command line. It separates filenames, which are often actually glob patterns taking some time to confirm, from the parameters, which also often take some time to look up in the manual. `cat` and
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by xfs 9y ago
It had been my hypothesis. Julian Assange said it better: > The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to
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by xfs 9y ago
Far superior to state run propaganda as to what? Far superior for manufacturing consent? Sure. The western system of propaganda is far more competitive, innovative, or you can call it distributed in the way it hides its agenda in a network
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by xfs 10y ago
This is really good. Deep learning right now is giving off a kind of illusion of domain-independent general intelligence that can solve any problem, so it would be really helpful to have some theoretical characterization of the specific pro
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by xfs 10y ago
TRI's association with UMich and MIT makes them more biased towards issues about the difficulty of running self-driving cars in adverse weather conditions because that's the problem that all the researchers at UMich and MIT have h
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by xfs 10y ago
> none of us in the automobile or IT industries are close to achieving true Level 5 autonomy - Gill Pratt, Toyota Research Institute http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self... > It will
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by xfs 10y ago
I'm not quite sure what's going on with this website as it is flooded with ads. http://i.imgur.com/R6ICEgA.png I've been quite tolerant of ads myself without using an ad blocker for a long time but recently t
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by xfs 10y ago
The title was editorialized. TLS 1.3 is a working draft and Chromium is just doing field trial with it. A few days ago there were other issues with this causing Chromium to stop working on *.google.com so it's not just about middle-box
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by xfs 10y ago
Actually you can't. There is no prior information about the distribution of correct answers given in the question so everything is uniform distribution and there is nothing to set up "pre-arranged" entropy encoding with.
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by xfs 10y ago
Solvable by basic information analysis > answer at least N out of the 23 questions correctly This represents S(N) = \sum_{i=N}^23 \binom{23}{i} acceptable states of correct answers out of 2^23 all possible states, which requires -log_2(S
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by xfs 10y ago
This is quite misleading. Can you use the Volkswagen trademark like this?
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by xfs 10y ago
1. Privacy 2. Google doesn't have the same incentive to release data to local governments as Uber does (to improve regulatory relationships).
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by xfs 11y ago
The authors of the paper have their own website providing similar service http://deepart.io/page/about/ (which claims a patent over this, unfortunately).
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by xfs 11y ago
It is now http://people.ntp.org/burnicki/leap-second-2015-06-30/time1....
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by xfs 11y ago
The search patterns don't usually align at byte boundary.
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by xfs 12y ago
Google's response: no action for 94 sites, mysql.com link is taken down: https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright...

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