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by zawerf 8y ago
She worded that way too diplomatically. What google did here is one of the evilest things you can do. They are taking open research and trying to close it off. Research that they didn't even contribute to! Research that they didn'
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by zawerf 8y ago
Is “Wolf Children” an accurate portrayal of what it will be like to renovate one of these houses? (minus the wolves)
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by zawerf 8y ago
There were two large-ish stories about domain registrars around two months back which triggered some side discussions about various registrars and their pros and cons if you dig a bit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18
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by zawerf 8y ago
It's "very simple" that you will also "get absolutely no guarantee of security" unless you personally rewrite every line of code you use in a provable/verifiable language, design and manufacture your own hardwa
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by zawerf 8y ago
Code search might be the killer feature here. I used to work at google many eons ago and I spend 90% of my day wading through billions LOCs with their internal code search tool. I believe it's the same one used by chromium: https:&#x2
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by zawerf 8y ago
Not really asking for perfect/decidable. Just wondering out loud on how to detect even one of the other active exploits that are surely in the wild. This one was live for 3-4 months before it got found by luck? For example I would real
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by zawerf 8y ago
Anyone know how this was found and whether that process can be automated? There are likely a lot more packages that are infected with the same technique. I looked at the linked commits: https://github.com/dominictarr/ev
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by zawerf 8y ago
If the nsfw images were from google search (or are images that could easily be indexed by google), it's not surprising that google is performing well on them. Presumably any low confidence images would've been manually tagged and
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by zawerf 8y ago
There was a firsthand video where a guy came back after the fire was over to find his neighbors as a bunch of skeletons inside their burnt cars. "I went to their house right here in this white car to get them out. She had to put her ma
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by zawerf 8y ago
I would love to read more about this. Do you have a link?
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by zawerf 8y ago
Is this a good method to use while trying out a lot of ideas? Usually when I am optimizing code, most of the ideas don't work out and performance remains roughly the same (or so I think - I don't really know and want a better work
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by zawerf 8y ago
How do you interpret the derivative of that? It's now log(2)*2^A. What does "log(2)" mean as a type here? Do you expand it back out as a taylor series like in the circular list example?
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by zawerf 8y ago
Yea it has the same problems as web storage. Also it's too opaque so the typical user won't understand that clearing their browser data means losing their work. They have already been trained by other sites to believe that their d
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by zawerf 8y ago
This will be amazing for simple webapps! In a lot of use cases, all you really want is a simple way to read and save a small blob of data. But to achieve this today you would have to do one of: - Save it in local storage, but lose their dat
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by zawerf 8y ago
Is there a design doc or talk about the internals? In particular are there any good resources about the details of using memory mapping? I know how to implement persistent data structures (and it seems like lmdb is just a persistent b+-tree
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by zawerf 8y ago
I find it interesting that this quote will become less and less absurd as technology continues to improve. The confusion stems from the fact that a human can tolerate a certain amount of "wrong" and still give the "right answ
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by zawerf 8y ago
I remember seeing a demo of pix2pix where this was one of targeted use cases. [1] There were even demos of the reverse, where you take a street map and convert it back into a plausible photorealistic satellite image. [2] [1] https:/&#
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by zawerf 8y ago
> not quite on the same creative level as Tolkien. There's no reason to throw shade at a dead guy. According to this list, Tolkien sold 250 million and Jin Yong sold 300 million: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L
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by zawerf 8y ago
> unless you only have three nodes Interestingly enough this seems to be how managed sql solutions do it. You just have one primary and one failover replica in another zone. So a quorum write is just a synchronous write to both (2 out of
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by zawerf 8y ago
I believe you're right. They go into their design in their MySQL HA post: https://githubengineering.com/mysql-high-availability-at-git... > In MySQL’s semi-synchronous replication a master does not acknowledge a tra
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by zawerf 8y ago
I feel like they failed to do proper incentive modeling for crowdsourcing (or maybe I just don't understand the target audience). Recaptcha(v1) also does transcription correction but they incentivize a huge pool of users to help, not b
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by zawerf 8y ago
Yea it did but editing the original comment makes it boring. I looked up the percentage swings caused by CEO deaths and it's actually not that big and not always a definite drop. So it wasn't as surely profitable as I thought. A m
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by zawerf 8y ago
I got hit by "Distributed Spam Distraction" recently. It works by having a bot signup on thousands of websites at once with your email. The purpose is to flood your email with hundreds of welcome message emails every minute so you
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by zawerf 8y ago
It is indeed surprising because the profit motive is there and it is not limited to just rival billionaires. Any random guy with enough capital can short the company stock and then place a hit on the CEO. I would expect stuff like that to h
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by zawerf 8y ago
You could be right, I don't know. Maybe the authors can tell us about their experience. My intuition is that the dataset will be too imbalanced to learn anything useful. Even if you crawl only decensored images, the area you truly care
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by zawerf 8y ago
I believe "Image Inpainting for Irregular Holes Using Partial Convolutions" has been superseded by "Free-Form Image Inpainting with Gated Convolution", especially for interactive use cases? https://arxiv.org&#
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by zawerf 8y ago
Can't mention Oracle/Sun without linking to this amazing rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&feature=youtu.be...
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by zawerf 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-U7a04GTpk
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by zawerf 8y ago
There's a somewhat similar dessert box company making 150k/month after a year with a nice writeup: https://www.starterstory.com/dessert-boxes It seems like instagram influencers and facebook ads are working out be
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by zawerf 8y ago
People are editing the js file to bypass checks lol (like overwriting cells with links in them)

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