daddyo

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by daddyo 9y ago
Some rumors that the admin of the servers was not arrested, but took the site down, to reconsider security and relocate servers, before starting up again. That's why BTC-e does not show a giant FBI logo with a notice.
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by daddyo 9y ago
How would one, hypothetically, go about selling exploits/bugs to governments as a freelancer?
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by daddyo 9y ago
> This is quite wrong; it's still considered a crime of stealing from the bank. The law cares. Like I said, in many jurisdictions this was only recently amended with special clauses -- clarifying the distinction between physical and
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by daddyo 9y ago
> but if I hacked into it and took the 1s and 0s making up your balance, well, there's no question that's a crime. It's a crime of computer / network intrusion. Not a crime of property law (you can't own a record
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by daddyo 9y ago
I'm talking about people buying the coins from the hacker on an exchange. I think in my jurisdiction we have a law against pawning stolen goods: If the price is too good to be true (100$ macbook), and you still buy it, you can get your
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by daddyo 9y ago
We had over 400 applicants for a recent position. Fairly giving them a time investment of 30 minutes (reading CV, tailoring technical interview, answering questions) would mean 200 hours of productivity loss. There is no way to defend this
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by daddyo 9y ago
I'd say a small coding challenge/puzzle/fizzbuzz test is a must-have if you get over a 100 applicants. I'll always look for curiosity, passion, intellectual honesty. Depending on the job I'd further look at what the
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by daddyo 9y ago
They were dumping it at 50% market price for ETH a few days ago. Don't know if they dumped it all or still sitting on a bit for when the market recovers.
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by daddyo 9y ago
There are a few problems though. - Since Cryptocurrency is international, the US SEC does not have jurisdiction everywhere in the world. When there is millions on the line, you could just move to another country and try a scheme, or direct
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by daddyo 9y ago
Then the hacker proceeded in dumping the Veritaseum for 50% of market value. Now if you believe the price will bounce back, you can make a lot of profit on stolen coins. Immoral? Quite possibly. Against the law? Not this year.
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by daddyo 9y ago
Thanks. Just sold 100k.
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by daddyo 9y ago
Adding to 1.: This came out of MatrixNet research, which was state-of-the-art (and well-guarded) for years.
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by daddyo 9y ago
Seems that deep learning can benefit from gradient boosting too (at least, from a computational perspective). https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04964 "Learning Deep ResNet Blocks Sequentially using Boosting Theory"
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by daddyo 9y ago
Only a few HN submissions each year are so complete that it is nearly impossible to gather comments to start a discussion. Well done! I wonder how close we are to running these "excessive" ensembles in a production environment. Li
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by daddyo 9y ago
Yes. I think these architectures are very exciting and a step in the "right" direction. Eventually we will want to move from rote memorization and pattern matching to more challenging aspects of intelligence. https://ar
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by daddyo 9y ago
Your naive understanding is supported by at least one deep learning authority: > I haven’t found a way to properly articulate this yet but somehow everything we do in deep learning is memorization (interpolation, pattern recognition, etc
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by daddyo 9y ago
Feature importance is not quite the same as interpretability. Random Forests can give feature importance, but that does not account for interactions between features. So, in the end, you don't know how a model made a decision (it could
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by daddyo 9y ago
High school diploma solution: There are increasingly more ways to distribute wealth unevenly, than evenly. Reduce the problem to the simplest case of 3 persons: `a`, `b`, and `c`. Person `a` has decision to give to either `b` or `c`. Then u
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by daddyo 9y ago
If we could calculate the perfect model architecture for all unseen data, without relying on evaluation/experimentation/heuristics, then we'd have effectively solved the halting problem. Mathematically, closest to that would
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by daddyo 9y ago
Then again, you probably learned how to sort a list in Python, before you heard about TimSort. Going the other way around is commendable, but not necessary. If a student wants to learn how to play the guitar, you show them 3 chords so they
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by daddyo 9y ago
Grasping. Grasping for unrelated tidbits to make a point you set out to make, before you reviewed the facts. Using 4chan vs. Tay as an example of the limit of chat support bots. Using Netflix's 2012 competition ensembles developed over
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by daddyo 9y ago
Google does not penalize Facebook for web spam. Facebook, to my knowledge, does not do: - hidden text, - doorway pages, - cloaking, or - sneaky redirects They just show a big popover nagging you to log-in. But you can click this away. If ce
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by daddyo 9y ago
- There are other websites with way more authority talking about SGML. (Like the W3C website). - You have no/little sites or forums linking to your content. - Your page titles are uninformative. Biggest offender is probably the homepag
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by daddyo 9y ago
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreportform?hl=en > Webspam pages try to get better placement in Google's search results by using various tricks such as hidden text, doorway pages, cloaking, or
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by daddyo 9y ago
I also thought this was pretty rich. First broadly attack Google's income, then complain about discrimination when Google ranks your paywalled content lower. Though I trust Google to make a decision based on user satisfaction, not unre
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by daddyo 9y ago
* Facebook now requires I send them a copy of my ID when I try to open an account. I don't want to facilitate them. * I assume tracking becomes more aggressive when you have an account. For instance, Facebook could connect you to every
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by daddyo 9y ago
For me blogging worked best when blogging on a subject I just turned novice in. I'd write as if writing for myself 1 year ago. This worked out really well. Positive feedback made me write more. Now I've become more expert on that
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by daddyo 9y ago
What's the general signal to noise ratio for bug reports?
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by daddyo 9y ago
IANAL either. The summary gives the example of securing your neighbors roof when a tornado is about to hit. Possible laws to break to do this, are "breaking and entering" or "trespassing". Note that a lot of these laws s
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by daddyo 9y ago
Not in all jurisdictions, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negotiorum_gestio > Negotiorum gestio (Latin for "management of business") is a form of spontaneous voluntary agency in which an intervenor or in

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