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by kds 11y ago
Nicely implemented chat services are in demand, or so it seems. They might be sold into the billions and monetized with ads, and I guess the negative spin comes from purely business origin, though disguised as concerns of crypto professiona
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by kds 11y ago
Misleading title. This has nothing to do with privacy and encryption. Just to quote a couple of recent Pavel Durov's tweets: "To media covering us this week: Telegram channels are public broadcasts. They are the opposite of privat
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by kds 11y ago
EU is not a state with a single national mindset and identity - it's a bag of different countries with different fragmented cultures and languages. China has its Baidu and Qzone, and Russia has its Yandex and VK. All this in spite of t
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by kds 14y ago
I believe the multi-millionaire publisher Felix Dennis ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dennis ) in a certain sense would not quite agree... In his book "How to Get Rich" he related his hint to pioneer PC-magazines publishing to his int
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by kds 14y ago
Well, maybe the way Danny Ocean (George Cloony) manages his team in Ocean's Twelve (the movie) - tight team, clear plan, known desirable end-result, exact subtasks and timing, confidence in the experts' abilities (proven before).. A sense o
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by kds 14y ago
There is a book, " Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy "(2010), by Joseph Stiglitz - an economist of Nobel prize fame and former Chief Economist of the World Bank, who very early saw the coming of the globa
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by kds 14y ago
I did not see in the presentation the following code snippet: " from twisted.internet import protocol, reactor " Somehow I feel cheated... ;) :P
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by kds 14y ago
This is indeed very revealing on the interesting qualities/properties of the engine => " ...and so I was watching how this game developed – Houdini sacrificed a pawn, two pawn, three pawns in a queen-less middle game, to end up winning
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by kds 14y ago
Big problems - sometimes before even to be formulated and asked - require big fundamental and applicative science research programmes and the respective advancement. These are not something to be expected from venture capital. They are some
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by kds 14y ago
The title of the submission is a bit misleading. PG explicitly states in the essay that it's not that much on Java itself but rather on the way hackers judge technologies (the "hacker radar" in his expression). And these are not quite predi
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by kds 14y ago
I can't wait for the next Hollywood sci-fi movie in which aliens discover Earth just to find out that humanity wiped out itself to extinction or mysteriously left the planet for some reason... but Facebook, YouTube, and Google - as computat
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by kds 14y ago
How did he manage to find you after 20 years?
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by kds 14y ago
The graph is built according to Facebook data, as the article claims. Certain edges and vertices should be easy to check then.
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The Bilderberg Group's Social Influence Graph(businessinsider.com)
1 points by kds 14y ago|1 comments
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by kds 14y ago
It was RMS in the beginning - he built the foundations: the software (GCC, the GNU-project, Emacs), the philosophy and the values (his essays and interviews), the organisation (FSF), the copyleft legal rights (GPL). ESR wouldn't be as recog
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by kds 14y ago
Congrats to the courageous - and experienced! - startup founders with kids and supporting wives - I wish them great success.
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Does anybody use Maglev Ruby in production?
2 points by kds 14y ago|1 comments
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by kds 14y ago
This sounds really cool and might lead to some changes in user behavior and usage patterns - since users would have the ability to judge objectively on their usage.
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by kds 14y ago
Thanks for sharing your opinion - I'd give them credit, though. At least they've discovered the virus during their investigative research.
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by kds 14y ago
Thanks for the securelist-link. It's indeed a better source for some technical details, also from a Kaspersky expert... But in the RT-interview the Kaspersky's chief malware expert says things that concur with what you share: " There is no
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by kds 14y ago
" It was actually after an inquiry from the International Telecommunications Union, which is a part of the United Nations, who actually asked us to start conducting research " ...Wow, this sounds serious, indeed.
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‘Flame’ Virus explained: How it works and who’s behind it(rt.com)
28 points by kds 14y ago|10 comments
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by kds 14y ago
http://www.claymath.org/Popular_Lectures/Minesweeper/ " It's not often you can win a million dollars by analysing a computer game, but by a curious conjunction of fate, there's a chance that you might. " -- prof. Ian Stuart, in a lecture
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A Story on a Concurrency Bug in a Missile Launch System (2007)(blog.kickin-the-darkness.com)
2 points by kds 14y ago|0 comments
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by kds 14y ago
An interesting observation, indeed - so the enhancement opportunities were effectively explored within the first year or so. The next two years count for far less, though I guess the cleverest approaches started to emerge just then.
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by kds 14y ago
Well, the widely-known real example I mention is the Netflix Prize result -> 3.3% CAGR (cumulative annual growth rate, the 10% is for the whole period of 3 years, not for 1 year). The numbers you mention are the hypothetical ones. G
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by kds 14y ago
10% increase in 3 years translates to around. 3.3% yearly growth rate. So in your example the 3.3% increase would be that 10M$ => so 1% of your annual business revenue is 10/3.3 or just above 3M$. But that means you already have a real
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by kds 14y ago
I felt a similar kind of skepticism when I saw it took ~3 years to improve the Netflix recommendation system with just ~10% - in the context of the Netflix Prize, with great minds (data scientists and practitioners) participating and collab
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by kds 14y ago
From the respective wikipedia links: "Tunguska-M1 offers a 360-degree field of view, a detection range of around 18 km and can detect targets flying as low as 15 m" "The specific feature of the Pantsir-S1 system is the combination of a mult
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by kds 14y ago
Well, if you're approaching a senior age, and you've been recognized for your fundamental breakthrough scientific research in computer science - that you made while having fun writing software - maybe you should think also about writing a b

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