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by saguro 9y ago
This sounds actually illegal? Like unauthorized access to computer systems federal crime illegal? What the fuck were they thinking.
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by saguro 9y ago
That thing facebook does with demanding your phone number, that's my favorite dark pattern. Apple does the same thing with iOS upgrades. First you pose a seemingly innocent question, like 'would you like to give us your phone numb
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by saguro 9y ago
That's a great example of why unit testing is mostly useless. Having an expected/input output set when writing something like a parser is standard practice. Turning that set into unit tests is worthless for a few reasons. 1: You w
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by saguro 9y ago
There's a much easier way to break it down. Tests are a pattern. And patterns are the bread and butter of the medicore. That's not to say that patterns or tests are bad, but high calibre guys know when to use which tool. As a tool
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by saguro 9y ago
A DNN might be more effective at exploring the hypyerparameter space than people are with their intuition and luck. Rumor is Google has achieved this.
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by saguro 9y ago
So the only advantage of the TPU is it's a simpler and more specialized asic? Google didn't break any new ground in terms of training perf?
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by saguro 9y ago
No. Handing over card details just pre-authorizes them to make transactions later.
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by saguro 9y ago
> Many of “thousand of Reddit stories” are just like your comment. Repeating a meme, nothing more. Demonstrably, provably, completely, wrong. https://www.reddit.com/r/netneutrality/comments/7kzblu/i_co
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by saguro 9y ago
You're suggesting that your n=1 anecdote weighs more than those thousands of reddit stories? Or that my position is invalid because instead of engaging in another n=1 anecdote I aggregated the outcome of many? For your one story, you c
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by saguro 9y ago
www.google.com/search?q=i+contacted+my+representative+site%3Areddit.com Knock yourself out. Spoiler alert: almost everyone reports getting a cookie-cutter email or scripted response about why the rep will stay the course. They clearly
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by saguro 9y ago
Because calling paid-for representatives has such a strong record of success over the last decade of human rights erosion. Talking to your representative is roughly as useful in curbing these things, as doing nothing at all. What's the
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by saguro 9y ago
The plea of stupidity in high profile insider trading cases is a smoke screen - that was my point. Highly successful executives engage in insider trading quite frequently (see link). When they do, they take a calculated risk. You can be qui
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by saguro 9y ago
> The news doesn't seem to have been that bad for Intel's stock That's a red herring. Krzanich had no idea how badly the news would impact the stock. He may have well overestimated it in his mind and chose to sell. Just be
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by saguro 9y ago
From TFA: > As you can see in the above code, the login functionality specifically > looks for an admin user named "mydlinkBRionyg" and will accept the password >of "abc12345cba" if found. This is a classic back
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by saguro 9y ago
I would say that if people on HN are saying the attack is too stupid to be government supported, then the government has succeeded at their primary goal of having plausible deniability with these issues. If we take recent history, we now ha
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by saguro 9y ago
That's probably a question that CS researches will get to address one day in the future... Estimating what percentage of reasonable length DNA arrangements leads to intelligent organisms.
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by saguro 9y ago
The definition of 'arranged marriage' today has been neutered. Until 2 generations ago, arranged marriage meant that women had absolutely no say in their marriage - it was at the decision of the parents and to further the desires
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by saguro 9y ago
> discerning of good and evil Humans don't have such a capacity. The notions of 'good' and 'evil' have historically been in flux and went through many huge changes. Modern humans consider the typical behaviors of
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by saguro 9y ago
Does it even matter? It's a learned behavior in humans too. Nurture plays a far bigger role in what we do than people give it credit for.
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by saguro 9y ago
I don't think all branches of evolution lead to intelligence given any finite amount of time.
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by saguro 9y ago
It's worse than just having to trust their metrics. Last time I looked, you can't access your own realtime heart rate no matter what - it was only available to 'registered partners' or some shit. When I was looking, thei
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by saguro 9y ago
Agreed. I guess the core of the question is 'what does that ultimately give nintendo?'. And that's where I think the government needs to step in as it did with copyright and patents, and ask an additional question: 'what
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by saguro 9y ago
But they don't always release a next gen device. And a lot of people who own a <brand> device will automatically buy next gen <brand> when it comes out. And then only a comparatively small fraction of games is typically re-
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by saguro 9y ago
I don't buy the added development cost argument. Firstly because AAA dev kits already have out of the box support for the Switch, secondly because sony and xbone put just as much effort into preventing unsigned code execution as ninten
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by saguro 9y ago
Beyond preventing the distribution of pirated games, why do console manufacturers put so much effort into preventing unvetted code from running on their hardware? Does Nintendo actually stand to lose anything if a homebrew community evolved
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by saguro 9y ago
How about by manipulating your facebook news feed and exposing you to a carefully selected series of images and headlines to sway your opinion on political topics without you even realizing. How about identifying which youtubers your childr
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by saguro 9y ago
I wonder if this guy will look at this topic and all the counter arguments and downvotes and actually stop and ask himself if maybe its possible he is a bit brainwashed.
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by saguro 9y ago
I mean, you're using moralistic arguments to defend a clearly immoral market actor whose entire business model revolves around abusing lack of regulations to collect and sell consumer information without their knowledge or informed con
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by saguro 9y ago
If anyone is wondering what greater harm comes from the advertising industry than just showing obnoxious images, it's this. Consumers becoming so brain washed, so accepting of the advertising status quo that they actually defend it eve
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by saguro 9y ago
> To me you are consenting the moment you decide to use services and websites that cost millions of dollars to maintain and expecting and paying little to nothing compared to the real cost of those services. That's not how consent w

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