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by tc 2y ago
Rust Project/Foundation | Program Manager | Remote Rust is a programming language that helps people build reliable and efficient software at scale. It's a language that many people love. The members of the Rust Project work toget
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by tc 6y ago
Here's the thing. Even if you're OK with Apple (or whoever) controlling what you can run on your computers, this is a centralization of power that will be co-opted. Let's say that Australia wants to ban consumer encryption.
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by tc 7y ago
George Orwell covered this basic point in `1984` (published in 1949): > The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High.
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by tc 7y ago
Could you perhaps speak to some of the engineering details that the paper glosses over. E.g.: - Are the action and information abstraction procedures hand-engineered or learned in some manner? - How does it decide how many bets to consider
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by tc 8y ago
The security of package managers is something we're going to have to fix. Some years ago, in offices, computers were routinely infected or made unusable because the staff were downloading and installing random screen savers from the in
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by tc 8y ago
The basic problem is that what he was doing for the first 12 months was right . Doing what a big company executive would have done would have been wrong . When the new CEO comes in and wants things done immediately in the big company way
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by tc 8y ago
In the West we have a false sense of security that totalitarianism will inevitably fail. We've seen so many examples of fallen tyrannical states. But many ideas fail the first few times they're tried. China seems committed to m
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by tc 8y ago
Let's summarize the situation: Abstract: S/MIME and MUAs are broken. OpenPGP (with MDC) is not, but clients MUST check for GPG error codes. Use Mutt carefully or copy/paste into GPG for now. - Some mail clients concatenate
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by tc 8y ago
Tesla probably shouldn't be saying anything about this at all, even just to avoid giving it more news cycles. But if they were going to say something, here's what they should have said the first time. ---- We take great care in b
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by tc 8y ago
They want to build up the language compiler itself to better support machine learning. That requires a language with enough type information to support sophisticated analysis. It should be built on LLVM. It needs an existing ecosystem of
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TensorFlow Dev Summit 2018 – Livestream(youtube.com)
2 points by tc 8y ago|0 comments
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Founder Stories by tlb (2007)(archive.is)
20 points by tc 9y ago|0 comments
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by tc 9y ago
Just as there's only one hero story, at a high level, there's only one founder story. TLB described this archetype some years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16523609
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by tc 9y ago
There's only one real answer. It's when you're ready to be a big company. But not just because you want to be a big company. Heavy hitters (i.e. former executives of big companies) bring big company expectations. They ex
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by tc 9y ago
Collective bargaining is probably the wrong metaphor. This is the principle-agent problem. The citizens would be better off if the elected officials worked to make their city the best possible place to do business for all companies on an e
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by tc 9y ago
As one example of how this can be useful, Jo and Bengio recently used Fourier filtering to measure the susceptibility of neural networks to adversarial examples. By changing the statistics of the images in a principled manner, they confirm
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by tc 9y ago
This DSL seems largely motivated by the desire for provable compile-time bounds checking. One general-purpose modern language that can check bounds at compile time and generate code that is performance-competitive with C is ATS: http:&#x2
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by tc 9y ago
When things will start getting interesting is when we figure out how to get move simulation and search into the network itself, rather than programming that on the outside. As far as I know, no-one has even the faintest idea of how to do
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by tc 9y ago
The PSTN and similar systems do target five-9s, but fortunately that only requires keeping it to ~20 minutes downtime over 4 years . ~20 minutes over 40 years would be six-9s. (* 1e-5 365.2425 24 60 4) => 21.038 (* 1e-6 365.2
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by tc 9y ago
Geoffrey Hinton described doing this back in 2012. He noted that it learned more slowly but generalized better, he described how this is nearly isomorphic with dropout, and he presented a biological motivation: https://www.youtu
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by tc 10y ago
It doesn't really matter. The key thing is that the constant bytes prevent a symmetry from forming in the block. So it matters that the string does aid such symmetry. Making it a text string is just a flourish helpful to us humans.
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by tc 10y ago
This presents a false dilemma. There are other options than "own everything" or "be negligent and get sued." Contracts can say almost anything. You can agree to grant the company a liberal license to anything you deliv
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by tc 10y ago
Somebody has to do these things. They can be done more or less well. This has a big impact on your company's success and on the happiness of your team. Those are the only good reasons to endure the hardships. You're coming to u
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by tc 10y ago
Knew before clicking that this was going to be about DJB having won. Peter Gutmann definitely has the credibility to make this critique. But saying that DJB having won is more a vote against other crypto than a vote for Dan is like saying
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by tc 11y ago
Silent Circle - Geneva - REMOTE the norm, INTERNs welcome We do end-to-end secure communications and a secure mobile platform (Blackphone). The people who work here are highly interested in ensuring that privacy remains a possibility in th
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The craziest bug you never heard about from 2008: A Linux threading regression(timetobleed.com)
99 points by tc 13y ago|32 comments
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by tc 13y ago
This is really damaging. Not only will this cause other countries to put up barriers against US (and UK) services and products, it's going to affect uptake of standards developed here. On the lighter side, a treasure hunt was just anno
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Paul Vixie to step down from ARIN board(lists.arin.net)
40 points by tc 13y ago|11 comments
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Some NSA Employees Spied on their Love Interests(theblaze.com)
10 points by tc 13y ago|1 comments
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by tc 13y ago
This message is meant for exactly two groups: 1) Google, 2) other municipalities. AT&T is telling Google that they'll play in any market Google commits to and drive the margins out of it. They want Google to stop doing this, and they'r

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