cirenehc | 4 years ago | on: LastPass Login Attempted Activity Blocked – More Information
Why are you not satisfied? Do you have additional data on why this could be a real vulnerability on their end?
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cirenehc | 4 years ago | on: Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video]
A significant portion of content creators do it as a full time job. Ads is a stable revenue stream for these content creators. You as a consumer are free to move to any decentralized video platform you like, but the main bottleneck for any significant shift in market share depends on content creators, and ultimately, on advertisers.
cirenehc | 4 years ago | on: Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands
> Roku alleges Google has asked it to favor YouTube music results from voice commands made on the Roku remote while the YouTube app is open, even if the user's music preference is set to default to another music app, like Pandora.
How else do you use voice search for a music video on Youtube? If I open youtube and do a voice search. I'm expecting the search to be constrained to the app.
cirenehc | 5 years ago | on: Facial recognition can predict person’s political orientation with 72% accuracy
My original comment said:
> So if I just assign the majority label to all of the population of a given demographics group, I would get the same result right? i.e., predicting "left" for all minorities under 30. You would also get ~70% accuracy.
I meant that even if you control age, gender, ethnicity, a very trivial predictor (i.e., always predicting the majority label) could yield similar performance. What I meant to say was that their model may not perform as well as they made it sound.
cirenehc | 5 years ago | on: Facial recognition can predict person’s political orientation with 72% accuracy
My interpretation of control is fixing all other variables (the ones they mentioned) except for the one being measured (political orientation). If that's not what they did I'm happy to learn.
cirenehc | 5 years ago | on: Facial recognition can predict person’s political orientation with 72% accuracy
Please state what you want to say. No need to be passive aggressive.
cirenehc | 5 years ago | on: Facial recognition can predict person’s political orientation with 72% accuracy
> "Accuracy remained high (69%) even when controlling for age, gender, and ethnicity."
So if I just assign the majority label to all of the population of a given demographics group, I would get the same result right? i.e., predicting "left" for all minorities under 30. You would also get ~70% accuracy.
cirenehc | 5 years ago | on: Judge in Google case disturbed that 'incognito' users are tracked
Because in one case the target is the individual. The other case your data gets aggregated and sold as bulk in the form of ad impressions (tracking).
A better comparison would be, the gov uses your census data to mail you flyers.
cirenehc | 5 years ago | on: I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine
I think the concept of privacy directly conflicts with anti-censorship. The most private system is also 100% censored.
cirenehc | 5 years ago | on: Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay
Sounds like this would have a negative impact for startups where the majority of the compensation comes from equity right?
cirenehc | 6 years ago | on: Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)
> Can we scrape Reddit, Twitter, or Facebook in order to stand up a competing service that strips out all the ads?
How are you going to pay for it? Subscription model doesn't work for search/social networks.
cirenehc | 6 years ago | on: Google's Project Dragonfly 'Terminated' in China
cirenehc | 6 years ago | on: Google's Project Dragonfly 'Terminated' in China
> I have profound sympathy for the victims of authoritarian regimes, and I absolutely do not believe that the way to help them is to collaborate with the very system that oppresses them. Pretending otherwise sounds like Newspeak to me.
I have relatives in China. Censorship is the least of their worries when the current Baidu monopoly is allowing promoted results that are sometimes flat-out evil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wei_Zexi).
cirenehc | 6 years ago | on: Welcome to Shanghai, the capital of the future
> Below, another group of migrant workers drink bear in their dormitory after their shift in 2013.
They really need to proof read their articles.
cirenehc | 7 years ago | on: Base salaries offered to software engineers in SF, NYC, and Seattle
I think so (unless the job is remote), I think expense has to be taken into consideration when salary is being calculated.
cirenehc | 7 years ago | on: Martin Shkreli steers his company from prison with contraband cellphone
What you said is not entirely true. Daraprim (the drug you are referring to) costs $10 out of pocket for insured patients. For uninsured low income patients it's free of charge.
cirenehc | 7 years ago | on: The Stigma of Choosing Trade School over College
That's because your interview process is already biasing the result. To get a fairer comparison you should take a random sample from both groups (out of all the applicants) and see (although self selection bias is still in play here).
cirenehc | 7 years ago | on: Adblock filter rule list modified politically in Finland
ML is not magic, it's just statistics.
cirenehc | 7 years ago | on: Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story
Allegations of a security breach is useless without evidence backing it up. So far, Bloomberg has provided zero evidence.
cirenehc | 7 years ago | on: Senators Demand Google Hand Over Internal Memo Urging Google+ Cover-Up
I have worked in healthcare related systems before that needs to be HIPAA compliant, even for those systems public disclosure of a vulnerability is not a requirement. No software is bug free, and many seemingly benign bugs are security vulnerabilities.
Try and name one company that reports all their bugs (security/non security) discovered internally.
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