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9 years ago
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on: GoToMyPC has been hacked, all customer passwords reset
The best part about running a cybersecurity company: lots of easy, free marketing. It's a really good time to be in the industry. It is unfortunate that people are trusting companies to protect their information and it ends up being really hard to do properly. Every able-bodied security engineer really should get in the game since there's money to be made as well as good to be done.
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9 years ago
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on: The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Engineers to Reinvent the Web
I can say with some confidence that the blame lies almost entirely with the stewards. Until we learn how to converge faster towards consensus, things are going to remain painfully broken for long stretches of time. The inhibitor here isn't technological and it has nothing to do with the people on the ground relying on the web. It has to do with how things get run at a top level.
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9 years ago
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on: When everything else fails, amateur radio will still be there and thriving
Pretty fun read. I've been into amateur radio for a while, so here's hoping it one day proves more useful than just a frivolous hobby :)
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9 years ago
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on: Was Someone Tipped Off to the LinkedIn Sale?
What's really weird is that's way too small a profit to risk being flagged for insider trading.
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9 years ago
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on: Walmart Canada stops accepting Visa cards
So they just started a campaign of attrition? They're going to lose unless other companies get on board. I'm assuming Canada was chosen intentionally, based on the data, to minimize losses. But this is going nowhere unless others follow suit.
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9 years ago
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on: Machine learning for financial prediction
This is one of the better responses. Issues that arise: low # of data points at macro timescale, time series data (and local correlation between individual data points) making it hard to extract training/testing sets, and the overarching structural shifts in the market over time that invalidate older data (depending on context).
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9 years ago
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on: AWS is inappropriate for small teams because its complexity demands a specialist
If you're in the tech startup game and find AWS too complicated, you have bigger problems.
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9 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?
This whole incident has convinced me to actually use a tool like this, so I'm going to write one and distribute the extension code for free. I promise you won't be able to detect it, so good luck.
I think anyone who wants the ability to obscure their search footprint should have it. And if you think otherwise, I'm doubly convinced it's necessary.
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9 years ago
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on: Hilary Clinton's search results manipulated by Sourcefeed, not Google
Do any of these people understand that the autocomplete algorithm takes many other things into account? Like your personal search history, Google's internal dossier built on top of your usage of all their services, and even things like location, type of device, etc.
It's very difficult to get an unbiased autocomplete suggestion and actually requires some nontrivial degree of experimentation/the appropriate setup.
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9 years ago
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on: Statement by Jill Bähring Regarding Jacob Appelbaum
What's especially shameful about all of this is that a ton of smart people rushed to condemn Applebaum before we had a complete accounting. If this many intelligent people can prematurely convict someone in the court of public opinion, what hope is there for the rest of society?
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9 years ago
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on: Economist Who Won a Nobel Prize Thinks Owning a Home Is a Bad Investment (2013)
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9 years ago
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on: DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine
I know that tech company M.O. is creeping invasiveness by acclimating users to marginally more Orwellian incursions of their privacy over time, but are we already at the point where something like this can gain widespread acceptance? Seems like the willingness of the general populace to prostrate itself to our newfangled corporate overlords is only accelerating.
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9 years ago
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on: Our firmware is baked into your machine and we are watching you right now
Is this legal? Serious question.
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10 years ago
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on: Am I really a developer or just a good Googler?
We do heavy backend unit/integration testing, less so on the frontend and a lot of UAT. It's good enough to move fast with some confidence but yes sometimes you have to do tough things and that comes from experience. I recently wrote a distributed, cache-coherent session store for instance. Googling is necessary not sufficient.
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10 years ago
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on: Am I really a developer or just a good Googler?
People need to focus more on getting results. We're collectively so steeped in posturing about technology stacks and idiosyncratic decisionmaking that we've missed the bigger picture: get something done. For instance, anyone who says they factored in all the tradeoffs and then chose Haskell isn't trying to get things done or build a sustainable business - they're trying to orchestrate a technological boondoggle.
At the end of the day no one cares if you're a good developer. They care that the service looks good and works well. Googling is how you build a better service ergo do it and don't worry about it.
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10 years ago
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on: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation divests entire $187m holding in BP
Im sure BP being in the shitter had nothing to do with this decision.
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10 years ago
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on: What Happened When Facebook Hired Some Journalists
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10 years ago
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on: What Happened When Facebook Hired Some Journalists
Because they're a monopolistic entity with unprecedented control of information flow. Nothing quite like this has ever existed. It's in the public interest that it be regulated precisely because it can control the outcome of elections and other behaviors that are functionally essential in a society.
