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Alternative hypothesis: most 'secret family recipes' are in fact original. However, the average SFR never get passed around, because it produces average-tasting stuff. The recipe o…

New Atlassian logo is better than the old logo. Old one always looked more like an unimportant decorative element than logo. I totally agree about the hate on rich markup replacing…

They're probably going for native advertising.

Sure, we CAN contribute. But what's in it for us? Are we going to get a browser that caters to our own needs? No, evidently power users are no longer the target demographic. Are we…

The telemetry probably shows that all the power users opted out of telemetry.

Quite a dangerous tool. What happens if I copypaste some random text into the file and press save, by mistake? Are there mechanisms to limit the damage? Also, when I remove a hash …

...or you could just scrap the whole idea and not bother with it. This is true for the user, too. If the only viable choices are 'verify claims at great cost and no gain every few …

what percentage of FF users on the planet do you expect could read a paper on differential privacy and actually verify those points, while understanding all the ifs and gotchas, an…

So, what are the odds that we'll have an AI that writes at GoT quality before George finishes the last book?

Look at it from a security-conscious user's perspective: I would have to verify that: 1. The concept is sound. 2. It is implemented as described. 3. It is implemented with no bugs.…

1. Any data collection at all deanonymizes the user, cf panopticlick. 2. Frankly even opt-out is not acceptable. I can't recommend any software that peridically asks users for data…

Look at it this way: whenever you are running a program you didn't write yourself, you're running a bunch of commands you never checked. This is no different to, say, downloading a…

>what nefarious things can one do knowing that some anonymous user happens to e.g. refresh pages a lot (or even, how can that data be sold)? Page refresh pattern data would go a lo…

Generalized version: "Only people get ". Once you see the pattern you'll see it everywhere.

You need access to expertise, equipment, grounds, peer competition. These all require money and/or connections.

Going pro depends significantly on the economics of supply and demand, if it's defined as 'finding enough people to pay you to do this for a living'. It's easy to go pro as a plumb…

I think the reason is that if he had used 'she', there would have been a shitstorm. If you do a word-replace of all instances of 'he' with 'she' and 'his' with 'her', it becomes an…

Nonesense, obviously the money is in selling recorded conversations to the highest bidder. Identifying spending patterns via image recognition of pets and babies would be up there …

What's the current state of art in this direction? Is there a way to encode equations explicitly prior to training?

Academic code typically just has to work once or a handful of times, for a small number of highly expert users, frequently just for the author. Ease of update is of the essence - y…

This is a story about misaligned incentives and social status. Having the special programs lowers the social status of the demographic it targets, because it suggests those people …

Depends on whether I get a price better than my assessment of the asset's present value.

This is purely speculation, but judging by how gun-ho they were about OPEC production cuts, they may have much less oil than widely believed. It could be they would have needed to …