jnotarstefano

Joined 16 years ago

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298
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58
Member since
Jan 7
Currently building Air Gap (https://airgaphq.com), previously Senior Software Development Engineer at AWS and Junior Fellow at CERN
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Comment · 8 years ago
I think it's a typo: "Whenever Python EXITS, why isn't..."
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
I don't think that the link is pointing to the right press release. It should probably point to https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/updates/scoap3.cfm, which announces that APS will in fact join the SCOAP3 initiative.

(Another telltale sign is the fact that the link refers to Rolf Heuer as the Director General, but in fact he is the former Director General, while the current one is Fabiola Gianotti.)

Comment · 10 years ago
That's an excellent idea. I wrote the copy on that page trying to convey "can I get your help against these bad people?", rather than something blaming the user, or a scary looking warning.

But showing them the _reason_ why a certain website is blocked can become an opportunity to teach people critical thought, something that other comment threads point out.

Comment · 10 years ago
I disagree on this slope being slippery (or actually, this being a slope at all).

Let me be more precise, and use tptacek's words in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12999887: "fake news = spam sites built from scripts consisting largely of a backcatalog nonsense stories [...] with a one or two carefully produced fake stories as a "payload".

I think this definition is as objective as it gets, and clearly excludes things I might disagree with politically, but are not the target of this extension.

Comment · 10 years ago
I like "reality" : )

I chose "safety" because I think I copied Chrome's message when visiting a website with an invalid certificate.

Comment · 10 years ago
Given two clusters, I can predict the class of a new article by choosing the cluster whose centroid is closest to the article.

So, given some training data that produced two reasonable clusters with respect to the ground truth, I have a model that I can expect to generalize well on new data.

Now, this is not what that notebook shows, because it's missing the evaluating on testing data! The main point of the notebook is that the Jaccard Distance of the tokens of the HTML of the page, despite being very simple, appears to generate a reasonable model.

Comment · 10 years ago
Consider that I built it this night for http://lauzhack.com/, so it's not intended to be a fully-featured solution to the problem.

The main issue I wanted to address is the fact that such a blocker must be widely installed to be useful. Therefore, the Facebook message is intended to prod current users of the extensions to ask that their friends install it as well.

Comment · 10 years ago
Exactly. Those are the only websites I'm interested in targeting with this extension.

For example, I would never blacklist Breitbart, because I'm not interested in censoring political opinions I disagree with. I just want to free us from the burden of these websites that add nothing to the world and leech attention from everyone.

Comment · 10 years ago
I'll bite. Why is "3" the wrong answer?

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