Search Results for “The Honk Steve Arnold”

2018/06/132018/06/12

Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Content Scraper Open Source

Amazon Scraper Short honk: Want to scrape Amazon content? Amazon has renamed a previous tool and released it as open source. Navigate to Microsoft’s GitHub and download Amz2csv. The tool performs as advertised. One question which we are pondering is, “Why is Amazon releasing this tool as open source?”

2018/06/082018/06/05

Stephen E. Arnold: Does Amazon Have ALL Facebook User Data?

Short Honk: Does Amazon Have Facebook Data? I read “Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends.” The write up mentions Amazon as a company given “access to vast amounts of its users’ personal information.” So the answer appears to be “Yes.” I assume that the NYT report is “real” news. …

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2018/05/122018/05/10

Stephen E. Arnold: Online Translation Services

Short Honk: Online Translation Services I read “Five of the Best Free Online Translators to Translate Foreign Languages.” Not a great headline, but I pulled out the list of services. Here they are with links:

2017/12/122017/12/10

Stephen E. Arnold: Cost Comparison of Machine Learning Options — Amazon Most Expensive at High End (Where CIA and DoD Reside)

Cloud Computing Resources: Cost Analysis for Machine Learning Information about the cost of performing a specific task in a cloud computing set up can be tough to get. Reliable cross platform, apples-to-apples cost analyses are even more difficult to obtain. A tip of the hat to the author of “Machine Learning Benchmarks: Hardware Providers.” The …

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2017/11/092017/11/08

Steven H. Arnold: HP Showed Russia Source Code for Pentagon’s Cyberdefense Software

HP Showed Russia Pentagons Cyberdefense Software This is a short honk to point out a startling discovery—EtherealMind.com declares, “Reuters: HP Enterprise Let Russia Scrutinize Cyberdefense System Used by Pentagon.” Citing a recent report from Reuters, writer Greg Ferro pinpoints the problem with companies that make nothing but deals:

2017/10/022017/10/02

Stephen E. Arnold: Cyber-Weapon Market Booming

Short Honk: Cyber Weapon Market In November 2017, the focus of Beyond Search and HonkinNews will change. The free information services will increase their coverage of weaponized online. A preview of the type of information we will highlight appears in “Cyber Weapon Market to Reach US$521.87 Billion by the End of 2021.

2016/07/202016/07/19

Stephen E. Arnold: Elastic Search Combines with Cassandra

Short Honk: Elassandra Just a factoid. There is now a version of Elasticsearch which is integrated with Cassandra. You can get the code for version 2.1.1-14 via Github. Just another example of the diffusion of the Elastic search system.