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by 0x12 15y ago
With all the 1000x time speedups that IBM releases I'm amazed that we have to wait for computers at all, no matter what the task. I really wished that these announcements would be at least accompanied by working prototypes showing the main
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Tell HN: the speed of HN
3 points by 0x12 15y ago|1 comments
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by 0x12 15y ago
So, you like your diesels large? Check this one out then: http://gcaptain.com/emma-maersk-engine I hope 109,000 HP is enough for you.
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Cloud-based open source project for massive-scale graph analysis(goldenorbos.org)
2 points by 0x12 15y ago|0 comments
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by 0x12 15y ago
That's a fallacy of datamining. More data does not equate better algorithms, it equates more false positives. As an extreme example, imagine using just random data. Any pattern you look for will occur sooner or later in pure random data. Th
576.
by 0x12 15y ago
snailflix.com is still free...
577.
by 0x12 15y ago
Because plenty of ISP's will block outgoing traffic on port 25.
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Drugs gangs assassinate Mexican bloggers(thinq.co.uk)
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579.
by 0x12 15y ago
That's not how it works. If that was how it worked you could go and buy a roll of carpet and a shovel just to help your case. It doesn't prove that you pre-meditated the murder but it also doesn't prove that you didn't. Premeditation goes f
580.
by 0x12 15y ago
The book mentions a number of distributed file systems but omits one that I think deserves mention: http://www.gluster.org/ Glusterfs is an interesting take on the DFS concept and it is open source.
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by 0x12 15y ago
You could get arrested if the mix of stuff you buy accidentally matches a list of ingredients on a watch list. Sometimes it doesn't even take a mix but just a single ingredient: http://consumerist.com/2009/09/grandmother-arrested-for-buyi.
582.
by 0x12 15y ago
That's a great idea, terms of services for users instead of for lawyers.
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by 0x12 15y ago
> I can guarantee you a sizeable chunk of people who were just happy with the dual plan will end up picking one or the other. But the upside for netflix is those people that end up picking both. The time to analyze this is 6 months from
584.
by 0x12 15y ago
In absolute sense (number of dollars) the pie grows and so does everybody's share in the pie. But you have to take in to account buying power as well and once you do that for lots of people their actual take drops.
585.
by 0x12 15y ago
my personal favorite, a one liner to set up an email tunnel on a non-privileged port: ssh -f username@mymailserver.com -L 2000:mymailserver.com:25 -N
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by 0x12 15y ago
You may want to read googles' terms of service for their wallet system: http://www.google.com/wallet/privacy.html I quote: "Transaction information - When you use Google Wallet to conduct a transaction, information regarding the transacti
587.
by 0x12 15y ago
google does not collect every picture you take with your android card because it does not pass through their hands.
588.
by 0x12 15y ago
In many places those are mandated by law. Even if you throw them away they still have to offer you one.
589.
by 0x12 15y ago
Those data collection agencies that work within the boundaries set by the law have absolutely nothing on me.
590.
by 0x12 15y ago
Tim did a lot more than just sourceforge: http://perdue.net/index2.php
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by 0x12 15y ago
The samples I got ("Your suggestions for a dental clinic for vampires" and a bunch of others, some of those not fit for reprinting here) do not match well with your goal of changing the world in aesthetically beautiful way. If those are use
592.
by 0x12 15y ago
The last thing I want google to have is a record of all my financial transactions.
593.
by 0x12 15y ago
crunchbase?
594.
by 0x12 15y ago
Arduino's are definitely used at the proof-of-concept stage but will never make it in to production simply because they're too expensive for that.
595.
by 0x12 15y ago
> Web development on Windows is JUST what I'm doing Surprise, there are more environments that you could do web development on and quite a few of them are a lot easier to master than the one you describe.
596.
by 0x12 15y ago
Because I'm quoting that specific word from the original text as the one that confused me. As for the differences between written/spoken English, I'm a non-native speaker/writer with plenty of experience but stuff like this will probably fo
597.
by 0x12 15y ago
Thank you.
598.
by 0x12 15y ago
Yes, I know about the decoders on video cards, I'm interested in the ones where it is 'common' (or 'usually' as the OP uses it) to see them integrated with regular CPUs in the same package but 'off die'.
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by 0x12 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2971971
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by 0x12 15y ago
If you see the language as the 'barrier' that people have to jump over in order to be accepted as smart then maybe go for something exotic. Clojure or Haskell? I'm not sure if a test like that is meaningful or not, you can narrow down the f

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