NhanH

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by NhanH 12y ago
I've been playing with some more advanced feature in postgres (lately, mostly json and jsonb related), and one of the main aspect I'm concern about is the potential pitfalls -- specifically performance pitfalls. Mostly because I f
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by NhanH 12y ago
I've been curious about the Xeon Phi. It seems like they would fit the same purpose as the GPU (especially with the Christmas sale last year that you can get a 31s1p for ~$120-170), it has more memory and similar FLOPS/price. Why
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by NhanH 12y ago
A different interpretation would be that Africa and Eastern EU was fucked up because of the current notion of country: essentially group of people should group together if they have the same identity and agree to the same code, with the cor
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by NhanH 12y ago
I think the difficulty in understanding have something to do with the way human interpret probability: it seems like frequentist is our default interpretation, and this problem is very much a Bayesian one. The host didn't pick the open
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by NhanH 12y ago
Historically speaking, most of the philosophical question never got an answer by philosophy. They just tend to become obsolete as science advances -- and I consider any question regarding strong AI to be half philosophical by nature (100% u
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by NhanH 12y ago
I'd share the same sentiment. I was really disappointed yesterday when the only comments (after 5 hours of nothing) was a seemingly snark question on the evil of HFT. And to everyone who feel the need to voice their disapproval of HFT:
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by NhanH 12y ago
I'm already running my own server hardware for personal stuffs, so I'm just hesitant to have another one (the proposition is very appealing, but I'm too lazy to maintain both at once).
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by NhanH 12y ago
I'm trying to figure out from the site, but there seems to be no info on that. Is it possible for me to host my own Portal (similar to Sandstorm)?
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by NhanH 12y ago
Everytime I'm reading the story, there is one question that I've never understood: why can't the just shutdown the servers itself? There ought to be some mechanism to do that. I mean, $400 millions is a lot of money to not ju
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by NhanH 12y ago
I looked into the laptop just last week too! But open hardware just mean that we still need some FreeBSD developers to be using it and port the linux drivers (they only make sure that it would be working on stock with linux drivers). From t
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by NhanH 12y ago
Out of curiosity, which laptop are you using right now?
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by NhanH 12y ago
Sadly, the Thinkpad X230 seems to be replaced by the newer X240 now. Any idea if it's working just as well? I probably can still get a refurbished X230 somewhere, but the screen is a bit too bad :(.
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Ask HN: Laptop for FreeBSD?
75 points by NhanH 12y ago|53 comments
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by NhanH 12y ago
Besides what arrrg said, part of the reason I used embellish is that I don't know how close it is to the fact: certainly this is the first time I've heard/read about Jobs "attended" Stanford, but I have no idea whet
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by NhanH 12y ago
"Invented the personal computer" might be a bit of a stretch to me. Apple I was one of the first (popular?), but iirc it wasn't the very first one of its kind, nor the only one at the time. But even if it was the first and on
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by NhanH 12y ago
The plan itself looks reasonable to me. It's fairly buzzword-free (comparing to the plans nowadays), but maybe the buzzword back then just became common vocabulary to us. The most interesting thing on the plan to me is the staff page:
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by NhanH 12y ago
He was outranked by the first two, you can't list a VP before the President.
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by NhanH 12y ago
In a sense, the "one thing" that JIRA does really well is being bloated (and through fulfilling the check box process). And I'm only half joking. I mean, have anyone ever successfully been productive at using the thing? To me
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by NhanH 12y ago
I've always wondered about something similar: our universe (and our planet) is good for sustaining this specific type of life. But it doesn't mean there won't be any other type of life out there that could have been sustai
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by NhanH 12y ago
> Sadly, ethical red tape won't allow a mass exodus to other stars - as the stock market would inevitably plunge, and there would be chaos. What ethical red tape are you referring too? Because I can't quite think of any. And do
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by NhanH 12y ago
Which method are you referring to when you said "I used to keep a diary this way"? An air gap computer?
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by NhanH 12y ago
I agree that the issue about hoarding is true. In my context, I'm actually thinking about more of a personal system that happens to have journal as part of it (and to do list, and personal knowledge etc.). Partly a reason why I think t
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by NhanH 12y ago
"The government" is not a single entity. I'd prefer to secure it from "The government", except the very high end of the agency. There is alot of difference between being a target like DPR of Silkroad, and having yo
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by NhanH 12y ago
What are the potential replacements for TrueCrypt? Last time the topic showed up on HN, there doesn't seem to be anything that quite fit the bill
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by NhanH 12y ago
That's not true. By default (to be useful), email are expected to be read by at least one other party. Further more, since the security ability of the other party is unknown, it's expected that any email you send can be forwarded
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by NhanH 12y ago
Thanks! That's certainly an interesting conclusion. Unfortunately, I want to make a journal in the vein of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2918935 -- partly a reason why I rejected paper (limit to word, and probab
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by NhanH 12y ago
I already have a journal/note (digital) that I used to store relevant information about work, idea etc. The problem is that I want to start writing more personal note down (similar to this https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by NhanH 12y ago
I need to transfer data between the machines because I want to be able to store different type of data: it's not just "journal" in the normal sense of the word, I plan to store things that pertain to my life (ie more media ty
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Ask HN: How do I secure a personal journal?
42 points by NhanH 12y ago|60 comments
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by NhanH 12y ago
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