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by achille 12y ago
I encourage folks to watch this tech talk by HP Research Labs on the discovery of the memristor and implementation details. It goes into the gory technical details, from the low level physics to the construction of the gates, the truth tabl
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by achille 12y ago
Until leaving Oracle about a year ago, I'd been doing a lot of development in PL/SQL, which is extremely similar and compiles to the same ADA bytecode (called DIANA). Most of Oracle's E-Business Suite is written in PL/SQ
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by achille 13y ago
How dare they give you a free service, and then decide to charge for a revocation which they had said they would charge for (and is meaningless because by default all browsers ignore revocations). Unfortunately for various historical fuckup
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by achille 13y ago
You conveniently left out their next sentence "... many leading payment services allow user enumeration, including Paypal, Venmo, Square Cash, and many others..."
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by achille 13y ago
I caught amazon pulling this a while back and it was disappointing. Screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/fiPnD Notice it's the same exact item# Not logged in : $19.23 + 6.99 shipping When Logged in: $27.85 +
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by achille 13y ago
Read this in the past and there's a few things that bother me * It's impossible to simulate a universe of our current resolution, because it would take more matter than the original universe. * You can't just simulate 'o
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by achille 13y ago
Judge Alsup is incredible! You may remember he's the judge that learned to code during the Oracle v. Google trial > http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57445082-94/judge-william-a...
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by achille 13y ago
I'm surprised no one here has mentioned Bitcasa. They provide unlimited storage for $99/year, and everything is encrypted locally before being sent over the wire.
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by achille 13y ago
If anyone has not heard, Zoe's cello performances are layered (built on a loop) and absolutely awesome, definitely worth listening to.
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by achille 13y ago
I thought this was well known, the "cookie" is known as RLZ > http://blog.chromium.org/2010/06/in-open-for-rlz.html RLZ gives us the ability to accurately measure the success of marketing promotions
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by achille 13y ago
Hidden services don't require exit nodes. That's only for public websites.
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by achille 13y ago
Storage is cheap compared to engineering labour. That's a massive migration (from one DB to another), definitely not worth saving that 300gb. It's still unclear how the storage failure was related to the migration. Was the new eng
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by achille 13y ago
😡🍋
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by achille 13y ago
While this story is fiction, the author was actually investigated by Fitzgerald for possibly uncovering CIA operatives. See: http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2010/07/john-sifton-guanta... Summarized: http:&
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by achille 13y ago
21 Comments so far and none commenting the State's Secret Privilege that allows such requests to be thrown out immediately. None of these lawsuits will go anywhere. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_secrets_p
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by achille 13y ago
Actual paper: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2013/... Things to note: their "very rich household of >500k" sample size is very small: 8 households, most of the other data seems to max out at 64k. Also according
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by achille 14y ago
It's a triple store (sort of) "things" and verbs associated. Right now every article in every language has a data point, ie: population on San Francisco, and every article must be maintained individually, in the future you'll be able to ref
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by achille 14y ago
Can someone explain to me how is it possible that Sprint Relay is still running completely free without any form of authentication?
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by achille 14y ago
Some context: ARGUS was critical in winning the war in Iraq. It was the critical centerpiece of Task Force ODIN, and they set it up in hotspots to monitor 24/7. Once a roadside IED bomb was detected, they rewound the video, tracked the pers
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by achille 14y ago
Some more insightful discussion on reddit.com/r/neuro/15jlxg ... read the abstract of this a while back, and it was bilateral ablation of the nucleus accumbens, if memory serves. The nucleus accumbens, of course, is not the "pleasure cente
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by achille 14y ago
Here's a video of James Gosling showing the the Star7 PDA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg8OBYixL0 It's absolutely mindblowing what they built in one year in 1992(!). It had had a touch screen and inertial scrolling.
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by achille 14y ago
I personally found it hard to believe. This fellow seems smart, but was foolish enough to leave college and a promised job at a Bank to work at a hardware store. He did so during a social visit at his friend's family for "moral support" aga
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by achille 14y ago
Don't forget: No ability to transfer ownership to other companies. Google docs can only be transferred within a company. Documents can be shared with accounts on other companies, but the ownership stays with the creator. Ie: I can't create
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by achille 14y ago
You can't brute force if you don't know the cipher. Heres an example: Imagine a code that smartly encodes and hides spoken voice. No amount of brute force would be able to crack that.
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by achille 14y ago
Do you get referral bonuses @ Mozilla?
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by achille 14y ago
Not sure why you are concerned. A cursory look at your past experience tells me you'll have no issue finding work. Enjoy the time off for the holidays, spend some time with the kids, and start looking for work in January.
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by achille 14y ago
I agree, and the solution is simple: upvote all other stories that fit your desired HN content and leave this story unvoted. There was a paper a while back that explained how with the current algorithms, upvoting neighboring stories has lar
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by achille 14y ago
Seeing all these awesome projects makes me slightly depressed, everyone's building awesome interpreters and compilers, while I'm sitting here just working on <boring things>.
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by achille 14y ago
I just replicated the test and I can confirm the FreeBSD grep compiled on Darwin is about 30x slower. % /usr/local/bin/grep --version /usr/local/bin/grep (GNU grep) 2.14 <snip> % time find . -type f | xar
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by achille 14y ago
Tragically, the author suffers from a severe mental illness and has been banned from HN, Reddit and others.

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