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by ajays 14y ago
I am curious about the scalability of such an endeavor. If you have to verify the fares by hand, you need a certain minimum amount of return before it becomes worth it. For example: I live in SFO. I might want to fly down to Vegas for the w
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by ajays 14y ago
FTA: "Note however, the ElasticSearch UDF returns nearly instantly, while the FILTER is slooooooowwww… " It's just 450MB of data (in Avro format). Why should the filter be "slooooooooowwww" ?
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by ajays 14y ago
Whilst the situation in Russia is undoubtedly horrific, let's not pretend that corruption isn't endemic in the rest of the world; some counties have just legalized it to some extent. Every time there's a discussion of corruption, people m
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by ajays 14y ago
Parascript was a Russian company, but they moved en masse to Boulder in 1994 (IIRC). They are (were?) a group of very smart engineers, very strong in DSP.
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by ajays 14y ago
From the article: Kilamba was financed by a Chinese credit line - which Angola is repaying with oil - so it has technically been paid for. But if the houses go unsold, then the Angolan government will be left with stock on their hands and
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by ajays 14y ago
I prefer to read over videos. Here's the article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18646243
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by ajays 14y ago
This seems like the best explanation I've found so far: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/1/203
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Ask HN: What caused the problems with the leap second?
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by ajays 14y ago
You are a lifesaver. All morning my desktop's load has been pegged at 20. I upgraded FF, Chrome, etc. and no impact. I was dreading a full re-start, as I have lots of windows, tabs, etc. open. The above command knocked the load down to almo
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by ajays 14y ago
How about releasing some data? Do some feature generation and come up with features, along with the desired action (the best possible action, given that you know how things are going to go in the future). Then us clueless types can see what
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by ajays 14y ago
I keep hearing about HFT, and have read about it a little. But there's a surprising dearth of data. Can someone come up with a data set? For example: here are N inputs to the program. If the program can make a decision D in time T, then it
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by ajays 14y ago
I remember, in the early 90s, someone in our department sent out over 500 applications, and got nothing but rejections. He then started putting the rejection letters outside his office. The department chair politely asked him to take them d
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by ajays 14y ago
It's not like someone at Orbitz sat down, rubbed his/her hands with glee and said with an evil laugh, "ha! I will rip those Mac users off!" In all likelihood, someone used the browser type as a feature in their model. It so happens that Mac
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by ajays 14y ago
Dated: 2010/08/21 Previously on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1809346 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1624997 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1624041 Before you submit a URL to HN, try this query on Google: link:
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by ajays 14y ago
Maybe it's because it is in Apple's interest to get people pissed off at Cydia?
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by ajays 14y ago
An article that provides more background on the whole Indian drug patent stuff: http://www.medicusmundi.ch/mms/services/bulletin/bulletin200... It's about 10 years old, but still has good information for those interested.
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by ajays 14y ago
On the other hand: the rest of the world has benefited a lot from the Indian pharma industry's growth. The same companies that you're criticizing are actually subcontracted by Bayer, etc. to produce their products so they can be sold in the
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by ajays 14y ago
I just read a couple of pages, and this is a great read. "If you are mainly looking for flirting opportunities, . . . . seek out clubs full of happy, sociable under-achievers." It's pure comedy gold, Jerry! Having said that: I hate to stere
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by ajays 14y ago
Now if only you could do away with test strips. They're so expensive, if insurance doesn't cover it.
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by ajays 14y ago
That is an awesome hack! Kudos to you. It's one of those things that initially sound too hard to believe, but then you think about it and go oh yeah.... why not? Brilliant! Very well done.
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by ajays 14y ago
It's not 100PB of data; it's 100PB of physical disk space. Given the (standard) 3x replication and filesystem overhead, you're looking at about 30PB of data. Certainly a ginormous amount of data, that's for sure.
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by ajays 14y ago
Who will have control over these gTLDs? What I mean by that is: .com is controlled by the USG (indirectly). They can get a judge to take away a domain on a whim. Will that be the case with these new TLDs?
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by ajays 14y ago
It's been 2 years, but here's the gist of it: cab drivers at the airport are allowed to jump back to the head of the queue if they are gone for a short period. Is it 30 minutes, or 40? Not sure. But I was told this personally by a cab drive
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by ajays 14y ago
I have always wondered about this. In San Francisco (aka "The City"), a driver typically pays $200+ for a 12-hour shift on weekends. Then they go around in a mad dash, trying to pick up as many lucrative passengers as possible; sometimes re
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by ajays 14y ago
Yikes! That puppy nearly killed my browser (FF13, Ubuntu). // Some pages should come with warnings... <grumble>
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by ajays 14y ago
Cutting a sweetheart, loss-leader deal with AOL to replace the browser with their own? Isn't that pretty similar to what Google is doing with Firefox to the tune of a couple hundred million a year? (And something that Microsoft has been ba
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by ajays 14y ago
This "dude" has been doing this for a long time. He is famous for such images. He has a passion for such convergences. Visit his website (root of the link) for more. He also did the solar eclipse + ISS : http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/eclipse
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by ajays 14y ago
It depends on what the malware is designed to do. Cui bono, as they say. If the malware is designed to grab bank passwords or steal money, then you can assume there's a criminal enterprise behind it. But if the malware is specifically targe
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by ajays 14y ago
" At this time, we’re still unable to confirm that any security breach has occurred ..." Really? How long does it take to verify that this breach is accurate and sound an alarm?
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by ajays 14y ago
All good brute-force crackers have such substitution rules builtin.

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