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by ajays 11y ago
Meanwhile, it's perfectly OK for Netanyahu to keep threatening to bomb Iran: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/02/brief-history-... It's perfectly OK for the US/Israel to attack I
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by ajays 12y ago
> Maybe cannabis smokers smoke less frequently than cigarette smokers; but maybe they inhale the smoke deeper and hold it longer. I'm guessing it's probably because you don't have to smoke as much as tobacco. Also, anecdot
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by ajays 12y ago
We're talking about 102TB of data (6TB x 17), so a cache won't dent this figure too much (especially, given that each of those disks is one of 45 drives in the pod, which means the cache is shared across all of them). Then, each o
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by ajays 12y ago
FTA: "If one of the original data shards is unavailable, it can be re-computed from the other 16 original shards, plus one of the parity shards" So you would have to read 17x the data to recreate it. Given disk latency, network ba
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by ajays 12y ago
Maybe because the younguns today don't know what a "station wagon" is and what "tapes" are... ;-) (I jest)
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by ajays 12y ago
He's a "VP of online marketing", not a VP of UX. He wouldn't know what went wrong. MySpace had a horrible UX. You felt _dirty_ after browsing a few pages. Everything was all over the place; the form (UI) destroyed the fu
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by ajays 12y ago
The WFH policy literally impacted about 1% of the people. And of those impacted, many of them got an exemption (based on performance) and continued to WFH. It really was made out to be a much bigger deal in the media, than it really was.
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by ajays 12y ago
> in which managers were forced to put a % of employees in under performing buckets ... except other managers, of course! ;-) I'm an ex-Yahoo, and I feel that Yahoo has too many layers of management. Marissa would be well served by
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by ajays 12y ago
Are you sure it's 2000mg, and not 2000mcg? There's a 3 orders of magnitude difference!
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by ajays 12y ago
I grew up in India, and TV was very new to where we lived. But they used to put on Star Trek (TOS) on Saturday mornings, and I religiously watched the show. I soon gravitated to Spock, and consciously modeled my thinking after him: trying t
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by ajays 12y ago
This sounds intriguing. Was he given a special phone that the NSA could not intercept? The size (credit-card sized, thin) also sounds very interesting.. is it possible to build a phone like this?
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Whistleblower behind the HSBC scandal was given a special phone by the French(businessinsider.com)
7 points by ajays 12y ago|1 comments
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by ajays 12y ago
What's the point of the gondola, then, if you can't step out? If you just want to sit in a metal cabin and enjoy the view, you might as well go in a plane.
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by ajays 12y ago
This is pretty rich, coming from A123, since they stole their ideas from Professor Goodenough.
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by ajays 12y ago
> they would need to send 200 texts/hour (which is pretty easy/trivial if you are doing this full time). Context switching would take a while. You can't just reply with random phrases a-la Eliza[1] . In the article, the &q
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by ajays 12y ago
I think he has something big coming up tomorrow: http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/01/spacex-dragon-crs-5-l...
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by ajays 12y ago
Unfortunately, the chapter(s) on Deep Learning haven't even been written yet.
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by ajays 12y ago
> In reality, there is hard epidemiological data showing that selling raw milk (edit: e.g. through the normal store channels) can lead to serious harm including deaths. I'd love to see the evidence, and see it compared to other fo
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by ajays 12y ago
Oh lord, not this "break into the house" fallacy again. Your FB profile is not your house; it is just some data you have shared with FB. FB decides what to do with the data: how to share it, where to share it, when to share it, wh
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by ajays 12y ago
But they _already_ manipulate the feeds with the specific intent of increasing user engagement: to get more views, to get more ad clicks, more time spent, etc.
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by ajays 12y ago
I'm puzzled about the outrage. FB _already_ filters out updates based on some blackbox algorithm. So they tweaked the parameters of that algorithm to filter out the "happier" updates, and observed what happens. How is this un
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by ajays 12y ago
The answer, near the end: "Yahoo ... has little to lose by shutting down an also-ran competitor like Blink" There you go.
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by ajays 13y ago
Yesterday I logged in to LI after many months. Now, I've been around long enough to know not to give access to my GMail to anyone; so I've never done that. I also haven't installed the LI app on my iPhone. And yet, among the
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by ajays 13y ago
This post is next in the sequence of HN posts after a large exit: comparison with NASA's budget, cost of trip to Mars, etc. Typical sequence: - news of the large exit, submitted repeatedly - hastily written blogs about why it d
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by ajays 13y ago
I dunno... given the perpetual problems with Flash, the password leaks, etc., I wouldn't hold up Adobe as a paragon of excellence.
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by ajays 13y ago
It's all about advertising. Being able to deliver rich, full-screen stories to you implies being able to deliver rich, full-screen video ads to you. And that's where the money is.
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by ajays 13y ago
> "As an organization, they've acted within the bounds of the law and done exactly what they were supposed to do." Do you get paid to write this stuff, or do you actually believe it? It is obvious that the NSA has been cre
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by ajays 13y ago
"would you agree that wiretaps (with warrants) can be useful?" Nobody is arguing against that. What people are complaining about is, among other things, the bulk collection and retention of records; the gathering of records upto 3
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by ajays 13y ago
"Not one American has been found who has been demonstrably harmed by any NSA program." As an American, how would I know? It is against the law to read my mail; but if the government has been secretly reading my mail without my kno
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by ajays 13y ago
I've dated around on OKC since the early days. His lack of success on first dates points to a problem with him; maybe he was too picky or had some other issues which turned women off. If he was looking for that Hollywood-style instant

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