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by anonetal 11y ago
Why? It would be a major hassle otherwise when visiting cities like SF or NYC if you are not planning to rent a car (if you are, you might be carrying a car seat). I wouldn't be comfortable using a random carseat in the trunk, and in a
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by anonetal 11y ago
Yes, I did know that someone did it in 5 mins, so that helped :) I think it took me 9-10 mins in total, including testing on the provided inputs. I think I could have done it in a few mins faster 15 years ago when I competed (never made it
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by anonetal 11y ago
Not denying the rest of what you say -- these teams are scary good, but A was really simple -- lot simpler than the first problems I remember from when I coached our school's team. I just tried the brute force solution in Java, took me
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by anonetal 11y ago
"with probability 1" is a fairly standard phrasing that is equivalent to infinitesimally-small probability (e.g., a more precise statement might be: the set of oracles where the result is not true has "zero Lebesgue measure&q
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by anonetal 12y ago
I agree, and I wish the concepts here were more widely adopted. Many people seem to equate low-consistency modes (offered by Dynamo/Cassandra etc) with CAP and guaranteeing availability in presence of network partitions. In practice, n
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by anonetal 12y ago
aah... maybe a little too subtle, especially for the TL;DR folks like me.
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by anonetal 12y ago
Aurora was commercialized as Streambase Systems ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StreamBase_Systems ), and was a reasonable success as well.
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by anonetal 12y ago
Significant to massive drops in state funding is a major reason at my university (resulting in freezes, furloughs, and tuition increases over the last 5-6 years). Federal funding doesn't offset that since it can usually only be used fo
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by anonetal 12y ago
xkcd had a nice what-if on this recently ( http://what-if.xkcd.com/131/ ). He points to the way ice and water react to microwave radiation as one of the main culprits for uneven heating (of frozen stuff).
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by anonetal 12y ago
With the recent SQL-like query language, I think Cassandra comes pretty close to satisfying the requirements as well, as long as you don't require multi-key transactions.
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by anonetal 12y ago
PostgreSQL has an "array" data type ( http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/arrays.html ), as do other databases. You could use that for that purpose (I know of research prototypes that have attem
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by anonetal 12y ago
> However, with graph databases I get the best - and even better - of both of these worlds. My book entity contains a pointer to the author(s), so to query the book and their authors is even faster than a relational database. Many folks
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by anonetal 12y ago
I agree that MSR is probably the best CS industrial lab out there right now, but I think Moshe's point is that even the rest of the MSR is probably a bit wary right now given what (and how it) happened to MSR SV. I don't think HP,
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by anonetal 12y ago
It's not similar. BlinkDB builds upon the work on sampling-driven approximate SQL query processing (an early project in that space was AQUA@Bell Labs), and extends it to cloud/HDFS setting. Although some terms come up in both plac
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by anonetal 12y ago
Aside from the work on probabilistic inference, there is also many papers on "probabilistic databases" in the last 10 years (Chris did his PhD on that topic). That work has looked at SQL-style query processing over "uncertain
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by anonetal 12y ago
log*(x) = how many times you have to take a log before you get to 1, grows more slowly than any constant length sequence of logs, and also appears naturally in many theoretical algorithms (e.g., union-find). I suspect even that is not enoug
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by anonetal 12y ago
In addition to that, I think the author is also conflating "model" vs "implementation". Some of the legacy relational databases are somewhat slow, but 1 TB of data is hardly much even for something like PostgreSQL. The m
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by anonetal 12y ago
Regarding day of the week, this simple trick/observation seems surprisingly unknown (called Doomsday Rule: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule ). In any year, 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12&#x2
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by anonetal 12y ago
I think he is talking about this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8557408
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by anonetal 12y ago
As mentioned in other comments here, BOA currently supports it. I use it on a regular basis.
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by anonetal 12y ago
Yes it still requires flash. I use it on a regular basis for most of my one-off online purchases.
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by anonetal 12y ago
Phone number -- I tried a zipcode, and it asked me for a "valid phone number". I didn't try entering one.