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How Better Place Came to a Bitter End(technologyreview.com)
1 points by balakk 13y ago|0 comments
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by balakk 13y ago
Holy shit. 500 megawatts? in a single missile? That seems to more than what Nimitz class carriers produce(190MW). Or am I reading this wrong?
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by balakk 13y ago
That's a rather low bar, don't you think? Haskell/ML family languages had all that and more.
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Your Body Does Not Want to Be an Interface(technologyreview.com)
2 points by balakk 13y ago|0 comments
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Machine Learning Summit 2013 - MS Research(research.microsoft.com)
2 points by balakk 13y ago|0 comments
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by balakk 14y ago
There's Windbg/SoS for the times you would need something like this. Decidedly not as pretty, but pretty effective if you know how. Channel9 has a series of videos on WinDbg for .NET developers.
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by balakk 14y ago
What would it take for somebody like Amazon or eBay to (even partially) support bitcoins? How much of a risk could it be?
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Quote of the Week: "What can C# do that F# cannot?"(blogs.msdn.com)
2 points by balakk 14y ago|0 comments
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by balakk 14y ago
The camera presumably is overhead. From that perspective, what could be a useful feature for person tracking? I am assuming it wont be that easy to pickup just numbers of their jerseys. Faces are also not easy to get from that angle. Or do
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by balakk 14y ago
I write F# on Windows for a living. However, I don't get this "give me a job" mentality as you say it - is it wrong that c# is a highly sought-after skill in the market? There's already a tremendous(but small) community behind F# . I've nev
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by balakk 14y ago
I would argue that Google has had the largest impact on information dissemination , since the invention of pen and paper. Advertising is just a means for providing comfortable livelihoods to these excellent people. There's no better place
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Why bugs don't like F#(simontylercousins.net)
3 points by balakk 14y ago|0 comments
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by balakk 14y ago
There's a new type of microphone-attachment for non-audible murmur recognition. http://library.naist.jp/dspace/bitstream/10061/7966/1/EUROSP... Another gadget to wear, but better design and miniaturization can help.
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by balakk 14y ago
Still crashes. IE10 on W764.
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F*: A Verifying ML Compiler for Distributed Programming(research.microsoft.com)
2 points by balakk 14y ago|0 comments
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by balakk 14y ago
I wonder, why doesn't Amazon venture into actual utilities business? As in making their own power plants(nuke/solar/whatever), and renting power out? I did remember reading about Bezos investing in a few energy companies, but nothing about
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by balakk 14y ago
They only do DNS-level blocking.
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Is writing torture?(newyorker.com)
1 points by balakk 14y ago|1 comments
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by balakk 14y ago
I don't know enough about Go, but Goroutines and Channels sound quite similar to F# agents and mailboxprocessor concepts, which as I understand is not quite the same as TPL. The former tackles concurrency, while the latter is about parall
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by balakk 14y ago
There were terminals on phones even a decade ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator
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When do you know if you've gone far enough?(thehindu.com)
1 points by balakk 14y ago|0 comments
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Rare photo of mushroom cloud over Hiroshima(theatlantic.com)
1 points by balakk 14y ago|0 comments
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Web Essentials - A Visual Studio extension(vswebessentials.com)
2 points by balakk 14y ago|0 comments
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Top Science Longreads of 2012(phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)
2 points by balakk 14y ago|0 comments
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by balakk 14y ago
A whole lot of glue-job VMs just became unnecessary.
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The man who saw the future(gq-magazine.co.uk)
6 points by balakk 14y ago|1 comments
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by balakk 14y ago
It's pretty different; sites like Kaggle focus on algorithmic approaches to data prediction. There's one winner for each contest; the person who applies the best algorithm and model wins.
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The half-life of facts(economist.com)
30 points by balakk 14y ago|5 comments
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by balakk 14y ago
Wow. At last, an azure-hosted site featured on HN front page.
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by balakk 14y ago
I'm inclined to think 47% of Hacker News is 37.

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