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by dasht 15y ago
There is a deep ethical problem with starting or funding airbnb, in my opinion: The fraction of people with enough sophistication and resources to be good, safe, hosts and guests is a tiny, tiny fraction of the people in the world. It is
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by dasht 15y ago
I think of social infrastructure like the prison system (including the private prison system) as like a gigantic potential well. As we build out more and more of the tools of a totalitarian fascist state embarking on a genocidal project -
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by dasht 15y ago
Their handling of that whole thing was, for me, the breaking point when I could no longer give them benefit of the doubt or any longer take them seriously.
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by dasht 15y ago
I don't have to read anything into it, I was raised in part by people who spoke that dialect. I can speak it. I can creep out people my age by using that dialect in its (creepy) nuances. I've got the grey hair to prove it and everything.
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by dasht 15y ago
A noteworthy detail of the narration is that it tells a clear story about what can be achieved by hard working "men" and "girls".
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by dasht 15y ago
That wasn't "saying no". You asked for an invitation, received one, and then withdrew. a: "Hey, good lookin'. Wanna get some coffee and maybe see if there's any chemistry between us?" b: "Hmm.... Yeah, ok. Let's go." a: "On second thought
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by dasht 16y ago
Best wishes and god speed. I'm glad you liked my comment. In terms of hooking it up to social/calendar stuff -- those also seem to me like the bright maybe-promising-if-the-thing-catches-on future, rather than 0.9 features, so to speak.
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by dasht 16y ago
It's an interesting feature but calling it a "reverse call blocker" is (a) confusing; (b) makes it sound antagonistic. In essence this thing is supposed to help you avoid forgetting when the bad vs. good times are to call someone... or to
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by dasht 16y ago
sdfsdf234982347( ^98^^^^ ((nm,mn234 !
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by dasht 16y ago
What if the input is not from a regular file?
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by dasht 16y ago
"mmap" is not a general solution for grep. It's nice when it can be used but grep must be able to grep files much to large to reasonably mmap and various kinds of streams.
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by dasht 16y ago
Mike has only given part of the answer there. GNU grep obviously is very I/O tuned. And GNU grep optimizes the special cases of constant strings and of regexps that (more or less) start with a constant string -- but there's more! GNU gre
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by dasht 16y ago
Regarding this bit: " Roll your own unbuffered input using raw system calls. / A small toy project I wrote last year was a modification of GNU grep that did the opposite -- it aggressively prefetched ahead of the file it was currently rea
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by dasht 16y ago
Back at CMU there were local-to-campus on-line bulletin boards. Eventually these became local netnews news groups. One of these was the "general" bboard for the CS department. Creativity was always valued in the department. Thus, while n
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by dasht 16y ago
Only "an Ivy" or similar has the buying power and (more importantly) social capital for such a move. (E.g., consider how the elite social network lights up if a particular journal of note insists that therefore they won't sell to Cornell.)
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by dasht 16y ago
Thank you! I've been wondering that myself. Two possibilities occur to me: (a) would one of those ignite a pocket of hydrogen? (b) what are the risks of a lost one (one winding up ditched in the equipment)?
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by dasht 16y ago
Consider the option: Choose an appropriate free software license. I would suggest AGPL v3.0 (or later). Assign all code to the company but include an escape (consult a lawyer) so that each of you has enforcement rights should the company
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by dasht 16y ago
Supposing that it is true, Apple has paid a very small amount of money and received a (comparatively) very large amount of advertising. Why, they've been well placed on HN for quite a while now, for one thing.
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by dasht 16y ago
I've felt that way, too. There is some truth to it. A lot of people who get ahead in business aren't the kind of objectionable characters you are thinking of, although they easily come off that way. A lot of people who get ahead seem to
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by dasht 16y ago
By not sharing software work that is easily shared. They love to draw from upstream but they share only those parts of their infrastructure that don't threaten scarcity.
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by dasht 16y ago
Sustaining an artificial scarcity of high quality integrated OS releases has been what RHAT has been about since the beginning. Why is this new move any surprise?
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by dasht 16y ago
A close family member of mine has a career working for libraries (mainly academic libraries). There is a great deal of angst and confusion these days about the appropriate role of libraries regarding books, cataloging, functions like provid
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by dasht 16y ago
Looking at many of the comments, I wasn't aware that HN was for personal attacks on various people.
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by dasht 16y ago
I get that its the standard but see my comment above. If you can come close to I/O saturating inputing read data at only the cost of streaming the reference near I/O saturation, that's optimal -- and I don't think you need the hair of BWT
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by dasht 16y ago
Please relax a bit, geeze! For resequencing, you have to input all of the reads and this should be a significantly larger number of bytes than the number of bytes than the number of bytes in the unindexed reference. So let's look at the
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by dasht 16y ago
Given a (not even very large) cluster, we (with the fairly brute force-ish but cleverly tuned NFA) can populate hash tables for the read-based NFA of your 2 billion needles just about as fast as you can transmit the data and give you optima
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by dasht 16y ago
Thanks. That's interesting. I'm pretty confident that you don't really need to compress the reference that way. It doesn't make a lot of intuitive sense that you would, in a way: streaming over the reference can be very fast and the q
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by dasht 16y ago
I don't mean to be a turd but the proofs are kind of obvious on the face on this one. He's claiming expected linear time in the string being searched for "natural" texts and worst case O(M N). Proof of the worst case is pretty trivial by
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by dasht 16y ago
He talks a bit about how to pick the right number of successive letters to use as hash keys - which is where you can get a handle on alphabet sizes. I would guess (maybe it actually says) that he Wikipedia dump in the benchmark was UTF-8
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by dasht 16y ago
Interesting. Note that the worst case of complexity for this algorithm is much, much worse than the worst case complexity for Boyer Moore. Do not use this algorithm carelessly. For example, if you use it in a thoughtless way in your web

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