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   Kleptography is the study of stealing information securely and subliminally(en.wikipedia.org)

   2 points by fintler 13y ago|1 comments
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   by fintler 13y ago

   Although spark is nice, I'm also looking forward to mpi/orted integration with hadoop... "Performance: Launches ~1000x faster, runs ~10x faster" "Launch scaling: Hadoop (~N), MR+ (~logN)" "Wireup: Hadoop (
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   by fintler 13y ago

   From what I understand, this has been used in production at lanl.gov since around 2009. The first public release (using modified BSD) is today.
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   Hybridize - Minimize DRAM Waste on a Diskless Cluster(github.com)

   10 points by fintler 13y ago|1 comments
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   by fintler 13y ago

   The only person pointing out that he's sixteen years old is himself. Unless I'm missing something, there doesn't seem to be a description of hardship related to being 16 years of age.
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   High Performance Self-balancing Queue API for Go(github.com)

   1 points by fintler 13y ago|0 comments
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   A new digital signature scheme based on RSA(metzdowd.com)

   1 points by fintler 13y ago|0 comments
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   by fintler 13y ago

   I used to love the tech meetups in Philly when I was living there -- especially Philly Lambda.
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   by fintler 13y ago

   So, he took a class? I don't get the point of this.
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    Septier Accurate Location(septier.com)

    1 points by fintler 13y ago|0 comments
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    Google Petition to Reform ECPA: Tell the Government to Get a Warrant(takeaction.withgoogle.com)

    4 points by fintler 13y ago|1 comments
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    by fintler 13y ago

    I remember building something similar for a class project as part of my undergrad degree. It was basically a website where you could sign up for a virtual desktop and use the nx protocol ( https://www.nomachine.com/ ) web bro
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    Very fast Decentralized Mapping for MapReduce over RDMA(github.com)

    2 points by fintler 13y ago|0 comments
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    by fintler 13y ago

    Does anyone know of any email clients that will bump potentially negative or angry emails to the top of my inbox?
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    by fintler 13y ago

    Gen Y here. I think they answered their question halfway through. Total student debt in the US is currently about $1,134,752,535,374.00 and increasing at a rate of about $2,853.88 per second. The article title is linkbait -- any generation
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    by fintler 13y ago

    It appears to be a service hosted by Thomson Reuters: http://corporatesolutions.thomsonreuters.com/investor-relati... Many more examples (including several large companies) can be found at: https://www.google.com
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    Addressing the Threat of Silent Data Corruption(hpcwire.com)

    1 points by fintler 13y ago|0 comments
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    by fintler 13y ago

    Yes. It seems like they've been involved since at least 1996 or so (probably way earlier than that). http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-02-04/business/36862... http://www.prnewswire.com/n
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    by fintler 13y ago

    There has already been other propositions such as orbiting a small spacecraft around a large asteroid to deflect its orbit in a much more effective way over time. Any citations on why this is more effective? I don't think t
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    by fintler 13y ago

    I'm someone who's happy you put the proofs in there. As soon as I read "has no designated leader" I stopped reading and skimmed through to make sure safety and liveness proofs were in there somewhere before I spent any s
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    Hardware-independent program analysis(github.com)

    1 points by fintler 13y ago|0 comments
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    by fintler 13y ago

    Raising money to pay for my remaining tuition fees Is this just an elaborate way to get his student loans paid off? The project itself doesn't really seem practical.
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    by fintler 13y ago

    Any further donations will go towards: * Laser cutter (hobby sized): $2000 * Installed kitchen: $700 * Library shelves: $300
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    Albuquerque's Hackerspace Upgrade is Funded(indiegogo.com)

    6 points by fintler 13y ago|1 comments
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    by fintler 13y ago

    The new game page seems to break Chrome's back button.
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    by fintler 13y ago

    Personally, I liked his work when he was writing Desktop Critic articles in MacWorld -- very enjoyable, but not really technical. For example, when I received the April fools issue, I would always flip directly to the back to read his artic
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    by fintler 13y ago

    If you plan on implementing anything with libtask, take a look at the version with epoll support. https://github.com/jamwt/libtask Mongrel2 is also an excellent example of how libtask can be used. On another note, alts
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    by fintler 13y ago

    I'm not sure if I like Square Cash or MoneyDrop better. On the one hand, I can transfer funds without worrying about bank affiliation with Square. However, with MoneyDrop, I can get instant transfers. Hopefully someone combines them.
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    by fintler 13y ago

    By the way, I wouldn't contribute to government repos myself because from my observations no one takes other people's pull request or the repo just die. Many of these government repos are having problems because they're stu
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    by fintler 13y ago

    The last paper I published (IEEE for SC12) was written almost exclusively through a private Github repo. We didn't even think about using anything else -- it just worked. It helps that all of the authors were comfortable with TeX howev