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by hefeweizen 8y ago
Correct, but I'm guessing the applications probably open files at a higher abstraction than a file handle [the curse/gift of Java], so it wouldn't be hard to decouple the file handle, and allow a trigger to close the file han
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by hefeweizen 8y ago
Linux fscrypt[1] [which Android uses for user data] doesn't work like that, you don't need to mount/unmount to decrypt: if the key is evicted from the linux keyring and the page cache is cleared, the user data will not be acc
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by hefeweizen 8y ago
"We are proud to launch Pants 2.0, our custom tailored solution for all your storage problems".
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by hefeweizen 8y ago
I think the GP is pointing out that people tend to overestimate how powerful these techniques are and that using the term AI might have something to do with that. Not that it isn't impressive: it's just that we are pretty far off
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by hefeweizen 8y ago
The "bicycle of the mind" platform vs aggregator argument is a bit contrived: the author is conflating features built on top of platforms with the platform itself. Most of the examples listed (Google Photos auto-edit, Maps suggest
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by hefeweizen 8y ago
> Not so surprising after Google's recent pricing changes. Didn't that happen just a week or so ago? I don't think this can be attributed to the pricing change this early.
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by hefeweizen 8y ago
False, "Hey Siri" activates Siri on the iphone (just tried this out). So, it's not different.
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by hefeweizen 9y ago
I found the following link to be an interesting read on the topic: http://codecapsule.com/2014/10/18/implementing-a-key-value-s... The author also has a 6-part series on programming for SSDs: here's a mo
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MasterCard adds fingerprint sensors to payment cards(engadget.com)
7 points by hefeweizen 9y ago|1 comments
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by hefeweizen 9y ago
How similar is this to multi-task learning?
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by hefeweizen 10y ago
Yeah, any new machine instance has to join the Swarm (and its equivalent in kubernetes-speak). But that can be decoupled from kubernetes or docker swarm mode. As for image management, it would depend on how you would like to propagate new i
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by hefeweizen 10y ago
In the context of Docker Swarm and Kubernetes, autoscaling refers to container level scaling ie. given a set of nodes, any autoscaling function would manage the number of containers that are currently running on these nodes. For instance&#x
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by hefeweizen 10y ago
Slight nitpick, but this articles deals with "Docker Swarm mode" [1], which is different from Docker Swarm [2]. [1] https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/ [2] https://github.com/docker&#x2
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by hefeweizen 10y ago
In addition to other points against this measure, there are massive privacy implications. Loads of people could be reusing passwords or may reuse keywords for multiple passwords. A collection of such data by an organization can and will be
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by hefeweizen 10y ago
Of course, it is a fallacy to assume that leaders from STEM backgrounds may be qualitatively better than others, or even perform better for their constituents. But then again, such leaders would definitely not ignore climate change wholesal
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by hefeweizen 10y ago
VLDB '15. Previously discussed at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10207863