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by hosay123 14y ago
The difference between this and Mirah is that Mirah is more just a (beautiful) Java front-end: it looks like Ruby, but with just enough annotations to allow for strongly typed output. This looks a a bit more loose than that.
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by hosay123 14y ago
What is your project? At GigE line rate you have approximately 8 CPU cycles/byte at 1Ghz, which doesn't count for much on ARM
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by hosay123 14y ago
Note Ethernet is via a USB device, which limits throughput and latency, and generally increases CPU load. Hard disk connection is the same: USB only. Something like this with SATA and Ethernet on a fast bus would be awesome
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by hosay123 14y ago
(($300m / numberOfUsers) * numberOfExtremeUsers) / numberOfEngineersRequired / numberOfYearsRequired
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by hosay123 14y ago
Can you tell us a little more about what the 'ranking metadata' is, as there's not much to go on from the announcement. It's also not clear whether the data is available only for Common Crawl's operational purposes, or whether it's intended
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by hosay123 14y ago
The point worth note is that it's not an archive of downloaded pages, it's data for the Blekko equivalent of PageRank (i.e. computed relationships, not just the pages). To generate this independently would not only require access to a large
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by hosay123 14y ago
My comment was comparing security properties of customization processes of the two operating systems, not making any argument (which would require claims to disputed facts – I don't believe I made any).
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by hosay123 14y ago
Half the problem is that Linux's module interface is intentionally hobbled for non-GPL users, and in any case has no stable, versioned API. There'll probably never be something like a 'generic binary' Android, as there is Windows, that user
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by hosay123 14y ago
I've no doubt the authors of Carrier IQ would say its keylogger had nothing to do with crapware, merely being a flawed implementation of "measuring operational information in Android devices", the end effect is the same. The Windows kernel
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by hosay123 14y ago
It's painful to watch Android deal with endemic security problems that Windows began addressing over a decade ago. Note this isn't the first occurrence of crapware resulting from OS customization ending up on a few million Android devices,
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by hosay123 14y ago
> has wrong complexity Python doesn't specify the complexity of dicts, that they're "efficient" is a CPython implementation detail other runtimes happen to copy. Even a worse-than-linear time mapping that satisfies the protocol is still
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by hosay123 14y ago
Not even a hint of stress on Firefox/OSX
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by hosay123 14y ago
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.. :) HN's code is weird in places, e.g. it's possible to accidentally kill your own posts by double-clicking submit (I can't remember why it does this, but there wa
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by hosay123 14y ago
Previous discussion (perplexingly marked dead): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4904125
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by hosay123 14y ago
It's ridiculous to call this FUD in a thread about a few million Chrome instances being accidentally DoS'd by the same company. The ultimatum you describe (which is also the present reality) isn't the only possibility here. Even a simple co
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by hosay123 14y ago
I'm not sure I understand the disconnect. If I wire up a machine that produces rainbows and unicorns to a button that primarily initiates thermonuclear destruction, is the button somehow less dangerous? The simple fact is that there is a
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by hosay123 14y ago
One or two security researchers have written about it, but you can easily see it for yourself: you can remotely install anything you want via http://play.google.com/ (as can anyone with your account username and password). The protocol do
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by hosay123 14y ago
As with Play, Google itself is assumed to be perfectly trustworthy, fallibility just doesn't enter into their thinking. (As a reminder, Google literally have remote root on every Android device that has market installed. If your device is o
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by hosay123 14y ago
It's not only a case of file formats.. a few years ago one of the Linux kernel developers (Theodore Tso IIRC) made a post regarding drive behaviour under power loss, and the results were pretty insane. For example when a rotating drive fail
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by hosay123 14y ago
Interestingly the bug links to 163267, which is marked private (i.e. a security issue). I've had more downtime out of Google in the past few years than I ever did out of my Yahoo mailbox.
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by hosay123 14y ago
Hyperthreading works by duplicating just enough circuitry to allow use of CPU resources for a thread while another is stalled on a load, nothing more. No "5 cores" about it, it's simply a hardware assisted scheduling trick.
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by hosay123 14y ago
In order to draw some boxes it (and many like it) require upwards of 10 heap allocations along with gobs of animation and sugar per 4 straight lines rendered on a 2D canvas, the result being they're useless for rendering actually large data
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by hosay123 14y ago
These libraries all look so very pretty, but with the exception of dygraphs, explode horribly given anything but the most superficial of data sets. Speedy fetching/rendering/interaction of 10,000 samples for a handful of variables is always
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by hosay123 14y ago
Context is that Google says it impacts profit^W^W^W it's evil, so it must be. Because hey, standardizing what every government is doing already must be evil.
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by hosay123 14y ago
It's great, and I absolutely love how I can independently host Google Play and Chrome Store.. oh wait a second.
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by hosay123 14y ago
At what point do people start believing that Google has a strong interest in carving out its own proprietary ecosystem, all their openness "plays" always lead to the same thing: some rhetorical platform used only to advance their private ag
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by hosay123 14y ago
These numbers are intentionally deceptive and sensationalized without more information – at the very least standard deviation, without which it's unclear whether "Firefox gained 0.45%" means "unchanged, so far as our sampling accuracy allow
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by hosay123 14y ago
Apple clearly don't believe the marginal profit hit involved in appealing to nerds is required to maintain their market position. I do hope they're wrong. I realize many nerds are quite comfortable with the commoditization of computing eq
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by hosay123 14y ago
> certain classes of As commented below, Bloomberg mentions it in his autobiography.
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by hosay123 14y ago
Not quite everywhere. When you have enough traffic, the load spikes resulting from putting cache generation in the user path becomes seriously painful, so often a separate process is responsible instead. (Imagine 5,000 threads all deciding

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