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by hughw 11y ago
It's chickens*t to down vote my comment, when you could argue a fact, or explain something to me that I don't understand. My question isn't silly. I just now wrote two short programs, one in Go and one Javascript, to run a ve
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by hughw 11y ago
cf OPC (OLE for Process Control) which pretty much runs industrial measurements and control.
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by hughw 11y ago
I was surprised that they felt Node's performance was slower for computation, given the effort V8 has put into optimization. Particularly he called out "interpreted" and "dynamic-typed". But V8 compiles and optimize
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by hughw 11y ago
Gold is very dense. There are physical constraints making it difficult to transact large amounts of it. Even though humans can constrain the transaction throughput of bitcoin, bitcoins or other crypto currency, will probably, eventually, co
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by hughw 11y ago
No. The proof of work requirement constrains the money supply. It's a hard constraint. The block size constraint was never designed to constrain the money supply by constraining the number of transactions per day. It is adequately cons
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by hughw 11y ago
Several commenters here protest that the information might not be readable by any devices 50 years from now. But the application of the tech isn't a new media player. It's preserving the literature of our civilization across poten
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by hughw 11y ago
Is it possible for a human just to try all 9999 passcode combinations? Assuming the 10-failure erasure is switched off -- a bad assumption, I know. Is there an additional slowdown after a lot of failed attempts?
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by hughw 11y ago
Twitter is not a great way to interact with your real friends. It's best at connecting perfect strangers with shared interests. You cultivate and refine your followees until, any time you look at your feed, it's bound to be filled
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Flint lead crisis getting a tad overdone(usatoday.com)
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by hughw 11y ago
Any device could have its own connection to the mobile network, a la Kindle.
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by hughw 11y ago
Isn't it a feature of (some) unikernels, that you can fire one up to respond to some request, and tear it down, in milliseconds? If so, running an AWS Lambda-like service with all the isolation you get in a HVM seems desirable for some
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by hughw 11y ago
No more or less than anybody can track my bitcoin transactions, right? If I want to be anonymous, I use a new bitcoin address for each transaction.
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by hughw 11y ago
To me, the supposed benefit of using blockchain was so obvious as not to require stating: Removal of any central authority over connecting customers to service providers. And you might not want Uber tracking your travels, for example. There
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by hughw 11y ago
> "a user friendly mechanism like Docker needs to happen" Had you looked at OSv and Capstan[1]? It is just like Docker in that respect. [1] https://github.com/cloudius-systems/capstan/blob/master&
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by hughw 11y ago
That would have been as good, and inoffensive.
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by hughw 11y ago
I agree. There's a benign interpretation too -- the author might protest that it's America, and there are plenty of flim-flammers of all races. But it's insensitive, and the post could've been equally funny without invok
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by hughw 11y ago
Oh, absolutely. They are adapting.
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by hughw 11y ago
I work in the drilling data industry and have access to data as well as anecdotal observations. But there are lots of published articles e.g. [1], [2] [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/business/energy
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by hughw 11y ago
Agree, that was my point. It's not relevant to talk about their marginal cost as if you could ignore their need to balance their budget eventually.
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by hughw 11y ago
Thirty-six [1] is not "huge numbers". There are literally thousands of oil and gas companies in the US. I repeat, most are succeeding. [1] http://www.slideshare.net/MarcellusDN/haynes-and-boone-llp-o...
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by hughw 11y ago
The article ignores some realities. 1) The major OPEC producers need to recover far more than their lifting costs. Their oil revenues subsidize the rest of the economy and is their bulwark of social stability. Some estimate that Saudi Arabi
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by hughw 11y ago
That completely changes the meaning and I presume, the OP's intent in submitting the link. The original link focused on Slim's connections to the Lebanese Phalange. The new link doesn't even mention Phalange.
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by hughw 11y ago
Serendipity. This morning, in another context, I learned for the first time about E.T. Jaynes' work and downloaded a copy of his unfinished tome. And now, this afternoon, in Shalizi's review, I again see it honorably mentioned. Th
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by hughw 11y ago
I'm not a down voter, but there have been volumes written about the pros and cons of Java. Every possible corner of every possible argument has been explored ad nauseum. I'm grateful they didn't waste my time rehashing the en
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by hughw 11y ago
Using Scala, I've found the ability to pass around first class functions, and the default immutability of variables, enables me to make profound algorithmic optimizations I wouldn't undertake in C++ et al. Then, if the computation
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by hughw 11y ago
I've successfully restored several times, most recently last week. TM is a lifesaver.
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by hughw 11y ago
Yes. At the risk of over-explaining: I meant my comment as a sideways remark that Hacker News is full of hackers, many of whom believe a cool program is its own reward, whether it's needed commercially or not. I did not mean to dispara
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by hughw 11y ago
You ask "why" on a site named "Hacker News"?
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by hughw 11y ago
I second this motion. It's time to locate a more suitable work environment for yourself. The company's not going to change... and your personality's not going to change... but you can control what company you work at. Quit no
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by hughw 11y ago
I should have used scare quotes around "character building". I do recognize that lots of hardships you could impose on yourself do build character. Yet in this case, I wouldn't suppose the benefit outweighs the hardship.

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