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by malanj 12y ago
Interesting, they claim a 5x power efficiency for FPGAs over GPUs in Monte Carlo Black-Scholes simulation. http://postimg.org/image/6o52lcgir/ I wonder if Amazon will start hosting FPGA boosted compute instances a
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by malanj 12y ago
He said he could not understand why companies would “market something expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the law.” - I guess the FBI and the NSA don't talk much?
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by malanj 12y ago
Has anyone at HN used either IBM Watson or Wolfram Alpha to build a real (commercial) app? It feels like there should be a whole wave of apps built on either of these technologies but it doesn't seem to be materialising. What is holdin
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by malanj 12y ago
This really speaks to Amazon's dominance in the space. Over the past year I've been approach by Google reps with increasingly insane offers of free hosting. This move seems to be a whole new level. I still wonder "is it worth
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by malanj 12y ago
It seems that given Andreas' move to join the startup - if his explanation is accurate and complete - the level of responsibility of the founders does increase. I've been a founder asking people to move before and I've always
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by malanj 12y ago
That seems like the market mechanism working as it should. It's a little tacky, but effectively the turkers are valuing their Stellars really low. I'm not sure it's a problem. Arguably Bitcoin was the same initially, except i
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by malanj 12y ago
I stopped coding for a few years, and recently started spending significant hours a week on coding again. The feeling is quite incredible. I had forgotten how good that high is. I do think that the author doesn't understand Flow fully.
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by malanj 12y ago
Revenue growth is pretty astounding: * 187% from 2012 to 2013 * 225% from 2011 to 2012 * 363% from 2010 to 2011
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Poll: How do you manage your passwords?
27 points by malanj 12y ago|58 comments
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by malanj 12y ago
Memorize a few passwords and use each password for more than one service
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by malanj 12y ago
Memorize different passwords for every service
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by malanj 12y ago
Write down your passwords
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by malanj 12y ago
Open source password manager (e.g. Keepass)
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by malanj 12y ago
Commercial password manager (e.g. 1Password)
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by malanj 12y ago
Hosted SSO tool (e.g. OneLogin)
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by malanj 12y ago
Java distribution is one of the biggest pains I've experienced in my development career. In all its forms, whether than be an applet, a J2SE application or J2EE enterprise deployment it always seems to be 10x harder than it should be.
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by malanj 12y ago
I've talked to many founders who seem to forget the basic "economic laws of the universe". You have to create more value (if you're feeling pessimistic, more perceived value) than you take to get something out. It's
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What Causes The Smell of Fresh-Cut Grass?(compoundchem.com)
1 points by malanj 12y ago|0 comments
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by malanj 12y ago
The whole WhatsApp acquisition touches on some of the same personal nerves that Google's acquisition of EtherPad did. It was a really great product that I used daily. At the time Google had big plans for their Wave product, and the ent
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by malanj 12y ago
I think your comment is affirming my statement implicitly. For the things you want to do with a centralised database they are very similar. Given the entirety of things you can do with a blockchain then are very different. You view email an
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by malanj 12y ago
The author is missing the fact that the world has adapted to the requirement for centralised trust. That makes it very hard to see the value of a blockchain system - you automatically think about problems and solutions within another constr
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by malanj 12y ago
It's interesting how some internet startup concepts seem to keep coming back. Website building tools have gone through a number of generations, but are still relevant now. Similarly Facebook was the second wave of social networking sit
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by malanj 12y ago
Comparing the GNP per capita of New Zealand to Australia gives some interesting results: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28gross+national+prod... The variance of the past few years (between 1:1 to 1:2) is quite
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Y Combinator Rejection Mail(pastebin.com)
3 points by malanj 12y ago|0 comments
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by malanj 12y ago
There is a hint at a job posting for their Visual Data Team here: http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/6994300 They ask for Experience in Javascript, JQuery, CSS, HTML, XML, HTML5 Experience in QGis, ArcGIS , Google
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by malanj 12y ago
That has to be one of Marissa's most public mistakes yet. She was the one who pushed very hard for Yahoo to hire him. It's interesting that a few articles I read mention that he's really smart but not good with people. I&#x27
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by malanj 12y ago
every other conversation you have will end with ‘Why aren’t your existing guys in?’. Every VC who asked me that had been someone who had approached us cold, knowing we weren’t actively raising. And yet, despite the fact that we hadn’t even
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by malanj 12y ago
What I've read about Blackberry it seems like they entered the phone war when it was at level 1 and then tried to reinvent themselves when it had reached level 10. Guys like Mike Lazaridis talk as if they didn't realise that shift
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by malanj 12y ago
I'd highly recommend that you research "Flow": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology) . There's a great book by Csíkszentmihályi on the topic also called "Flow". Basically Csíkszent
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by malanj 12y ago
Weekly digests :-) We're about 35 people split in 5 teams. On a weekly basis each team gets a "weekly update" mail containing a google document that gets created off a template doc. The weekly update contains some questions t

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