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by mayank 13y ago
This is my attempt at a guess: -- For the user, it's easier than ever to place an order. Internet connection speeds are fast, smartphones have snappy native apps, 3G is everywhere -- so you can order groceries on the ride home. You can
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by mayank 13y ago
If you'd like another dataset, I have one up available as a MySQL dump: http://mayank.lahiri.me/writing/hackernews/index.html
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by mayank 13y ago
> like "obj={a: giant_value, b: 5}" then had your closure return obj.b. I bet the "a" slot would not be GC'd, even though there's no way to reach it. It absolutely should be GC'd. To demonstrate (on nod
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by mayank 13y ago
> I'd think the "zeroth-order" assumption would be that you'd be keeping everything in that frame. Why would that be a reasonable assumption? If a variable cannot ever be referenced, it should be garbage collected. In
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by mayank 13y ago
Correct. I'm actually a little surprised that an identity statement like "str;" isn't optimized out. Edit: removing the function definition eliminates the problem, so I'd say that your diagnosis of the problem is s
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by mayank 13y ago
The point is that you can't access str from elsewhere, which is why it is surprising.
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by mayank 13y ago
TL;DR -- all closures created within a function are retained even if only one closure is ever referenced. This is really interesting, and potentially devastating for certain coding styles. I ran the code on node and the RSS does appear to b
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by mayank 13y ago
Facebook isn't a startup; I'm surprised it took 2 days to be honest. This should have been an all-out panic mode, level-1 alarm and push.
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Maxstagram Personal Edition(maxstagram.com)
1 points by mayank 13y ago|0 comments
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by mayank 13y ago
I'm an engineer at Google. Not only does this not happen, but it would probably be illegal for any employer to do this for a variety of reasons -- medical information in searches, evidence of gender, race, disabilities, etc. which coul
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by mayank 13y ago
Funny--I love Gildan t-shirts since they actually last for a good while and don't shrink.
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by mayank 13y ago
> I don't know if our behavior can really be predicted on such a fine grained level. There was a project in the MIT Media Lab something like a decade ago where they stuck about 100 graduate students with Bluetooth-enabled cellphones
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by mayank 13y ago
> Is there not something rather bizarre about the government taxing the money it's giving to you to support your studies? My PhD in the US was funded by NSF dollars, ie public money. I went to a state school. My stipend was taxed li
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by mayank 13y ago
Lots of fun things can happen if you control peering points. Putting on my tin foil hat for a minute: trivially place yourself in the middle. The client connects to you, you impersonate Google by spoofing their IP (which you can do becase y
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Technical Implications of the NSA's Prism Program(lahiri.me)
72 points by mayank 13y ago|35 comments
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by mayank 13y ago
There is an important point that is being missed, which is the main reason I haven't used Shopping Express: Google Shopping Express: schedule a window for delivery, during which you have to be at home. Amazon Prime: I pick it up at my conve
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by mayank 13y ago
I'm sure Googlers will point them to this thread, so feel free to thank them here :)
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by mayank 13y ago
Sounds like the "gold rush" going on now for RSS readers, which are easy to build and which apparently people will pay for.
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by mayank 13y ago
Naive Bayes revolutionzed spam filtering because it is incredibly easy to implement and understand, and was reasonably effective for early spam, not because it was the best model for detecting spam. There's a reason we started seeing ads fo
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by mayank 13y ago
As I indicated in my response. Your original question asked what one can do with Facebook login that one cannot with just an email address. Your friendlist is always communicated with Facebook login.
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by mayank 13y ago
He's referring to the fact that they can't spam your friends with just an email address, but can request additional permissions (which are often clicked through) to do that on facebook.
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by mayank 13y ago
Not really, basic permissions on facebook includes your friend list.
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by mayank 13y ago
No reason for ZFS in particular -- I was just unsure about how stable btrfs currently is. I haven't tried this out, but I think I might. Email's on the site in my profile if you beat me to it. :)
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by mayank 13y ago
Hmm...interesting. I don't know if this will work, but you could try storing your MongoDB database on a compressed ZFS partition. Since MongoDB uses mmap, this would have the nice side-effect of your working set remaining uncompressed, and
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by mayank 13y ago
Until they do, you could always write a thin wrapper over the client driver to gzip/gunzip non-indexed fields. Something like Google's Snappy would be well suited to that.
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by mayank 13y ago
I hope you've looked at evercookie before you go about filing patents on user tracking...
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by mayank 13y ago
I explicitly said I wasn't disagreeing with his point, just pointing out the lack of courtesy that I find endemic in rantings that are posted here. Your posting of the "hierarchy of disagreement", on the other hand, looks like classic middl
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by mayank 13y ago
The open plan is something I don't miss about working at Facebook. You look up over your monitor and see nothing but rows of harsh fluorescent lights. Opinion was definitely mixed, but I was in the camp that found the lack of quiet tiring a
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by mayank 13y ago
Good points, but what a sad level of discourse. "Dumb VC"? If you don't like the VC, or find them unprofessional, there's no reason to lose your own professionalism, certainly not to write "dear dumb VC" articles on Medium.
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by mayank 13y ago
Please do elaborate, because I happen to hold the opposite view. Decentralized systems are hard to implement: QoS, reliability, search, security, etc.

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