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by moconnor 13y ago
So, plants able to do this have a strong evolutionary advantage over many other plant species on this planet? Nah, couldn't possibly go wrong.
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by moconnor 13y ago
I cam here to say this. It's weird to talk about performance without actually showing any performance figures. I'm all for removing old code, but if you're going to claim performance gains then why not measure those?
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by moconnor 13y ago
Extremely quick discharge is probably more interesting, for a certain kind of interest. Near-instantaneous discharge of a couple of kJ into your skin (or wedding ring) would be pretty dramatic.
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by moconnor 13y ago
By looking at the prices of a few fiction books in my collection over the period 2011-today I didn't see any evidence of the increasing price trend hinted at by the article. The tech books I looked at might do, certainly a larger sampl
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by moconnor 13y ago
An old guy collapsed on the street in front of me in London. I thought he was a drunk tramp, but my sister (who lives there) immediately stopped to check on him as did several other passers by. Turned out he was having a heart attack. Someo
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by moconnor 13y ago
Intel's Xeon Phi cards pack 240 x86 CPUs per card at very low power per core. You can run Linux on them. Soon we'll be serving web content and VMs on them. The best bang-per-watt supercomputer in the world right now is a ton of
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by moconnor 13y ago
This is a ridiculous suggestion. The NSA employs an incredible concentration of some of the smartest people in their fields to work on analysis. I am certain they don't outsource their core purpose.
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by moconnor 13y ago
The first few times I heard the term "full stack" developer it meant somebody who could understand what's going on at all levels of the call stack. That means from the kernel through C libraries, web server / JIT / high-level server langaug
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by moconnor 13y ago
In January I negotiated to reduce my hours to 27.5 a week as part of a promotion; this lets me drop my two children off at kindergarten and pick them up again at 3pm after work and let my wife take a full-time job. Looking after young child
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by moconnor 13y ago
The material in this piece appears to have been part of a BBC panorama documentary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21547542 - the BBC refer to Ben Anderson as a "BBC panorama reporter". On the other hand, in his AMA he refers t
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by moconnor 13y ago
We hire fairly regularly. After skimming the page and glancing at the screenshots - as many of your prospects will do - I was left wondering why this is any better than letting people email me their resumes and applying labels to them. If y
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by moconnor 13y ago
Without commenting directly on the fab, any codebreaking hardware could be expected to excel at computing bitcoin hashes. Perhaps more interesting is the codebreaking ability latent in the bitcoin network. That must be a tempting target for
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by moconnor 13y ago
The article's comparison is invalid - in HPC computing speed is as much about the network infrastructure as it is the raw number of cores; simulations and graph-processing require interaction between the processing elements. The scores on t
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by moconnor 13y ago
The classic "Innovator's Dilemma" attempts to address this - the idea here would be that electric cars are disruptive technology, one which otherwise good management practices more or less prevent market encumbents successfully exploiting.
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by moconnor 13y ago
Except that flying a jailbroken plane with custom software in public airspace really should be illegal. It'll lead to interesting times, if not more open ones...
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by moconnor 14y ago
This is a fascinating insight into what the DoD thinks the story is, and a frightening example of why fair trial and due process should be required to incarcerate people.
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by moconnor 14y ago
Bear in mind this can be as simple as a handful of people emailing their LISH password to support while asking if it is correct etc.
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by moconnor 14y ago
Is this sarcasm? Gun related shootings have been happening regularly in Germany. Search for "amok" in German language news sites.
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by moconnor 14y ago
For bitcoin mining you probably want to use Titan's 56k GPUs. I've run jobs at full scale on Titan, sometimes I forget it can be pretty cool to be in HPC!
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by moconnor 14y ago
I played with machine learning and HN stories a while ago. All my classifiers only managed to predict stories I would click on with around 60% accuracy. When I tried to classify stories I would click on myself on two different occasions I a
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by moconnor 14y ago
Nice to see the old maxim still holds true: "Every title phrased as a question can be answered with: no."
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by moconnor 14y ago
In this light, the surprising thing is that we don't hear about firmware bugs more often. Have manufacturers have been doing a great job of keeping things simple and exhaustively testing, driven by the fear of the losses an incident and rec
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by moconnor 14y ago
I have some datapoints here. Twice in the last five years I have spent a year working half time (German parental leave is incredible). I noticed spending a higher proportion of my time on 'overhead' - emails, code reviews etc, but my overal
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by moconnor 14y ago
So cancellations made immediately before e.g. a goal are rolled back? Otherwise that sounds exploitable, as the probability of a goal increases dramatically before the goal takes place.
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by moconnor 14y ago
I developed in a small team in a shared office for 6 years and have spent the last 6 working remotely. Half the team at Allinea are remote now - we find it easier to hire and retain great talent. I haven't seen any evidence in our commit or
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by moconnor 14y ago
If you've got C/C++ (or Fortran!) code it's pretty straightforward - I work on a profiling tool that tracks things like CPU utilization and memory contention for HPC codes ( http://www.allinea.com/products/map/ ). For single-machine program
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by moconnor 14y ago
Many people don't like sharing a car with strangers; I doubt this will change as quickly as the technology.
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by moconnor 14y ago
Several companies have high-quality mapping data. What do you think powers most sat-navs?
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by moconnor 14y ago
I couldn't help read this as "KGB uses mouthpiece organization to announce its own information warfare tools have been as advanced as Flame for years, have been targeting intelligence agencies (hello friends) and were not discovered by anyo
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by moconnor 14y ago
And then what happened to it? What did you do with it?

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