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by ntoshev 15y ago
Do you have any link describing this backdoor and the procedures to use it (grandparent's claim "without judicial oversight" is the critical bit here)? Schneier just mentions it without reference.
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by ntoshev 15y ago
I didn't exactly mean a Redis server implemented in Python instead of C... It could be that, but speaking application-specific DSL instead of generic data structure DSL.
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by ntoshev 15y ago
Redis is i/o bound, while this approach eliminates i/o and copying data from Redis to the client ;) Not sure about memory efficiency. You can use __slots__ in Python or custom data structures (e.g. blist) if you have specific needs.
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by ntoshev 15y ago
I've had an alternative Redis-like design for a while... What if you have a Python process that keeps the data in dicts and lists and Python objects as usual. These data structures get persisted to disk by forking and pickling the data as a
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by ntoshev 15y ago
I have this pet hypothesis that matching delicious tags with actual words found on the web pages will make for a killer query expansion algorithm...
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by ntoshev 16y ago
This result suggests that a limit of +4 displayed points would be equivalent to the current situation, while leaving more visual guidance about how valuable a comment is perceived to be. If you chose to do that, maybe you should color-code
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by ntoshev 16y ago
It doesn't quite work, because Steve says "you need to be more open to fixing annoyances" and Rich responds "Look what a mess would it be if we fixed everyone's annoyance!". There is a big continuum between the place Clojure is now and the
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by ntoshev 16y ago
I don't actually write object oriented (class-based or prototypal) code in Javascript, I write functional code instead and it seems to work well. Am I missing something? Any examples of "actual applications that are best modeled with protot
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by ntoshev 16y ago
I was also wondering recently why illiteracy carries social stigma, while innumeracy does not. The article asserts everyone just considers math ability to be innate, but I'm not sure this is a good explanation. Our daily life seems to rely
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by ntoshev 16y ago
> Stock price only starts to matter when a company needs access to more cash I used to think that too, but it's not true. Stock price matters for the existing shareholders, including founders and employees, who may need to cash out for
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Scaling a website and scaling a search engine are two very different things. Python websites are OK, Python search engines... well: http://whoosh.ca/blog/fools_errand
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What does it feel like to be schizophrenic?(quora.com)
10 points by ntoshev 16y ago|2 comments
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Friendster. Maybe there are lot's of others who just had technically competent competitors, so we never knew about them in the first place.
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Truth is a Model(edge.org)
1 points by ntoshev 16y ago|0 comments
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Interestingly, Chris Dixon's own Hunch has a pretty good potential for SEO with their long tail of multiple answers questions (teach-hunch-about-you), but they do not exploit it. These are user-generated questions and answers, currently hid
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Python: max((s[start:end] for start in xrange(len(s)) for end in xrange(start, len(s)) if s[start:end]==s[start:end][::-1]), key=len)
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by ntoshev 16y ago
What is the use of this question without context? You could check the ratings/stats on TED.com and pick what is most popular. Quora is slightly different demographics than general TED audience, but is this minor difference worth asking such
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by ntoshev 16y ago
It seems the canvas will be hardware-accelerated. http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.0-highlights.html Hardware-accelerated 2D graphics Android 3.0 offers a new hardware-accelerated OpenGL renderer that gives a performance boost t
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by ntoshev 16y ago
node.js is asynchronous from the ground up, Tornado is generally synchronous with the exception of http client and server. So, Tornado is less pure, but you can use any of the Python libraries as they are. Node.js is pure, even disk i/o is
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by ntoshev 16y ago
I don't know what Greplin is doing, but indexing alone doesn't imply they cache your data somewhere. Although the index contains pieces of your text, you can't reconstruct it from the inverted index alone.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
That's too far from the bike concept and way too expensive. I may try electrifying my bike, a local guy does this and it looks reasonable. You can see the pictures here: http://prodavalnik.com/sglobyavam-elektricheski-velosipedi-p... For
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by ntoshev 16y ago
It will work better for Instapaper. I use it regardless of the site formatting, maybe biased towards the longer pieces, which is a good thing.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Why do you care if you have mental illness or not? Either way, you have a bit different perspective on the world from everyone else, drugs could make you feel better, etc. Mental illness is just a label. Try talking to your close friends ab
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by ntoshev 16y ago
> And does that mean that you store those pages in your database and use your own ranking algorithm, or are you using their ranked results for a query and then rearranging them on the fly? I have looked at those search APIs and they don
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by ntoshev 16y ago
People are not used to tracking, but they will become. Web companies aren't going to stop doing it, as it is giving up enormous competitive advantage and quality of service. DDG's "not tracking you" for example means Gabriel can never off
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by ntoshev 16y ago
SEO is supposed to be StackOverflow's core competency. They are completely aware most people end up on their site via Google. The search on their own site sucks. The reason Q&A sites are so visible is that people tend to type questions
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by ntoshev 16y ago
You can redefine anybody's business to look like he is competing with anyone else. The point is, those Bing and Yahoo ads still run on Google, so maybe there is some other reason for banning some affiliates, eh?
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by ntoshev 16y ago
So a Java applet can listen on a port? Interesting, although not very practical. Adobe Flash is also supposed to support some form of p2p connections, but I don't know anything about it.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
You can't connect two browsers directly via websockets, you can only connect to a server. A browser can't serve an incoming websockets connection.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
I like the image of the self-driving car he chose as an illustration of who drives Google.

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