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by ot 12y ago
I wonder if the author can invoke the freedom of satire.
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Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems(github.com)
330 points by ot 12y ago|80 comments
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Facebook Rolls Out a Tool for Testing Ads with Control Groups(wired.com)
6 points by ot 12y ago|0 comments
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Trill Moves Big Data Faster, by Orders of Magnitude(blogs.technet.com)
6 points by ot 12y ago|1 comments
785.
F8 Facebook Developer Conference(fbf8.com)
1 points by ot 12y ago|0 comments
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by ot 12y ago
I've been attending the Papers We Love SF for a few months and it has been consistently awesome. If you are in the Bay Area consider stopping by the next meetup. http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-too/
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by ot 12y ago
Computer Modern, designed by Knuth, is the default font in Tex. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern
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by ot 12y ago
Do we really need to have this comment for any submission that mentions compression?
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by ot 12y ago
This looks very interesting. Before everybody starts making the obvious comparisons, note that this is from the same guy that made LZ4, and he is someone who clearly knows what he's doing. I've been following his work for some tim
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Predicting the Next App That You Are Going to Use(labs.yahoo.com)
2 points by ot 12y ago|0 comments
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by ot 12y ago
There are a few things compilers can be really bad at, another is register allocation. A very interesting example is the LuaJIT2 interpreter, as explained by Mike Pall: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general&#x
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by ot 12y ago
See my other comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8906866 ) The compiler can optimize the layout of the basic blocks according to its beliefs (or hints) on the branch probabilities, but it won't move a code pat
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by ot 12y ago
There's actually a huge difference: if you use __builtin_expect the slow path is still part of the function. If the fast path is small enough, you probably want to inline the function, but the slow path makes it large enough that the c
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Why the Rules of the Road Aren’t Enough to Prevent People from Dying(fivethirtyeight.com)
2 points by ot 12y ago|0 comments
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Highlights of ISO C++14(marknelson.us)
2 points by ot 12y ago|0 comments
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by ot 12y ago
You're still comparing two different data structures. Is there a good hash table in Rust? If you use that instead of the B-tree, I would expect it to be at least as fast as Nim. B-trees are especially bad for string keys, because compa
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by ot 12y ago
> It’s mysterious that Rust’s release version with -i ran slightly faster, though. That's actually not surprising: a large fraction of time is spent in the map lookup, which in Rust is implemented as a B-tree, thus lookup time is (m
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Affordable High-Speed Broadband for All Americans [video](youtube.com)
1 points by ot 12y ago|0 comments
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SpaceX CRS-5 Launch Webcast(spacex.com)
3 points by ot 12y ago|0 comments
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Bloofi: Multidimensional Bloom Filters(arxiv.org)
2 points by ot 12y ago|0 comments
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by ot 12y ago
Missing from the list the Olivetti Programma 101 (1964) [1], of which the HP 9100 (mentioned in the post) was basically a ripoff. It was the first general-purpose programmable calculator designed to be operated by non-technical people, and
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by ot 12y ago
Moiré patterns are about superimposition of periodic patterns. This has nothing to do with it, it's just dividing an animation into scanlines and interleaving them so that the horizontal lines act as a shutter when scrolling.
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The One-second War (What Time Will You Die?)(queue.acm.org)
1 points by ot 12y ago|0 comments
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Google Foobar: A Post Mortem(jacquerie.github.io)
3 points by ot 12y ago|1 comments
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by ot 12y ago
> Taxis run "non free" software to process credit cards. "I have a credit card, but I use it as rarely as possible. Effectively, only for airline tickets, car rental, and hotel checkin — because they demand identification
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Breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence from 2014(technologyreview.com)
7 points by ot 12y ago|0 comments
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Mozilla Shumway: A Flash VM and runtime written in JavaScript(github.com)
105 points by ot 12y ago|35 comments
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by ot 12y ago
A previous submission from 5 hours ago is dead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8757053 Was it flagged? If so why? [EDIT] Looks like the user is banned
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The secret to the Uber economy is wealth inequality(qz.com)
11 points by ot 12y ago|5 comments
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Numbers Aplenty: interesting natural numbers and their properties(numbersaplenty.com)
2 points by ot 12y ago|0 comments

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