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by pavanky 12y ago
The right to be forgotten lies in a gray zone. Who is going to be the judge of what needs to be forgotten and what can stay public ?
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by pavanky 12y ago
> According to government data, the Denver city- and county-wide murder rate has dropped 52.9% since recreational marijuana use was legalized in January. This is compared to the same period last year, a time frame encompassing Jan. 1 thr
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by pavanky 12y ago
There have been 25 total successful missions for PSLV. 23 of them have been successive / consecutive. Considering that "successive" is not a word used commonly and that the fact that the number of "successive" missi
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by pavanky 12y ago
> 25th successive successful mission. You added a word. What is more impressive is the current streak of 23 successful missions going back to 1999.
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Ask HN: Help us generate a list of OpenCL supported Android Devices
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by pavanky 12y ago
> I don’t really understand why they do that. Isn’t there more than enough demand? There is. But they also want developers to work on their products. What better way to get them started than to give them away at a developer conference.
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by pavanky 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback! While the code snippet is from C++, we have language wrappers for Java, R and Fortran. We'll try to be more clear about this in our documentation.
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by pavanky 12y ago
We are getting there. In the mean time we have an example on how you can go about building one yourself. You can see it here: https://github.com/arrayfire/arrayfire_examples/blob/master/...
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by pavanky 12y ago
Hi, I am the lead engineer at ArrayFire[1]. Is there anyway I can get in touch with you ? [1] http://www.arrayfire.com/docs/index.htm
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by pavanky 12y ago
> Having to kill an app or cleaning their local cache are things I don't want to do on my phone. I haven't had to do this in a long long time. What apps were you using that required you to do this?
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by pavanky 12y ago
That is not really saying much. Depending on the domain you are in C, C++ can be (and are) much suitable candidates than Go and Rust. The simple point is the "general purpose programming language" is dead. I am not saying there a
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by pavanky 12y ago
Looking at it from the other side, if you have newer hardware Elementary OS may not work properly on your machine because it has an older kernel that may not have the drivers. If the target audience is laptop users this is definitely going
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by pavanky 12y ago
> Chrome is proprietary Use chromium instead. > the company that employs this guy: http://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/84829703425/r Mozilla employs someone who is (was?) anti-gay marriage.
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by pavanky 12y ago
The cloned repo is ~238mb. I can't help but think some of it is not necessary.
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by pavanky 12y ago
First result on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvsxnOg0bJY
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by pavanky 12y ago
If you are getting products / services for free you have no right to demand that of them. Simply stop using facebook or any other social networking site for that matter.
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by pavanky 13y ago
Are there any articles about Sergey's role in the company ? There have been a few since Larry took over as CEO, and I feel this article greatly downplays Sergey's role.
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by pavanky 13y ago
> it's starting to be assumed that systemd is the only init system that anybody will use. You can still use Windows, OSX or FreeBSD.
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by pavanky 13y ago
They have / had an explanation about what needs to be done on their home page. Their news bulletins and their wiki are as important as the distribution itself.
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by pavanky 13y ago
It is the same on Fedora and Arch. But you can visualize it as an svg. It says so right at the bottom when you run the command. > -- Try a shell pipeline like 'systemd-analyze dot | dot -Tsvg > systemd.svg'!
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by pavanky 13y ago
Just do > $ ls -al /etc/systemd/system and look at its contents. It is not that hard. It changed everyone's experience. Some people just hate change. Others deal with it. While it did make desktop / laptop user
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by pavanky 13y ago
I keep hearing bullshit about how systemd broke archlinux. But for the vast majority of us it did not. I had atleast 3 machines running ArchLinux at that point and had very little trouble porting all of them. Anecdotal evidence can be dism
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by pavanky 13y ago
Did you install the nvidia drivers using a binary or from the repositories ? If you have installed drivers using a binary installer, it is pretty much a given that you will break things during upgrade. This is because the system has no idea
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by pavanky 13y ago
Thanks for pointing it out. I should have known better considering that I am in the space :(
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by pavanky 13y ago
I wish Linode (or anyone else other than Amazon) provides a reasonable Plan[1] with GPUs on them. [1]: Amazon charges $2 an hour thats about $1500 a month.
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by pavanky 13y ago
Doesn't work on Linux + Chromium. Anyone else having similar issues ?
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by pavanky 13y ago
The same is still true even if you do not run a tor node.
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by pavanky 13y ago
> One way is to record the fact that from your home computer originated some Tor traffic at almost the same time the Google search took place. This either implies someone already suspects you and are monitoring you or that you are the on
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by pavanky 13y ago
India does have a lot of domestic and economic policies to bring people out of poverty. The said policies however are at the mercy of politicians who are corrupt and do not deliver. India spends 0.2% on space exploration and 12% on defence.
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by pavanky 13y ago
Sorry about the miscommunication. I meant to say India reused a lot of its own technology as well as what is available from other resources. You are right that the culture at ISRO is very utilitarian. But please do not try to generalize it

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