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by rryan 15y ago
Fair enough, thanks for the info.
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What's with these job postings on HN?
3 points by rryan 15y ago|2 comments
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by rryan 15y ago
Hadoop is hardly our only hope -- off the top of my head there is Yahoo S4 for expressing streaming topologies of large-scale data processing. There is Google's Sawzall language for efficiently 'sawing' through and aggregating stats about o
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by rryan 15y ago
Where's my pony?
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Google to offer for-pay Translate API(googlecode.blogspot.com)
145 points by rryan 15y ago|40 comments
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by rryan 15y ago
illumin8, can you please read this post and explain why you think it is wrong? http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=782.msg8625#msg8625 If you back up your wallet prior to the transaction of 1BTC, it will not receive the private keys
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by rryan 15y ago
From the forum post referenced, it appears that this is untrue. If I backup my wallet today to a thumb drive, then spend 1 BTC of my money, then my backup is worthless as it will only have the keys to an empty address. The only way to backu
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by rryan 15y ago
This is false. The block chain is a public record of every bitcoin in circulation.
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by rryan 15y ago
The total number of coins held by every BTC address are always known because it's part of the public block chain that every participant in the network holds a copy of. The guy's 8999 BTC are visible in this chain, he just doesn't have the p
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by rryan 15y ago
The links are to two different courses though -- the previous HN link is to CS598 and the High Scalability link is to CS525.
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by rryan 15y ago
I wonder when Safari will get WebRTC support?
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by rryan 15y ago
Hm, I don't think so. This post is dated May 3rd, which predates the Skype deal's announcement by 7 days. Also, the WhatWG group for RTC's mailing list was first posted to April 12, 2011. So that potentially indicates this was in the works
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by rryan 15y ago
And you make sure not to use a desktop environment, or a web browser, or an office suite, or a mail application, or a music player, or a ..
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by rryan 15y ago
Where are the confidence intervals and error bars? In order to be taken seriously when aggregating 1.8MM comments, you need those. The variability in pg's plots makes me think the data for any individual is going to be just as noisy.
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by rryan 15y ago
I contribute to Mixxx ( http://mixxx.org ) and it's our VCS. When we made the switch from SVN, we did it mainly for the very nice integration with Launchpad. Without Launchpad it wouldn't be worth the trouble. Also, it's really dog slow com
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by rryan 15y ago
That's one way to train a translation system, but that's not related to the Translate API -- I'm asking, what benefit does Google receive from usage of the API? They already have the entire Internet in their index -- it's not like they need
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by rryan 15y ago
How does using the translate API help Google? They already have the largest source of natural language text in existence (the web) -- why would they need your translation queries?
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by rryan 15y ago
For e.g. the translate API, how could they train their algorithms? There is no feedback associated with it (that I know of).
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by rryan 15y ago
Cnoöns?
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by rryan 15y ago
I thought one of the goals was for it to be fully decentralized. If I'm relying on a nameserver I trust (let's say ICANN starts running their own .bit mirror) then what's to stop ICANN from making edits to whatever they serve up as per what
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by rryan 15y ago
I think there is a scaling problem here -- every client in the network has to hold a full copy of the entire block-chain in order to know every host on the .bit TLD or to participate in acquiring and actively renewing one's domains. DNS sol
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by rryan 15y ago
Not sure about the Graph API, but your name, your profile picture, and your contact list are all fully public information and you can't control their visibility.
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by rryan 15y ago
Richard Stallman wins again -- the question usually refers to GNU/Linux not Linux. Chrome/Linux and Android/Linux already have hundreds of millions of users. GNU/Linux is still in the millions and it's still an unanswered question of how to
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by rryan 15y ago
The Google I/O keynote certainly did not imply you need external storage to work with files. Others are saying it's 16GB.
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by rryan 15y ago
Those "features" of your netbook aren't actually features (and some are even anti-features, e.g. viruses, not auto-updating) for someone like my parents, or for students at a school or employees at a business. To start, it seems this is aim
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by rryan 15y ago
FYI Schneier later admitted he had no evidence for those claims and now believes them to be untrue: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/02/more_details_o...
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by rryan 15y ago
Not only that, but Schneier posted a follow-up later that month saying that there was no evidence for what he had claimed: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/02/more_details_o...
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by rryan 15y ago
"The rumor that China used a system Google put in place to enable lawful intercepts, which I used as a news hook for this essay, has not been confirmed. At this point, I doubt that it's true." http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/02/
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by rryan 15y ago
Oops -- you're right I misread your comment. Sorry about that.
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by rryan 15y ago
Each worker can handle many thousands of concurrent connections so this isn't really an issue. This is where nginx and Apache differ. Generally you want one worker per CPU core.

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