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by rxin 15y ago
I dogfooded Spark by writing a distributed machine learning aligner. It is tightly integrated with Scala. It obviously still has a long way to go, but it does provide some very nice properties, e.g.: - Support map-reduce style computation m
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by rxin 15y ago
This is a very strong accusation based on that quote ...
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by rxin 15y ago
The compiler could've been compromised too, as said by Ken Thompson.
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by rxin 15y ago
The binary file reader could have been compromised.
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MIT Prof: Thoughts on the Value of Peer Review in CS(joinedandserved.blogspot.com)
2 points by rxin 15y ago|0 comments
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by rxin 15y ago
I grew up in Shenzhen. Definitely down for something if in town (usually around christmas or end of summer).
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by rxin 15y ago
In most top CS schools, the teaching requirement for graduate students is minimal (e.g. you are only required to teach once or twice). This only works when the research groups are well funded and you don't need to teach to earn your living
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by rxin 16y ago
Why didn't he just use Google!? Oh... that was before the inception of Google.
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by rxin 16y ago
https://www.cloudmagic.com/ Try this. It builds a local index of your gmail messages. Instant gmail search (and also matches partial keywords like Greplin). No worry about exposing your data to a third party service.
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by rxin 16y ago
Although I agree with some of your points, Google's cluster management system is years ahead of everyone else. It just makes so much more sense for that thing to exist given the wide heterogeneous workload at Google. It is so much easier at
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Inktomi's Wild Ride - A Personal View of the Internet Bubble(youtube.com)
6 points by rxin 16y ago|0 comments
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by rxin 16y ago
I believe Bill Joy has to make the list. From wikipedia: "Some of his most notable contributions were the vi editor, NFS, and csh. Joy's prowess as a computer programmer is legendary, with an oft-told anecdote that he wrote the vi editor in
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by rxin 16y ago
For sure there is. I'd call the group of engineers "systems" hacker/engineer/programmer if they are working on work on OS, database, networking, and distributed infrastructure kernels. These type of programming requires a distinct skill set
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by rxin 16y ago
If you are interested in doing a meetup, can you please fill out this form? https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dG5sZ05nQU9... You can see the responses at https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tnlgNgAOrR69NU_N77l8...
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by rxin 16y ago
My email is reynoldx at gmail.com Can you shoot me a quick email? I will probably coordinate one with quora and hn :)
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HN Meetup in Beijing prior to Christmas?
8 points by rxin 16y ago|3 comments
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In China, Cultivating the Urge to Splurge(nytimes.com)
3 points by rxin 16y ago|0 comments
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by rxin 16y ago
This thing doesn't make sense to me. MapReduce framework is usually applied to super large data sets. Lots of researchers are working on how to minimize network IO either by increasing data locality or smarter scheduling. Transferring all o
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Why I'm staying at Harvard(matt-welsh.blogspot.com)
46 points by rxin 16y ago|9 comments
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by rxin 16y ago
Why don't you get rid of the fault-tolerance part in a filesystem system (remove recovery, remove concurrency control). You are not too far away from interacting directly with harddrives' firmwares. SQL (and RDBMS) is good for three things:
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by rxin 16y ago
Isn't this what semantic web is about?
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Being a behemoth: how Microsoft (and Apple/IBM 9 others) make their billions(arstechnica.com)
3 points by rxin 16y ago|0 comments
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Terrance Tao: Does one have to be a genius to do maths?(terrytao.wordpress.com)
4 points by rxin 16y ago|0 comments
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by rxin 16y ago
Column or row-oriented really has nothing to do NoSQL or not. I'd argue NoSQL is a bad name, and as pointed out by previous commenters, many that are involved in the argument don't even understand ACID/SQL/relational algebra.
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by rxin 16y ago
The effective lifetime of a trading algorithm is only weeks. They need to keep iterating to remain competitive.
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by rxin 16y ago
Congrats, Euwyn! The enterprise space needs some serious disruptions. Especially in the area of knowledge dissemination, it is a huge barrier to pass knowledges around in medium/large businesses. This could be very useful in unleashing the
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Making It Big in Software interviews Peter Norvig(informationweek.com)
2 points by rxin 16y ago|0 comments
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by rxin 16y ago
This is just very different mentality between thinking as a designer vs thinking as an engineer. Google in particular is a data driven company. Most decisions are made by results from experiments. Google is able to do this because the econo
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Rob Pike: Systems Software Research is Irrelevant(doc.cat-v.org)
4 points by rxin 16y ago|2 comments
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CrowdSearch: Exploiting Crowds for Image Search on Mobile Phones(lass.cs.umass.edu)
1 points by rxin 16y ago|0 comments

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