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by snaily 8y ago
Facebook, which was the use case you mentioned upthread, doesn't store 5MB images. You'd have to design for way less than 5MB, I should imagine.
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SingHealth's IT System Target of Cyberattack(moh.gov.sg)
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by snaily 8y ago
I believe the GP refers to Hungary's "Soros Law": https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/world/europe/hungary-stop... "Under the terms of a new law, helping migrants legalize their s
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by snaily 8y ago
If you just want a primer on how to think about adding search to a product, this piece by Max Grigorev is a great starting point: https://medium.com/startup-grind/what-every-software-enginee... It's ostensibly for
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by snaily 8y ago
Just looked up an example to compare: Östertälje-Uppsala C, a large part of a Stockholm commuter train line, is 102 km long, and takes 1:32h for an average speed of 66km/h, or 41mph, below the 45mph quoted in the article. The accelerat
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by snaily 8y ago
Agreed, especially since I (the GP) thought about this the wrong way - _Apple_ has chosen to use bubble sort as a compatibility measure for some Microsoft apps, not the other way around.
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by snaily 8y ago
I suppose Excel data is often almost sorted with a few new additions, which makes bubble sort an arguably better choice?
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by snaily 8y ago
Except that at least of the source material for Disney classics was based on public domain sources that was younger than Mickey Mouse is today. Pinocchio (the book) was released in 1883,and thus only 73 years at the time of the Disney movie
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by snaily 8y ago
For corporate VCs, s/LPs/board/
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by snaily 9y ago
The way I've had teams stay sane in the face of old versions is to always reimplement v1 as a facade to v2, while keeping the same interface. Otherwise the amount of running code and code paths becomes a quagmire.
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by snaily 9y ago
Though impractical to implement, this is an interesting thought experiment. What if the autonomous driving system has a "chaos monkey" that required intervention by the trainer every so often? Note that we already do this to keep
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by snaily 9y ago
I think you're describing SAE level 4, while the parent is arguing for level 3 being unsafe. Level 3 means the user has to take over from an active driving situation within a pre-specified time period, whereas level 4 means the car wil
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by snaily 9y ago
Also known as the "Level 3 is inherently unsafe" argument. Waymo noticed this back in 2012: https://driverless.wonderhowto.com/news/waymo-was-right-why-...
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by snaily 9y ago
You may want to read up on Singapore's Central Provident Fund system, as a real-life implementation of something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Provident_Fund
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by snaily 9y ago
Check out how Dropbox does it: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/08/fast-and-accurate-doc...
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by snaily 9y ago
At some point, git status started showing the commands for moving changes in and out of the index, and it is an amazing timesaver for me.
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by snaily 9y ago
A helicopter can survive a complete engine out at any point during appropriately chosen flight regimes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_height%E2%80%93ve... In my layman understanding: the heuristic amounts
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by snaily 9y ago
A blog post: "Music theory for [non-music] nerds": https://eev.ee/blog/2016/09/15/music-theory-for-nerds/ Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=125
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by snaily 9y ago
If by "just work" you mean testing each constituent vertex, it'll fail. Consider the case when the needle is at the midpoint of a line between two points far away.
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by snaily 9y ago
This is surprisingly subtle as a user interaction. Imagine the first time the user asks for "pork", Alexa asks follow up questions - "what cut", "how much", etc. There is a whole taxonomy! The next time, the us
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by snaily 9y ago
The only bad thing about the Moscow metro is how loud the trains are entering and leaving the platform. When I was there, I had to cover my ears while admiring the architecture.
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by snaily 9y ago
The bottles in current PET refund programs in Sweden are recycled as raw plastic. The old 1.5L (4 SEK, ~€0.50 refund) PET bottles that existed in the 90s were refilled, though.
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by snaily 9y ago
Have you seen how quickly busy beaver functions grow with the size of the program? It'd have to be a pretty restricted system to be tractable...
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by snaily 9y ago
Nope, not in the majority's book - you need to pass a bar of topical cleverness in order to qualify as a pun. Though, anecdotally, I've seen the type of wordplay you demonstrate referred to as a pun among English speakers in South
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by snaily 9y ago
The new ones are presumably the most senior class, and would likely come with rights such as liquidation preferences that would make them have a higher expected value (in the eyes of Softback).
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by snaily 9y ago
$0.60 for 380MB seems unreasonable, though. I think the GP was calculating based on the quarterly period.
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by snaily 9y ago
Double stealth mode: no one knows what we're building, and neither do we https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166183
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by snaily 9y ago
HTTP keepalive should get you much of the same benefit, though? The major improvement comes from fewer headers sent over websockets?
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by snaily 9y ago
There is a verification process: Only institutions capable of doing proper KYC can hand out BankIDs.
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by snaily 9y ago
A similar idea (Custard-Filled Speed Bumps) dates from 2001 at the Half Bakery: http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Custard-Filled_20Speed_20Bump... - are there any earlier sightings?

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