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by sounds 10y ago
Launch insurance is also included, and for a very good reason.
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by sounds 11y ago
But that's the trick, when would employees of a mega-org leave as a group, even in small numbers? I can only see it happening in a layoff or after the shares vest from an acqui-hire. Neither scenario is a recipe for picking up a strong
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by sounds 11y ago
Number of employees as a metric for dysfunction? Why not number of court injunctions? Number of union strikes? I mean, if we're getting serious, we could write a dysfunction function, D = dysfunctional points: D = (points for threa
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by sounds 11y ago
Your laptop already has a GPU, which has more cores than that. Let's take the segment of the market with an NVidia GPU. They have CUDA, one of the most polished development environments for GPGPU today. When was the last time you wrote
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by sounds 11y ago
Have you considered using a Xeon since you're looking at a 4690K? You might appreciate this tip: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11455701
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by sounds 11y ago
What are the true problems? I find Jacques' concerns to be well thought out, showing that he has actually dug into the numbers. However, I'm interested to know what you see are even more significant problems.
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by sounds 11y ago
I just hope Google learns from Android (the phone) and applies "lessons learned" when they start making androids (real robots).
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by sounds 11y ago
I think Robin Murphy, Texas A&M Professor, has the right suggestion for Google. No idea if Google will actually do it. > If I were a large company with deep pockets, I would accept that robotics is what is called a ‘formative’ market
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by sounds 11y ago
At this time, CMU Sphinx or Julius are good choices, not great but worth a look.
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by sounds 11y ago
Everywhere the plane is supersonic, it emits the boom. Your question implies that the only boom is when you "go super-sonic." http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/68354/is-a-sonic-... Would a Mach
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by sounds 11y ago
Part of the surveillance side's strategy is to keep it a relatively obscure footnote until it's a done deal. Apple is making it into something a lot more mainstream. Hopefully other participants in the privacy side hopefully can c
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by sounds 11y ago
I wish I had more than one upvote for this article. Read the article. If you have the time, just watch the video.
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by sounds 11y ago
That's correct. But in this case the indifferent neighbor who insisted on putting up walls and gates was an overreaching federal government. Now they want to be able to ignore the boundaries when it suits them. They naturally will be e
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by sounds 11y ago
The article is click bait. Moore's law may slow down, but it will not be predicted in the Economist. For example, a quote from the article: "Moore’s law was never a physical law, but a self-fulfilling prophecy—a triumph of central
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by sounds 11y ago
Having worked on some code very similar to this, showing the computer's best moves would be quite artificial. Here's some thoughts as to why that is: 1. The computer can discard all its current best ideas and flip through new ones
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by sounds 11y ago
That bit where gcc unrolled the loop and renamed registers to get 2.5s, besting even the hand-optimized code, was impressive.
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by sounds 11y ago
Well, yeah, if you back it up with a 3rd party backup tool, you are trusting the 3rd party. I recommend you make a backup to your laptop, which you then encrypt manually. That way the trust model is: you trust yourself. Then you can do what
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by sounds 11y ago
The investors are aging. It seems like there's a pretty definite time horizon for the employees: are the investors "getting old"?
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by sounds 11y ago
Thanks for this! I think I'll grab one and play around with it. If you created a github repo with the python script, I could star it, or post anything I find in the eeprom etc.
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by sounds 11y ago
Can you explain your analysis, "going about it by supporting exactly the wrong lines"?
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by sounds 11y ago
So what if you're one of those new hires (or hope to be one)? I'd say keep polishing your resume. If you dropped out of school, look for a school with low tuition that isn't University of Phoenix but finish your degree. Stay
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by sounds 11y ago
Please cite a source.
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by sounds 11y ago
Don't worry too much about the actual open sourcing of it. Just push to github and forget. There will basically be two responses to the source code: either tinkerers or project managers. Tinkerers will just want to poke around the code
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by sounds 11y ago
Oh, wow! How did I miss this? If you are pushing the source on github (regardless of license, I want to avoid that rathole) just so others can learn from what you did, then where do I go to fund you?
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by sounds 11y ago
Oh, I'm totally suggesting the US is "dictator-like"--not all US citizens, but the elite. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10748229
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by sounds 11y ago
Dictator-like behavior has a polarizing effect, which is generally the precursor to large realignments (and possibly violence). On that note: please be careful! "The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through y
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by sounds 11y ago
My thoughts are that if you're not planning for an Orwellian Nanny-State who will demand access to all your private keys, you're probably not going to be able to scale up to the UK and China. HN readers will be designing business
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by sounds 11y ago
I would think Google should be more worried than Apple at this point, since Swift works on iOS but Go support in Android is second-class. In fact, there are significant efforts to run Swift on Android which places it at least on par with Go
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by sounds 11y ago
How exactly does a factual statement, "Microsoft cut off security fixes for Windows XP, except to some big users that pay exorbitantly," cause Fear, Uncertainty, or Doubt? Are you really uncertain about whether Microsoft will EOL
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by sounds 11y ago
The low-barrier-to-entry plays are getting lots of attention, while the ones that take more capital, research, a breakthrough, or all three, are also getting some attention. The article also simply states the obvious: trivial stuff "is

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