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by spartango 13y ago
Under Xen, your instance is not quite a process in the conventional sense. The Xen hypervisor lives underneath all the OSes on the host, both those allocated to customers (domUs in Xen-speak) and the one allocated to manage the customers (d
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by spartango 13y ago
Currently we don't have that much to show publicly as we're working primarily with doctors; we need to validate our technology properly before it gets anywhere near patients or the public eye. With that said, if you shoot me an em
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by spartango 13y ago
I'm so sorry to hear it. This is why we're working in cancer. We all work as fast as we can, but I've already seen too many cases with poor prognoses. The hope is that in growing this technology, we can catch cancers earlier
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by spartango 13y ago
I'm working on software that assists in cancer diagnoses. We apply a healthy serving of computer vision and a touch of machine learning to high resolution images (10Gpx) of cancer tissue. Hopefully we'll be able to make diagnosis
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by spartango 13y ago
> Safety is very important to me. In medical diagnostic imaging it’s often important to have an image as soon as possible, but that’s not the case for scanning non-living objects purely for scientific or educational interest...[I] make u
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by spartango 13y ago
Anandtech has a nice analysis of the progression of CPUs over the last 9 years: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7003/the-haswell-review-intel-... Depending on what you're doing with CPUs there have been improve
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by spartango 13y ago
Thank you for posting this. Yes, it's not fashionable to follow the updated HHS guidelines for healthy eating, but they are rooted in well-tested science. The USDA and HHS invest quite a bit into getting these guidelines right continui
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by spartango 13y ago
While my inclination is to agree with your critical view of social science research, I think picking at this example misses the point of the article. The idea that 'hivemind' discussions are drowning out 'other' viewpoin
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by spartango 13y ago
Good point, I forgot about this. I should know this actually, I built OS X Live DVDs back in the day...
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by spartango 13y ago
JRE 6 is the last JRE that Apple distributes itself via Software Update. JRE 7 comes direct from Oracle for the time being.
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by spartango 13y ago
Unfortunately, this is not possible; 10.4 was the first release of OSX that supported Intel, and 10.5 was the last to support PowerPC. Alas, you can't have a machine that was on 10.1 that can also run 10.8.. That said, you can definite
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by spartango 13y ago
Upgrading generally works great with OS X; generally the upgrade process blows away the system/OS files and leaves your stuff untouched. In the normal case, "your stuff" is well compartmentalized away from system files so stu
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by spartango 13y ago
Potentially, but I've found the 'suburbs' of San Francisco/the Bay Area are very different from suburbs in other parts of the country. Suburbs are known for being somewhat isolated, uniform, and idle; the textbook defini
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by spartango 13y ago
While you're right about office space becoming wildly expensive in Palo Alto and Mountain View, I'm unconvinced the data supports the idea that cheap office space is the driver of growth to the city. As you mention there is plen
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by spartango 13y ago
I wonder if what you're describing is that broad, or perhaps a slightly different phenomenon: A huge amount of the growth of SF's (the city proper) tech scene seems to be driven by companies staffed primarily by very young (straig
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by spartango 13y ago
I would throw this question back at the OP (and the everyone else) as "for what?" It's quite clear that languages are suited to certain tasks over others, which makes it nigh impossible to blanket characterize a language as &
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by spartango 13y ago
Sounds like a management or business consulting arrangement, except longer-term and compensated with equity. Management consulting is a fairly large industry, but there's an open debate about how effective it is, particularly for start
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by spartango 13y ago
That didn't work so well for the Nazis; between the many track and field victories of the American Jesse Owens and excellent sportsmanship of many other international athletes, Nazi supremacy was at best marginalized. Speaking of trans
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by spartango 13y ago
To be fair, most of PBS' funding does not come from the government, but instead by donations from members (via local stations). With that said, I'm glad that there are still grants going to support PBS, as their work is excellent.
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by spartango 13y ago
While an awesome company, Palantir is hardly the biggest or most prominent tech company in Palo Alto. Even though giant Sun Microsystems is gone, HP, VMWare, SAP, Lockheed and other giants remain. Loral Space Systems (by 101) is one of the
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by spartango 13y ago
I grew up in the valley, and I can tell you that in 2007 the traffic on 280 and 101 going north in the morning was much lighter than it is today. As SF tech companies have grown dramatically in the last few years, so has the traffic. The sa
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by spartango 13y ago
PiCloud is a layer of abstraction above the IaaS providers you've listed. That is to say that it gives you software infrastructure to design workflows and distribute them across the machines provided by an IaaS provider. In some ways i
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by spartango 13y ago
I do not think it makes sense for the Fellowship to supplant research at big universities, or even compete with it. Flawless these are not, but there is much good derived from academic, basic science. I do think that the Fellowship can be
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by spartango 13y ago
2012 Thiel fellow working in science here. I definitely don't see the fellowship as a substitute for a proper academic training in the sciences. A solid training is important; I have benefited greatly from my academic roots and support
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by spartango 13y ago
The article cites Cloud Market's data on AMIs, which indicate how many AMIs have been derived from the Ubuntu base AMIs, rather than actual deployment numbers. It's an interesting indicator... Having been on the inside (EC2) and s
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by spartango 13y ago
It really depends on what you value to be "worth it". If you value the end goal of becoming a professor, you'd agree the Phd is "worth it"; perhaps this provides a career-oriented perspective. But consider the other
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by spartango 13y ago
Yea, they eschew the DRM-only TPM part to store the keys in the SMC, which does a whole host of things and doesn't protect the keys. I suppose you were sufficiently vague ;) There's just an outstanding myth that Macs still use TPM
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by spartango 13y ago
OSX does have 'protected binaries', which refers to binaries that use encrypted pages[1] that require decryption via an anti-piracy kernel extension (Don't Steal Mac OS.kext). This extension can check that you're running
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by spartango 13y ago
The TPM was used briefly at the beginning of the Intel mac days, but hasn't been used since. The decryption is now done through dsmos.kext in software. http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter10/tpm/

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