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by sseth 8y ago
Let's ask a question : How did Google defeat another giant - Microsoft - in 2 major markets where Microsoft had a head start and deep pockets? How did Chrome beat IE, and how did Android beat the several generations of Windows Mobile a
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by sseth 8y ago
At least i have found it limiting when I want have a mix of languages, and i am forced to have all the go packages in the root folder or live with strange package names. Hate is used a bit too often for my liking - nuisance would be more
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by sseth 8y ago
Later in the article ... "the White House later conceded that they hung the banner but still insists it had been done at the request of the crew members" He stood in front of a banner put up by the White House saying "Mission
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by sseth 8y ago
Perhaps instead of replacing the call center itself, it could eliminate long IVR sequences, gather better and more pertinent data from the customer and make the humans on either side more productive. As an example, in India you are often as
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by sseth 8y ago
Is there an equivalent index where the icosahedron vertices are over land and not sea (at least for the most part)? I presume for marine requirements, such an index would reduce distortion over sea?
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by sseth 8y ago
Actually both are true. Google (or earlier search engines) did work on basis of keywords. The ability to handle full sentences well came much later in one of google's major search updates - I think Hummingbird which came out in 2013.
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by sseth 8y ago
Google has dropped hints on how it may use Duplex in the way you say - reservations are just a way to train it. An example is to get better data on businesses in Google Maps by calling up businesses to see if they are open or closed on cert
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by sseth 8y ago
Kubernetes, CGroups (for containers) VP9, VP10 codecs
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by sseth 8y ago
They are working "properly". Living on the edge of what the law allows and sometimes going over it is a feature, not a bug, unfortunately.
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by sseth 8y ago
I was not clear. If you say vgo get B@latest in A, you will get the correct version of C. If you do not pull in the latest version of B, you would not get that. The thing I like about this is that for many transitive dependencies such as C,
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by sseth 8y ago
The key here is that Cargo ignores the lock files of the dependency, while vgo uses the go.mod files of the dependency. So, if project A uses B, which uses 1.0.27 of C, then the lock file for A is locked to that version of C. Suppose B now
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by sseth 8y ago
Most package managers ignore the lock files of the dependencies when picking up versions - they only use the lockfile of the topmost project for picking up versions. The big difference with the MVS strategy in vgo is that the dependency lis
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by sseth 8y ago
The version i like goes something like this : Any problem of abstraction (in programming) can be solved by adding a layer of indirection. Any problem of performance can be solved by removing a layer of indirection.
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by sseth 8y ago
There labs were in the market for years, using a "mix" of their own tests and also standard tests from other manufacturers. What they could not come out with was any FDA approved test of their own except for one (for herpes). The
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by sseth 8y ago
Waymo does nearly 5500 miles per disengagement, GM seems to be at about 1200 or so as per the California submissions for 2017. Of course this does not tell us the quality of the miles - it is easier to achieve a lower rate of disengagement
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by sseth 8y ago
I think war is used more in the sense of a "mission" in such cases. People see the single-mindedness, cooperation and the spirit of sacrifice that happen during a war, and wonder if why we cant bring that to bear against the other
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by sseth 9y ago
The "right to be forgotten" is always going to be fraught. We are talking of a balance between competing rights of freedom of speech and privacy, and usually such finely balanced decisions are what the judicial system is for. But
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by sseth 9y ago
I am curious about the "cryptographic hashing technique" being proposed. How does that work? Is it just a hash of the name / dob / other identifying info? Does it somehow include matching faces?
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by sseth 9y ago
I remember reading that when DeepMind was acquired by Google in 2014, they made it a precondition that an ethics committee be set up to review use of AI, and Google did back out of some projects because of it. In this case what they seem to
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by sseth 9y ago
Sorry for being out of the loop - it was night time in India, and i had gone to sleep. You are right that the title says 2003 - i looked at the scale below which ended at 1998. I was not so much doubling down, but rather talking of a slight
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by sseth 9y ago
Nukes are an instrument of last resort, but you don't want to get to the point where that is your only option. And it is possible that technical advances in missile defence may blunt this advantage. Being able to prevent friendly (and
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by sseth 9y ago
As an Indian, I hope it is the USA. At the end of the day, it has to be a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural democracy or I fear for what the world will become. And I say that even while agreeing that many military actions the US has taken in the
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by sseth 9y ago
Well "governments" already have nuclear bombs, aircraft carriers, drones and what have you. It's not some new concept. You can take it as given that regimes you will never want to live under will be putting their best people
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by sseth 9y ago
The graph you are linking to ends in 1998, when Bill Clinton was in power, the US was the sole superpower, the EU was increasing in size, China's GDP was a tenth of what it is now, and i think Boris Yeltsin was running Russia, and most
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by sseth 9y ago
Do we really want to test a theory that we can have a repeat of the 1930s when the democracies fell far behind an autocratic regime in the arms race, and again the autocratic regimes will not win? Democracies are in retreat around the world
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by sseth 9y ago
Long back when this started, OpenDNS was the largest public DNS provider. And I know at one point they started "hijacking" google requests - you can read this here : http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21284386-G
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by sseth 9y ago
It allows them to develop self driving technology without the expense of dedicated cars and paid drivers, and without any liability (because drivers take the risk).
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by sseth 9y ago
Might be worth reading this article : https://media.blackhat.com/us-13/US-13-Martin-Buying-Into-Th... It is really pointless using the count of CVEs as a measure of how vulnerable a product is.
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by sseth 9y ago
Please see : https://research.swtch.com/vgo-repro - reproducible, verifiable builds. The same thing is possible in vgo, with planned support for hashes.
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by sseth 9y ago
I believe that vgo get -u works for both direct and indirect dependencies. See the vgo tour : https://research.swtch.com/vgo-tour The indirect dependency (rsc.io/sampler - which is a dependency of rsc.io/quote), i

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