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by timsally 14y ago
You want to read Agner Fog's article, How good is hyperthreading? , http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=6 . As an aside, Agner is one of those rare people who only writes when he has extremely valuable things to say. His entire
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One of this really interesting things I've discovered over the last year is that the government is really heterogeneous; extraordinary competence exists in many places. When you think about it, it makes perfect sense. There are talented hac
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The subtext here is that those without elite credentials are at some disadvantage because they don't have a convenient signaling mechanism of quality to prospective employers. Stipulated. But if you have the talent to compete, this disadvan
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Michael Nielsen has a series of Khan Academy style videos called Quantum computing for the determined : http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/quantum-computing-for-the-det... . Nielsen co-wrote the textbook on quantum computing and has made si
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The top rated comment on this question asserts that the reason why programmers have lower salaries is because they are logical, intelligent individuals who refuse to play the politics game and thus are hated by executives. Not only it this
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That's because a corporation does not have to commit to a certain level of production. On the other hand, the government does so all the time at the request of the people. And when you guarantee output X for whatever good/service, the notio
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For an orthogonal perspective, see grellas (writing on another article): Work-life balance is very important as well, a point the author emphasizes. He seems to have made that choice later in life (as did I) and I commend him for it. But,
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by timsally 15y ago
If you're talking about United States v. Antoine Jones, the result the Court reached is not what you describe. The Court ruled that a warrant is required to install a GPS device on a car because the act of installing the device is a seizure
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Thankfully the Justices are aware that this is an issue. The beginnings of the oral argument in US v. Jones are relevant. The Chief Justice in particular is quite conscious about the issue you describe. http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arg
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Haha yeah that paper is how I got started reversing VM based schemes. A short paper that does use symbolic execution and theorem proving is BinHunt, although it's a blatant ripoff of Halvar published 4 years later. Their only claimed contri
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It is true the techniques in the article are nothing new. However, this comment is a knee jerk reaction and largely misleading. The notion that something being crackable is a failure is incorrect. The time a protection scheme needs to hold
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What happens if someone covertly breaks the seal on a box with the intention of simply invalidating the ballots inside? In some areas, votes tend to go one way or the other depending on the time of day. You might be able to exploit this fac
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Indeed. It's actually quite amazing how impressive our federal judiciary is (two notable examples in Chicago: Posner [1] and Easterbrook). Unfortunately, the judiciary has faced a fairly serious crisis in funding over the last two decades [
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Your comment is subsumed by Hamming's point. Dressing properly does not always mean dressing "up".
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You get at an importent point. However, it is important to add Richard Hamming's orthogonal idea: "I wasn't dressing properly. I had to make the decision - was I going to assert my ego and dress the way I wanted to and have it steadily drai
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Facebook faced this exact problem with its newsfeed. The solution? Do what Facebook did. Allow people to watch projects and then subscribe to various levels of activity.
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The issue is more nuanced than the picture you present. In 1967, the Fourth Amendment was extended to areas in which a person had the "reasonable expectation of privacy" (Katz v. United States). This is well established precedent which, in
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HNers including Patrick ( http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=by%3Apatio1... ) and Matt Might ( http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=by%3Amattmi... ) have been talking about this for years now. There's a lot of bene
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We'll take it down if DHH insists! It is personally my fault for not including a credit to Highrise for the design Lesson to us: add credits Crediting someone for their property doesn't make stealing it ok. By default, stealing is wro
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Strage Horizons is a fantastic speculative fiction publication. They're considered a professional market and pay their authors at professional rates. The archives are worth checking out. Clarkesworld is another similar publication and has w
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Your analysis is simplistic. When you break up TIMSS by ethnic groups, the US performs comparably to other counties across the board (Asians, Europeans, etc). [1] There's something to be said about the differences between attempting to educ
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People are surprisingly easy to offend over email. I know that I've offended some when sober. Sometimes it's because I'm too terse. Sometimes it's because they're reading something between the lines that I didn't mean to say. Sometimes I p
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Can anyone find a copy of the paper? I haven't been able to dig one up.
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> Whether you like to admit it or not, swearing is and will be taken as a sign of disrespect or superiority. This is a simplistic analysis. Swearing is a device of language that can be used well or misused. Most of the time we can do be
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RVM, which is a standard tool to manage Ruby versions, does expose trunk: mil:~ poet$ rvm list known_strings | grep ^ruby ruby-head ruby-1.9.3-rc1 ruby-1.9.3-preview1 ruby-1.9.3-head ruby-1.9.2-p290 ruby-1.9.2-p180 ruby-1.
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MA. Cambridge and the greater Boston area. Full time. I work at MIT Lincoln Laboratory ( http://www.ll.mit.edu ), a research and development center run by MIT that does work for the government. My group has about 20 people in it and does ap
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I would imagine you're being downvoted by people who don't know what winter in Chicago is like. ^^
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I like Matt Might's take on that particular issue: http://matt.might.net/articles/crapl/ An open source license for academics has additional needs: (1) it should require that source and modifications used to validate scientific claims be
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Inspiration can be highly personal. This is the video that did it for me. "When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breath, then you'll be successful." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fsm-QbN9r8&t=20
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The branding you describe is orthogonal to what acangiano is trying to do here. When launching a minimum viable product, it's best to go with a logo from 99designs and a Wordpress/WooThemes/whatever template. Essentially a minimum level of

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