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by tkahn6 15y ago
Oh gosh you're right. I wasn't thinking about the context in which the question was posed. Anyway, hopefully someone will find those examples interesting. NVIDIA's CUDA developer zone is chock full of great resources for GPGPU (like video l
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Calculating Viterbi paths for Hidden Markov Models is faster by an order of magnitude or two than doing it on the CPU. I worked on porting NVIDIAs OpenCL implementation to a more 'platform neutral' version for the research project I'm invol
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This looks so much fun. Wow.
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The Vice Guide to North Korea(vbs.tv)
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Clickable: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kikfikaiccdaabdi... http://i.imgur.com/LguqO.png http://i.imgur.com/WUgkT.png http://i.imgur.com/Irl06.png I'm going to post the source to github soon after I clean it up a litt
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Show HN: Show and/or highlight new and edited comments
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This is a comment I made.
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> but by doing it at sea, American authorities presumably were trying to avoid creating a shrine for his followers." This is exactly what the Israelis did with Eichmann. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann#Execution
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> Is anybody else saddened by the fact that we are in celebration of an individual's death? No. Welcome to the real world. Someone who has killed tens of thousands of people and who wanted to kill you, is dead. Be happy.
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> just videoing the parking lot is somehow an act on par with a Michael Moore muckraking job You are being disingenuous. He wasn't terminated for 'just videoing a parking lot'. He clearly stated his goals were to investigate class and r
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You should watch it. It sounds like a 9-11 conspiracy video.
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It's in their contracts IIRC. You can't talk to the press about confidential Google projects or operations. So they probably expect their software engineers to talk to their manager before giving an interview or writing a blog post for fear
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> Well actually there has not been any real need for that for years now. Really. You think OCR technology is at the point of sophistication or expense such that it would be economically beneficial for Google to deploy such technology ov
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> he was fired for using Google video equipment during working hours. Even though he'd been given explicit permission to do so. Yes they used that as a reason to fire him but that's not why they fired him.
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> No accusations were leveled It doesn't matter. That's exactly what was being implied. Google wants to prevent any legal disputes or inquiries into their operations which can be very costly. The guy is a low-level low-importance asset
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by tkahn6 15y ago
You missed the part where he kept talking about race and unequal treatment and the ScanOps people of being mostly 'people of color'. He said these things explicitly in his letter that Google Legal reviewed. That is exactly why he was fire
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Ok? The point is that Google has tiered benefits. The outrage that guards have more benefits than other people in their building makes zero sense to me.
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> to have truly 2nd class citizens, How is this any different than having guards and janitors that work odd hours? You think they get all the Google perks that software engineers get?
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They guy was clearly insinuating that Google was being racist. He kept reiterating that the ScanOps workers were people of color and mentioned it in his letter. Google did the absolutely correct thing in getting him fired. You don't want th
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This is literally one of the craziest things I have ever seen. Google is doing absolutely nothing wrong or unethical at all. The guy got fired because he started accusing Google of racism. Wow. Just wow. The sense of entitlement and self-ri
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by tkahn6 16y ago
> function applications require parens and which don't. Yes. An understanding of JS is definitely necessary when developing with CoffeeScript. The ambiguity that the parser allows sometimes leads to code generation that isn't at all wh
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by tkahn6 16y ago
The last bundle posed an interesting moral quandary for me. I didn't want to spend much money, but I also didn't want to pay below what I thought it was worth. So I ended up not buying it at all.
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Have you heard of CoffeeScript? It makes writing JS a much, much more pleasant experience.
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You know I almost specified my distribution but thought 'surely that wouldn't make a difference'. lol
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You should be piping that into bash instead of sh. With sh, it infinitely prints out [: 48: unexpected operator read: 48: Illegal option -s
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Anyone know what the time limit on the test is?
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Well then, that's odd. Thanks for clearing that up.
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Amazon gave a tech talk at my school. EC2 sprang from the problem that Amazon had to buy a bunch of servers to handle the load around the holidays and these servers went underutilized during the rest of the year. So they decided to lease th
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by tkahn6 16y ago
That's not exactly true though. Here's an example: http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Interfacing/Python
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> When I write a letter to somebody, nobody has the right to intercept the letter in transit, break its seal and examine its contents unless I am under formal, individual and prior suspicion of a specific crime. In that case, law enforc

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