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by xiphias 11y ago
I think the problem with Haskell is that you need to be on the advanced level to be able to write a web app. Every beginner PHP coder can throw a website together, it shouldn't be harder than that in a higher level language, but it sti
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by xiphias 11y ago
Deep AI already started with deep learning, which improves exponentially every year, if you look at the performances. It already freaks me out that you can put together cheap drones+guns+self driving+better-than-human level face detection.
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by xiphias 11y ago
So to make it useful it just needs to find the pairs of people who ,,go to sleep'' at the same time
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by xiphias 11y ago
Google doesn't make that much money on research quieries. It's mostly your other queries are what enables them to sell ads.
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by xiphias 11y ago
Sounds cool, it would be good to make the paper free as well, if the code is open source. Actually it would be even better to update the Zerocash paper so that people can understand the current zcash implementation. The source code maybe op
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by xiphias 11y ago
Zerocash had a possible backdoor, which was its' biggest drawback. I don't see it mentioned on the web page, which seems like they're hiding it (it's cruital to know who we need to trust with the setup part, and whether
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by xiphias 11y ago
I hoped when linkedin writes an article for engineers, it's something novel...it could be using the mouse movement as a fingerprint (like a company that I know of does), or something else I haven't thought of....the IP address jus
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by xiphias 11y ago
TL;DR: Speed reading is just like reading a short summary, and you won't understand the whole text.
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by xiphias 11y ago
My favaurite part: "We're in a bit of a different bubble this time, the exuberance now has a foundation" as measured by market size and sales potential, he says. Sure, it's always different this time for a CEO who needs
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by xiphias 11y ago
What is the main reason for not merging V8 and ChakraCore? It's really cool that teams from the big companies can learn tricks from each other, but as far as I see the goal of Google and Microsoft here is to just advance Javascript in
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by xiphias 11y ago
,,Car innovation is continuing beyond the electric model and self-driving features -- Tesla needs to be up near the front on all of them.'' The author hasn't even read the Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan. https://w
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by xiphias 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9930929
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by xiphias 11y ago
Ads aren't bad by themselves. Annoying ads that take my time and focus away are bad (for example video ads are mostly annoying as they always take my time away even if it's just a few seconds)
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by xiphias 11y ago
I already have. It's called code review.
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by xiphias 11y ago
It seems d3 would be easier to use if d3(...) would be an alias to d3.selectAll(...)
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by xiphias 11y ago
The blocksize debate asks the wrong question: not whether the blocksize should be increased, but more like what are the steps to do to make sure that the blocksize increase is as safe as possible: decreasing the header sizes, improving DOS
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by xiphias 11y ago
I tried to be as factual as possible when writing my interview feedback. I wasn't on the interview committee, so you can rest assured that I wasn't in deciding position :)
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by xiphias 11y ago
Actually from the design and speed of git, I think Linus knows a lot about data structures to be good at ACM. Don Knuth: the same, he goes to instruction level speed in his books..is that really general design? Did you really read his books
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by xiphias 11y ago
You can ask how efficient it needs to be. The interview is always a 2-way conversation. For example you can tell that you can check whether the string size is divisible by 4/8 and use built-in CPU instructions that convert between big-
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by xiphias 11y ago
Actually my first question as an interviewer was always a for loop. Generally reversing a string in place. For some people it took the whole 45 minutes of the interview to get it done. They felt accomplished at the end. I had to wait throug
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by xiphias 11y ago
It's true..maybe 100 is enough. Still, it's an awesome tool.
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by xiphias 11y ago
Sorry, I wanted to write that I was in the interviewer's position at Google.
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by xiphias 11y ago
I was interviewing at Google, I don't know about the other companies. Paying for good engineers was never a problem. Finding engineers with good algorithmic skills is hard. So maybe the problem was not with your coding skills, but your
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by xiphias 11y ago
Also why would I work for a company that is 100% against working from home? It is just a nice perk some time.
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by xiphias 11y ago
They need to get software engineers interested to work there as well. Nothing cool has come out of yahoo. They should look at all the new cool open source projects coming out from Microsoft since the leadership change.
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by xiphias 12y ago
This is a bad idea: there was a hiring stop at the down-cycle and Google tried to cut costs while keeping all engineers. (the biggest change that I felt was that bottled mineral water was changed to ultra-clean water from the river in Zuric
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by xiphias 12y ago
Just look at Bitcoin, Ethereum, Counterparty and all the related startups around the cryptocurrency economy..decentralized EBays, currencies, stock exchanges, derivatives will rule the world economy in 6-20 years (not even talking here abou
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by xiphias 12y ago
Here's the important part: The ressl API does provide one noteworthy feature. Hostname verification. In order to make a secure TLS connection, you must do two things. Validate the certificate and its trust chain. Then verify that the h
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by xiphias 12y ago
It's not complete bullshit, just unusable for trading nowdays: these algorithms that found trends worked until better algorithms were used: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_analysis#Scientific_T... The resu
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by xiphias 12y ago
I can't reply to your comment for some reason, so I reply here. I bought Bitcoins more than 1 year ago. If you look at Bitcoin in terms of years, and as a long-term store of value, Bitcoin is not volatile: the value is increasing until

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