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by xxxyy 12y ago
Isn't this just a marketing stunt? The article contains no engineering facts, just the branding thing. I mean: I expect the "new IE" to inherit code and practices from the "old IE". Unless I'm proven otherwise.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Did you consider seeing a psychiatrist outside the school? Depression is absolutely not specific to MIT students.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
You've got a point there. However, not every modern tech-buzzed startup wins the market by rejecting privacy and playing the next Facebook. Consider Xiaomi, Uber or SpaceX good examples. Or in other words: social media is not everythin
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by xxxyy 12y ago
This thread shows the big thing that is wrong with today's HN. There is a guy presenting a list of 49 arguments against using a service that is used by one billion people globally. Some of them are pretty good, some more sucky than the
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Python uses reference counting to save on GC time. This is one of the reasons why it has GIL.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Yes, I know. This is a thought experiment, as there is really no such thing as perfectly synchronized clocks. Also despite the need for futuristic clocks the system lacks resistance to failure (no heartbeat from arbitrary node -> no tran
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Given a set of perfectly synchronized distributed clocks you may not even have to wait the 66ms. Incoming transactions (both local and remote) go into the write-ahead log, their ordering is given by the timestamps (which are consistent, bec
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by xxxyy 12y ago
LTE is a packet switching solution, so without traffic prioritization regular cellular voice calls could easily be trumped by a few heavy torrenters.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Could you elaborate more? I recently passed on a few US opportunities due to the H1B lottery thing and took a job in Europe instead.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
There are only 8 questions. So I believe you scored 7/8, which is pretty good imho.
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The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0)(joelonsoftware.com)
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by xxxyy 12y ago
There is a clever trick for that: a classic bash fork bomb will completely die once it gets impossible to spawn new processes. And an easy way to achieve this is to exhaust all PIDs, usually there are 32768 available. So starting enough `sl
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Every test is in an artificial setting. That is the difference between a test and real life. And if you are not willing to spend a month on learning, then don't expect to be hireable.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
I think you are rationalizing. These interviews are really not that difficult. Try going through "Cracking the coding interview", a month of practice should be enough.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
It is hard to believe that anyone would want an electroconvulsive therapy based on an Internet advice. Even if, no doctor in his right mind will perform it just because the patient demands it.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
A lot of "alternative medicine" is just not science, and simply does not work. Unless you consider being temporarily "cured" by your own endorphins as an instance of evidence based medicine.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Salary is about negotiation and leverage, not being born in a particular country, holding H1B status or having professional titles. This might have offended you, sorry for that, but it is just true.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
And here we go again with H1Bs. Let me spare the discussion and give a numbered list of options to stick with - I propose everyone just writes his number in his comment. 1) H1Bs are both good and evil. We need reform. 2) US Government sucks
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by xxxyy 12y ago
I'm a cyborg platypus, nice catch. Just two chromosomes is not enough to express all the variations of an algorithmic gender. And by the way, we also sometimes have Z's (but that's considered a racial thing, so no asking).
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Oh boy, I will maybe get flagkilled, but you are wrong: race, sex, clothing, and just about anything easily observable is used by humans to precondition the Bayesian probability of the outcome of any social interaction. I see no reason to e
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Also there is the fact that not all forms of atypical sexual development are really relevant to daily life. For example it did not surprise me that the woman described in the beginning had no idea about her chimerism - after all her sexual
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Breaking polynomially computable hashes is in NP, in the sense that its decision version - is there any word lexicographicaly smaller than w that hashes out to v - is in the NP class. Thus P=NP would give us a procedure to compute preimages
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by xxxyy 12y ago
The original paper on "memcomputing" has also been posted on HN[0], not that it is worth reading in details. But I can recommend Scott's paper "NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality"[1], the whole thing is a bri
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by xxxyy 12y ago
I guess we should feel sorry for Comcast as well. Damn this Silicon Valley, always innovating, breaking things down.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Doing arbitrage on the power network by storing energy during off-period, and releasing it during high-period is a relatively old concept (eg. [0]). What I don't see happening is the price of this battery going low enough to make this
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Isn't this just k-NN? I mean: one can reduce this problem to k-NN by first loading the database with all video frames, and then performing queries using frame 0, frame 1, etc. There are good tree algorithms[0] and implementations[1][2]
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by xxxyy 12y ago
If I were both rich and paraplegic I would like to have such a robot for myself to take me on hiking trips with friends. The noise could be an issue, but come on - these are just prototypes.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Except it is in the AI's interest to get kicked like that. This way the company that constructs robots can show how reliable they are, and as a result receive more funding. Our robot overlords will show this to their "children&quo
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Algorithm is re-usable, i.e. you can count multiple events with the same algorithm. This way you get an array of bytes, or even half-bytes, instead of an array of very long integers. Can be useful, especially for embedded systems.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Don't mean to offend anyone, but there are more issues with units in the US ;) [0] http://www.joeydevilla.com/2008/08/13/countries-that-dont-us...

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