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by hebdo 10y ago
I doubt it is a priority. But I can certainly recommend Amazon GPU-enabled instances (~0.6$/hour/GPU, not that much actually).
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by hebdo 10y ago
I've been seriously contemplating it for about a year now: is it the time to abandon Europe and find new life elsewhere? Asking for the honest HN opinion, is the old continent already the sinking ship? On one hand it is comforting to c
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by hebdo 11y ago
Varnish cache. 1) Configured via a special DSL (Varnish Configuration language) that gets translated into C, compiled and loaded into the Varnish process via a .so. Perfect combination of expressiveness and speed. You can even inline raw C
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by hebdo 11y ago
Didn't know that, thanks for the information. I was rejected in the H1B random lottery step (sigh) after getting an offer from a grown startup in SF, and did not investigate the green card process deep enough.
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by hebdo 11y ago
You can change jobs while being on an H1B. It is commonly referred to as H1B transfer.
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by hebdo 11y ago
I'm quite sure that by writing "I'm not in the slow lane" he/she meant exactly that he/she is not from India or China.
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by hebdo 11y ago
Sorry for the choice of words, but my point was that a person armed with just a knife can still be very dangerous. The use of a gun in such a situation cannot be simply called a deadly overreaction, without going into details. Therefore I d
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by hebdo 11y ago
If you think that a knife threat should never call for a firearm response then I recommend this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xpcrDzy344
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by hebdo 11y ago
While Kolmogorov's definition of probability looks a bit spooky at first, I definitely recommend going through it at some point. Not only it feels nice, it also makes understanding probabilistic concepts easier (e.g. understanding that
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by hebdo 11y ago
Not for the first time, and perhaps not for the last time, these words are so relevant. A war that need not have been fought was about to be fought because of mutual misunderstanding, language difficulties, and mistranslations. Why di
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by hebdo 11y ago
Calling a 5% change in the Shanghai Composite index a "hard hit" is an overstatement, given what has been happening there over the last months (particularly April-September).
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by hebdo 11y ago
I've applied for H1B in the past, knowing everything one should know about it beforehand. Either my choice was idiotic, or being a slave in the US is better than being free in my home country (Poland). </irony> While I agree
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by hebdo 11y ago
I suggest you read the essay again. PG clearly writes that Jessica's way of dealing with people is by listening. And she's damn good at that. It is harder to listen when you speak, or when everybody watches your every move.
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by hebdo 11y ago
There is no special key, no special pattern that unlocks one's extraordinary performance in a given area. Some people happen to have the right combination of brains, experience, commitment, and luck. And they leave the world impressed.
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by hebdo 11y ago
Do not cat log files either: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/15101/how-to-avoid-e...
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by hebdo 11y ago
Random noise cannot be (on average) loselessly compressed, not even by 0.0000001% of the original size. To see that it is the case it is sufficient to notice that a compression algorithm is essentially a way to reorder all possible inputs,
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by hebdo 11y ago
Well, what he said is: 1) he does not like pro-marijuana lobbyists/activists ("bastards" as he calls them), 2) all of the pro-lobbyists (from his times) are Jewish, 3) he does not know why is there such a connection, 4) he pr
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by hebdo 11y ago
Serious question, however stupid, ignorant or offensive it might sound: why is the following anti-semitic? Because it was false in Nixon's times? I'm not that familiar with the history of the United States in the 70s. You know, i
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by hebdo 11y ago
Yes, that's correct. Only codeine can be considered a preform (of morphine), because it is metabolized in human livers into morphine. Having said that it's worth to remember that opiates are really very similar one to each other.
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by hebdo 11y ago
The fact that Hitler was a serious addict is true. He was also bipolar, and it is quite likely that the combination has contributed a lot to the beginning of the end of Operation Barbarossa in 1943 (through his faulty decision about not att
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by hebdo 11y ago
JFK had Addison's disease. He had to take certain "drugs", such as testosterone, for actual medical reasons. Not that I negate his usage of less medicine-approved compounds.
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by hebdo 11y ago
By saying CDOs I meant their ratings. And while, as always, nothing can be proven on Wall Street, you won't tell me that giving mortgages to unemployed people and then selling it as CDOs (or even CDOs squared!) is good.
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by hebdo 11y ago
You overestimate the damage. First, it only affects diesel engines. Second, I'm not sure that 25% of the sticker price is an adequate compensation. After all what needs to be done is these cars need to be permanently reprogrammed, and
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by hebdo 11y ago
2008 financial crisis - collateralized debt obligations. Incomparably bigger.
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by hebdo 11y ago
Volkswagen will certainly take a hit, but it is not going to collapse - the German government will bail it any time it's necessary. An ordinary German loves and cares about the national car-making industry, and quite rightfully so.
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by hebdo 11y ago
Obviously not, except for debugging. Scoring logic is most likely where the "secret sauce" of the thing they did is hidden.
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by hebdo 11y ago
A really well done take on the country's history, though in a completely different tone: http://warsawrising.eu/
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by hebdo 11y ago
I fail to see how this helps. Actual proof is more complicated, it is based on continued fractions.
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by hebdo 11y ago
> Of course, the proof for (tan(x) is irrational for rational x != 0) might be complicated It is: http://www.pi314.net/eng/lambert.php
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by hebdo 11y ago
Neat! I remember that presenting (from memory) a slightly longer proof that pi is irrational was the final question on my Analysis oral exam. It is surprising how many people know that pi is not rational, yet how non obvious is the proof. L

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