silverpikezero

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by silverpikezero 9y ago
> “We’re not interested in the millions of devices of everyday citizens,” he [Comey] said in New York at Fordham University’s International Conference on Cyber Security. “We’re interested in those devices that have been used to plan or e
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by silverpikezero 9y ago
I experienced the exact same feelings as you. Until I started interviewing candidates in quantity, I had no clue how many candidates cannot complete FizzBuzz. The reported failure rates of this simple test are completely legitimate. In my o
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by silverpikezero 9y ago
> Title's probably aren't going to be given without some other political reasoning. They have to be claimed. Same goes for "Director", "Head of", and "VP" titles. Titles are rarely assigned based o
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by silverpikezero 9y ago
Tax Loss Harvesting. This is the sole reason why Betterment(/Wealthfront) is superior to Vanguard. The benefits of this technique more than offset any fees they charge.
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by silverpikezero 10y ago
I'm dismayed to see most of the advice given to you by HN is bad. I am in a very similar situation, and it has been ongoing for years. I have also been bullied for some substantial parts of my life, so I understand the power dynamic ve
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by silverpikezero 10y ago
I don't know why you are getting downvoted. Clause #2 would require the inclusion of the BSD license with any release of compiled code. This is a very serious issue with the library. Any additional licensing terms which must be propaga
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by silverpikezero 10y ago
I agree in principle that Jeremy does not deserve any proceeds of the sale, because he did not contribute to any of the valuable IP that GM wants to acquire. But there is one serious issue here I don't understand (devil's advocate
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by silverpikezero 10y ago
Or, we all stop assuming that people are here to "humblebrag", and contribute different points of view. In addition, maybe we all use terminology that is widely understood by others, since the purpose of HN is technical communicat
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by silverpikezero 10y ago
Agreed. In computer science, CSP = Tony Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes. It's one of the foundations of Go's channel based architecture.
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by silverpikezero 11y ago
It really does explain a lot though. This is why, when down the road Facebook needs to make revenue or suffer the wrath of investors, your personal life will become their cash machine. This is already true; just wait, it can get much worse
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by silverpikezero 11y ago
Not only that, but the Skype UI is totally different on every platform. I run the Windows client at home, the Linux client at work, and my boss runs the iOS client for team meetings. Each one of them has a very different look and feel, and
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by silverpikezero 11y ago
The big problem I see with this idea is that scrappy, do-whatever-it-takes people almost never write clean code, checkin cleanly, test properly, and practice good product design. I value these things more than "rugged individualism&quo
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by silverpikezero 11y ago
Startups should realize that this is a thoroughly idiotic notion, and should abandon it ASAP. The one thing that large software companies do well is SHIP PRODUCTS. A good software engineer is someone who can ship a product, even if its ill-
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by silverpikezero 11y ago
Hoare's CSP is exactly this. It's not a programming language per se, but I know of several DSL's that were built using CSP syntax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proce...
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by silverpikezero 11y ago
It's not a bogus argument. The author here is flat out incorrect. There are many bit-level resources on a modern FPGA which could be configured to both source and sink current on the same wire. Any transistors set in this mode most cer
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by silverpikezero 11y ago
The claim about RISC being a No is bizarre. RISC has definitely won, for 2 big reasons: 1. Intel redesigned their x86 processors to execute using a RISC model internally. AMD is using the same idea. A processor architecture is defined by it
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by silverpikezero 11y ago
I find your comment about CS programs a bit misplaced. Are you aware that a research team from WVU actually uncovered this emissions problem in the first place? The "VW diesel-gate" aside, I do share your feelings about the qualit
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by silverpikezero 11y ago
This would be a good time to point out that a similar auto software story found its way to HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9643204 Once Toyota's ECU code was reviewed by domain experts, they found ext
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by silverpikezero 11y ago
Your comment is grossly overstating the issue, and unnecessarily inflammatory. I have reviewed the type hints syntax, and it's not so bad. It's doubtful that anything nicer can be implemented on top of what you have clearly pointe
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by silverpikezero 11y ago
Rumor has it that Altera was unhappy with Intel's process and was going to bail. Intel was so dependent on their cooperation that acquisition started to look good.
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by silverpikezero 11y ago
You should expect this trend to continue. Semiconductors have become a hideously expensive business, aggravated by fewer fabs and more draconian fab/IP acquisition costs. It's a well known that nobody on Sand Hill road will touch
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by silverpikezero 11y ago
You forgot the most damaging one: - security It is impossible on a practical basis to secure any significant amount of cryptocurrency. Even the most secure known methods of storage have been compromised [1], and computer security has reache
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Image Super-Resolution Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks(github.com)
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by silverpikezero 11y ago
Yes, they are a legitimate company. They showed up on the Bitcoin radar back in Nov 2013 [1]. They started as a private mining consortium with their own chip design, and now presumably they want to pivot into a consumer-facing business. [1]
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by silverpikezero 11y ago
I am extremely glad that most comments here see the inherent craziness of this idea. I am a hardware designer who participated heavily in mining since Jan 2011, and gave up completely on Bitcoin in summer of 2014. The big problem that Balaj
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Clustering of Time Series Subsequences Is Meaningless (2005) [pdf](cs.ucr.edu)
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by silverpikezero 11y ago
FPGAs may have opened up options for prototyping, yes. However they have done nothing whatsoever for production. It's economically infeasible to productize and FPGA based product since the only ones worth using are all ~$10k per unit,
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by silverpikezero 12y ago
This is an absolutely fascinating slide set. Thanks submitter very much for the link. I have written embedded C before, and the following facts just blow my mind: 1. The Throttle Angle function in the Toyota code had a McCabe Cyclomatic Com
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by silverpikezero 12y ago
You make a good point. There are some kinds of "institutional dysfunction" that are too problematic to overcome. It that sense it's really not only about the manager. At best managers can carve out a small pocket of good work
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by silverpikezero 12y ago
If by "projecting", you mean drawing on my experience, then of course I am. > I've also been privileged to work with HR people for whom the adage "never trust them" was completely false. I'm glad you had a g

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