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Re:There’s a Global Race to Control Batteries–and China Is Winning
on Monday February 12, 2018 @02:43AM (#16357170)
https://qz.com/1004330/north-korea-is-sitting-on-trillions-o...
As mentioned in Tom Clancy: Full Force and Effect.
Reality = Relevance?
Re:A Tiny Hedge Fund Made 8,600% on a Vix Bet
on Saturday February 10, 2018 @10:10AM (#16347589)
I was introduced to the book "Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners" on HN[0] and it seems like a really good book (from the bit I have skimmed so far).
Protothreads – Lightweight Stackless Threads in C
CALO – Cognitive Assistant That Learns and Organizes
Re:Redis on Acid: 0.5M ops/sec, 1ms latency and ACID compliance
on Sunday July 23, 2017 @05:53PM (#14834611)
I would think that something like hyperdex/warp[1] would be better for that use case.
[1] http://hyperdex.org/ [2] https://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/papers/hyperdex-sigcom... [3] http://rescrv.net/papers/warp-tech-report.pdf
Re:Show HN: Quilt – manage data like code
on Friday July 14, 2017 @09:10PM (#14774488)
What's the difference between Apache Parquet and Apache Arrow? They are both columnar formats right?
Animat
Re:Pharo – Quuve
on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @07:21PM (#14757528)
I wonder why they didn't use moose[1]; I guess it probably started development before it.
Re:I found a bug in Intel Skylake processors
on Monday July 03, 2017 @09:50AM (#14688206)
There's also UndoDB if you can pay for it. Not sure what the differences are between it and RR, but I know with UndoDB you can create a binary for the client that has the recorder built in, so it can automatically record failing states.
The Thermodynamics of Garbage Collection [pdf]
Re:Typing Nix
on Friday June 23, 2017 @09:00AM (#14618818)
There's also Guix in case anyone is interested. It uses Guile/Scheme for everything instead of Haskell.
Re:How sandboxing works in Fuchsia
on Monday June 19, 2017 @09:58AM (#14586972)
GoboLinux had an amazingly awesome alternative file system layout https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoboLinux
Stop Treading Water: Learning to Learn [video]
Re:PG-Strom: SSD-To-GPU Direct SQL Execution
on Sunday June 04, 2017 @06:21PM (#14483951)
Does that mean that this library[1] requires GPUDirect? That's sad.
Re:Tuning Your DBMS Automatically with Machine Learning
on Saturday June 03, 2017 @08:13PM (#14479217)
Reminds me of this:
https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/01/17/self-driving-database-ma...
Re:Coroutines are now in Clang trunk, libc++
on Friday May 26, 2017 @11:17AM (#14424632)
I found this to be a good article about the importance of coroutines compared to continuation-passing style:
http://orthecreedence.github.io/cl-async/2012/11/07/missing-...
Re:Little Things I Like to Do with Git
on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @12:04PM (#14411035)
Git-annex might be of interest to you.
https://git-annex.branchable.com/
I don't know how the situation has changed in regards to binaries, or if this is a good suggestion, I just remember reading about git-annex when it came out a few years ago.
Re:James Gosling, the ‘Father of Java,’ joins Amazon Web Services
on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @11:24AM (#14402015)
"We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."
- Guy Steele, Java spec co-author
Re:A Seven Dimensional Analysis of Hashing Methods [pdf]
on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @03:24PM (#14197114)
Recently I was reading about hash tables on wikipedia and I was surprised to learn about how much the birthday problem influenced their design.
"A real world example of a hash table that uses a self-balancing binary search tree for buckets is the HashMap class in Java version 8."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table#Separate_chaining_w...