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Re:OpenAI Announces Funding for Startups
on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @05:10PM (#27296144)
I have to agree. Really reminds me of IBM Watson's tech for revenue share arrangement. If any of it works well, why not build the business?
Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case
on Monday November 23, 2020 @07:17PM (#25193624)
There is an exception under the foreign corrupt practices act (FCPA) that if you do as parent poster described (pay and report as such) then it is legal. Otherwise you are correct, it is highly illegal.
Re:Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf]
on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:46PM (#22564538)
My understanding is that she did not, though this gets way into the weeds of the military trial. I can try to dig this up if you're interested (been a couple years since I read about that particular facet).
She claimed a lot of legally nonsensical things on stand so I'm not sure any of it passed any scrutiny. It certainly didn't with the judge.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/chelsea-m...
Re:Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf]
on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:17PM (#22564418)
She was convicted at a military trial. Obama commuted her sentence.
Re:Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf]
on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:02PM (#22564341)
You would prefer that prosecutors be able to indict people without any checks? Grand jury proceedings are secret to protect the innocent.
Re:Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf]
on Thursday March 12, 2020 @10:58PM (#22564308)
She was granted immunity for testimony. Had she testified, instead of willfully ignoring the court, she would not have been held in contempt.
Re:Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf]
on Thursday March 12, 2020 @10:55PM (#22564291)
This was a grand jury proceeding. While this was about a matter that happened while she was in the military, anyone that is granted immunity but refuses to testify could be held in contempt by the court.
Re:Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf]
on Thursday March 12, 2020 @10:49PM (#22564262)
The top of this order:
By Order dated May 6, 2019 [Doc. 2], the Court granted Chelsea Manning full use and derivative use immunity, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 6002, and ordered Ms. Manning to testify and provide other information in the above-captioned grand jury proceeding ("Grand Jury").
All she had to do was testify truthfully about the matters she was being asked about. Fifth amendment is irrelevant in this context.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?
on Monday April 08, 2013 @12:08PM (#5512552)
Human Computation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlzM3zcd-lk
Captcha creator on how we can trick humans into doing useful work via "games with a purpose".
Re:Dear Open Source Project Leader: Quit Being A Jerk
on Friday December 14, 2012 @02:14PM (#4922668)
I really recommend "The No Asshole Rule" by Robert Sutton. It's not just that life is too short. Working with assholes will literally make your life shorter. Kudos for calling somebody out in an attempt to stop the madness.
Re:Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at 700 Mbps
on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @12:59AM (#4782214)
Something tells me gatech and google have different links to the internet....
Re:Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others
on Monday October 22, 2012 @02:55PM (#4684797)
Not all instances are EBS backed.
Re:The 15% Tax Rate
on Sunday January 22, 2012 @11:50AM (#3496957)
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/01/135105.htm
Google, and of course virtually every multi-national corporation based in the US, does make use of many US government capabilities. I don't think it makes any sense to say:
>They don't consume any US government services either
However, I do think the corporate income tax issue is a subtle one.
It'd be interesting to compare what Larry and Sergey will pay in taxes versus government outlays for the things that have made Google possible.
Re:AMD's Bulldozer server benchmarks are here, and they're a catastrophe
on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @11:14AM (#3266044)
Thanks for the reply but your piece wasn't balanced and well below the quality standards I used to hold for your site (always re-balance expectations!). You didn't talk about power consumption or anything interesting about the platform. We can get press releases from intel.
Re:AMD's Bulldozer server benchmarks are here, and they're a catastrophe
on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @11:11AM (#3266027)
Sad but true...You can issue SIMD instructions on 4 doubles at once though (and put whatever you want in those 16 registers)....
Re:AMD's Bulldozer server benchmarks are here, and they're a catastrophe
on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @01:56AM (#3264456)
I'm not sure what it would look like in the video [d]ecoder world, but I don't think that would matter since most the time you'd want to use the 256-bit vector instructions (in practice this would hardly be a high priority until they're nearly ubiquitous...). For use cases where you are addressing large memory regions this hardly seems like that big of a deal. There are times when you can schedule tons of calculations without leaving L1 but for some odd reason people are finding 500GB+ of RAM useful.
Re:AMD's Bulldozer server benchmarks are here, and they're a catastrophe
on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @01:28AM (#3264383)
This article is impressively bad.
While the 8-module chip does share a few things (mainly a vector processing unit, that becomes two when doing the 128-bit SSE operations) they really can run 16 threads on 16 ALUs. But, they'll have sse contention if they schedule more than 8 256-bit vector operations (sadly intel won't bring this instruction set to market for a bit). Bulldozer is pretty cool, but sadly the tech press decides to shit on the underdog in a market that multiple companies have successfully sued the monopolist for anti-competitive behavior. :(
Re:Why Daylight Saving Time Should Be Abolished
on Friday November 04, 2011 @11:04PM (#3198753)
Re:Badass JS is back
on Monday October 24, 2011 @07:41PM (#3152108)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpeg-2#ISO.2FIEC_13818
There's quite a verbose spec for all of the major codecs people talk about, but sadly it's 10k(? number I heard tossed around). ffmpeg is a great place to look, but checking out some stuff on fft is a good way to get some background knowledge.
Re:Cringely predicts the second coming of Java
on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @04:01PM (#3104309)
I'd recommend you checkout mirah (ruby inspired but compiles to jvm bytecode).
Re:Daring Fireball: Universe Dented, Grass Underfoot
on Thursday October 06, 2011 @02:06PM (#3080995)
Rich people can buy apple products, lots of poor people have been killed and maimed by landmines. It's best not to be so glib about how important a god to consumers was when some people did important charitable things despite being a figure in the tabloids.
Re:What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?
on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @03:07PM (#2997456)
PTSD. Sorry.
That training is about taking people out of civil society and giving them the ability to engage in behaviors that would give others (quite rightly) pause. This is not a place to look to generate well-rounded citizens that do not see violence as a way to manipulate others.
Re:Ask HN: tiny VMs
on Friday September 09, 2011 @11:15AM (#2978412)
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Conary
rPath's build system and rbuilder were made for this purpose.
You can spin iso's and vm images all in a web interface. (rbuilder has a flash interface. It's more powerful from teh command line but susestudio is really fast).
Red Hat/Fedora is suppose to have something (probably more than one) that's new and slick.