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Agreed. I don't think the point of the article to is to say that this is a never-before-seen type of event, but rather that the landscape is shifting again in the hardware space, a…

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I'm pretty sure you can throw IBM Watson's AI at any of these business problems and you can solve it very quickly.

lol, that PDF is referencing Spark 1.3 from March 2015 and to say that you need 12 modern Spark machines to break-even with one machine running a non-distributed ML framework is ri…

I've been using Thinkpads and Macbooks on and off for the last 15 years, and this gen-5 Thinkpad is easily the best laptop I've ever owned. Some subtle features of this gen-5 lapto…

Thanks for checking. I'll attribute the changes in the hashes I was seeing to a bad internet connection. By the way, I also saw the hash ending in 9a3e a couple of times. About 4 o…

I just downloaded a handful of copies of Kaspersky Antivirus 13 via the HTTP link below and keep getting a file with the same name, but a different MD5 hash. Can someone else try d…

But try clicking on one of the letters to read it. Can you find any?

It's interesting to me that in general Hacker News seems to be anti-Stallman and kinda think of him as a nut or don't deeply understand his position. You'd think if any subculture …

If Reddit users want to join Hacker News because they discovered it today, they should be allowed to. Maybe the new joiner database can't handle the amount of writes the influx of …

Horrible stance.

Yahoo!'s new spinoff, HortonWorks, can become a billion dollar Hadoop company down the line if they carefully navigate around Cloudera and MapR. Not sure how/if that affects Yahoo …

wtf

Thanks, Jon. That's exactly what I meant.

E-mail is so broken fundamentally, that it's not even funny. I'm surprised more people aren't trying to replace it. E-mail's based on the idea that it is free to message me and bot…

I do appreciate the reply. The only way I'd feel safe is if you never got or saw my emails. Instead of me sending 5 years of my emails to you, I'd rather you send me 2,000 lines of…

Did you totally miss Facebook's existence? Teenagers these days don't even use email. Facebook's sucking in the next generation's messages. Email's too slow and asynchronous they c…

So, why would I trust you with 5 years of all my sent and received emails? Should I take your word for it that you'll just save the email addresses and the sent/received timestamp …

at least they're not peeping into your mind

Oh, here's our group's website: accenture.com/techlabs

I work for Accenture R&D in San Jose, CA. Everything I've read here is very different than my typical work day. We're hiring analysts (entry level) and consultants (experienced hir…