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I doubt it is a priority. But I can certainly recommend Amazon GPU-enabled instances (~0.6$/hour/GPU, not that much actually).

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 alre…

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 combina…

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 gr…

You can change jobs while being on an H1B. It is commonly referred to as H1B transfer.

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.

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 de…

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

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…

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 misunderstandi…

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).

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 h…

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,…

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, co…

Do not cat log files either: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/15101/how-to-avoid-e...

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 alg…

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 …

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 his…

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 o…

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 B…

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.

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 a…

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 …

2008 financial crisis - collateralized debt obligations. Incomparably bigger.

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 nat…