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This has been true for years, Intel CPU's can't efficiently perform math operations when hyperthreading is involved. Generally there is only a single shared FPU/AVX/SSE unit doing …

Performance of DOM based rendering is very problematic and not unified across browser implementations. Canvas rendering will likely increase the performance of Google Docs, and mak…

Could be interested in the right opportunity, very experienced dev and manager with Ankylosing Spondylitis who has been greatly helped by medical mj. Would be remote for now, not i…

Depends on the cameras, but I would imagine Facebook and Google's tech + data to be able to positively identify 99% or more of the people. Especially with multiple shots per person…

I know of several hackers that have gone through YC have autoimmune conditions, and I would say there is a larger population of people that have autoimmune conditions then our pare…

Regarding 1, there are systems @ Facebook and inside Google that can do this reasonably well and I know the technology intimately. I would consider this a nearly solved problem, I …

There is absolutely no reason to store anything for 100,000 years. If we were sane and reprocessed our fuel (like France), something like 400-500 years would put us below standard …

Last time I looked there wasn't a way to view on the web, that at least works for me. Appreciate the reply, good luck on Whale and Zero-F

Justin, I love the concept of Whale, but many of us don't have iOs phones. Could you run a more traditional AMA at some point?When will there be a web player or an Android app for …

I use a tiny bit of python, a little more LUA, and a TON of C++ in the machine learning work I do. Things like opencv, fbthrift, folly, boost, fblualib, and thpp make writing this …

I'm not saying its easy, I'm saying a developer using the tools and processes available at a large internet corporation building something small need not be insecure. Basically unt…

He did reuse things that exist inhouse, like the face recognition piece. To rebuild a service with Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Amazon level accuracy in that task, it is definitely mo…

Actually, there are some ways to make this very secure that don't take much effort that in are common use around facebook. It is quite easy to build secure thrift services, and to …

I think you should also mention work queues and producer / consumer thread pools. These are very powerful concepts you don't mention here, and they are often the first tool I use. …