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> Apache Arrow (also cache aware, much more cross platform) kdb+ is available for raspberry pi, is that cross platform enough? https://kx.com/2016/06/08/kx-releases-raspberry-pi-bu…

A spreadsheet in k3, demonstrating gui and reactive capabilities: http://nsl.com/papers/spreadsheet.htm

So as I understand, you do agree that moxie's mock protocol ( http://thoughtcrime.org/blog/telegram-crypto-challenge/ ), which he designed to be as awful as possible, is as secure …

it's not just overly complex, the use of 'dependent types' for this indicates that the author doesn't understand how they are really useful. neither he seems to know what serializa…

it's ridiculous, pseudo-mathematical, and a severe case of NIH syndrome :-) Peano numbers for data definition language? are you serious?

make sure to check out their structure definition language: http://core.telegram.org/mtproto/TL-dependent look like a great parody to me? can't tell if they are serious with these …

more likely, trust KGB to steal your mail

KGB is much better than NSA: they simply don't have money for data processing on that scale. Yandex Mail is a great competitor to gmail, some things even work better -- you've got …

please read about Soviet Union. on elites, i recommend you "Nomenklatura: The Soviet Ruling Class" by Michael Voslenski. the soviet elites were screaming happy when borders were fi…

i don't think any of the elites want to live the way they do, too. but they're stuck in the loop like everyone else.

i see your point, but i just find that 'not special in a cosmic sense' is scientifically meaningless and therefore irrelevant here

it seems like you, and the top comment are interpreting this news story as some attack on atheism? i don't see how that's even related. is that your preemptive strike against non-a…

> But by no means is our solar system special in any light: it's only special in that its particular conditions produced lifeforms able to observe it. sorry, but i don't understand…

i don't think that so-called 'Disruptor' is something more than a trivial implementation of 'pipeline parallelism'. i'm sure this keyword typed in google scholar would lead you to …

most of the siberia is below arctic circle. where i'm from we've got a lot of soil, but not enough heat to have good agriculture. what kind of the confusion would lead you to sugge…

well, i guess we'll have to move, be it sooner or later. a lot of migrations have happened in the last 500 years. why insist on status quo for 200-400 more years? > The costs of be…

> agriculture as we know it (the plants we're used to eating in bulk) are no longer feasible in the quantity or quality we expect. of course everyone will have to move, but isn't t…

Curiously, the data is publicly available: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE29662

.. for those who haven't tried to learn it. as cryptic as is your comment for non-english speaking people.

have you considered using APL and its derivatives ? it's about 100x less typing than java.

websites like this already exist.

this is russian smiley. usually used like that )))))

> Later on, I reduced another interviewer's search problem to a polynomial equation that had integer roots when a solution existed well, you can reduce any computable problem to th…

how to watch this without itunes? and what is this itunes thing, by the way?