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I am now reading The Fourth Paraidgm in which Mark Abbott talks about "A new path for science?" where he says discoveries and teaching will happen at the "edges." I think Khan Academy is a good example.

Colin, that is a well-written thesis I have read in a long time! Great work!

Read Harry Kesten's laudation of Stas Smirnov, you can skip over the "details" and it's still a fun read: http://www.icm2010.in/wp-content/icmfiles/laudaions/fields3....

Why does a site featuring Top 100 Sites of _2010_ looks like it was designed in 1994!

Either. I ask because only the latter (PRCM) is the most obvious one to me.

Agreed that privacy and social networks are opposing ideas. But, they are opposing ideas only because how Facebook defines a user's "social network." The entire world is not my "social network." So, IMHO, addressing privacy may need a change in that thinking/definition of what a social network is.

If it's any help: it's available on Netflix for streaming.

pg, if you don't mind me asking, how are they planning to make money?

Privacy, perhaps.

Here is a Forbes article from 1998 Spring about Anil Singh and his team's perspective: http://www.forbes.com/asap/1998/0223/068.html

Do a quick search on the blogs and the names of people posting comments on it. They are authoritative sources, just because it is on a blog (run by a well known complexity theorist) doesn't mean it's less important. I am quite surprised to see so many comments from these guys and such a discussion happen in public.

You can find revised versions at: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Vinay_Deolalikar/Papers/ It is being revised frequently.

The lack of over-the-air syncing is really a big pain! GTD apps are suppose to empty your brain of unnecessary things but I still have to remember to sync.

What would be the right tool, then?

Please note that RE2 doesn't support backtracking.

Should have qualified by sentence with "open source" and "free." OTOH, I don't think IDS is a flawed concept it's just used the wrong way in most enterprises.

Competition is a good thing. Snort has been the only IDS in the market (I'm aware of Bro) and now there is competition in Suricata. The problem I see is that Suricata folks confusing "improvement" and "innovation." IDS, IMHO, still need innovations.

Perhaps people stopped talking about matrices because social graphs are sparse. Also, most of the time papers (esp. system papers) are written to solve a problem and if the paper proposes a solution to solving a social graph related problem then that's what the author will use because it's easier for readers to relate.

I down voted you by accident! My bad.

Yes, it was painful to read and I missed the whole point of the post unless it is just listing of where we find and use "graphs." I think this is a post out of his comfirt zone; I like his VC and startup posts better.

Not necessarily allocating very large chunks in bulk but umm... Allocating nodes for a million nodes of a graph and subsequently processing them. Java JVM fragments memory heavily. En

Mindless consuming kills creativity; whether at school or at home. Got to stop that and engage people to _do something_ of their own.

Try allocating a very large chunk of memory using a high-level language with garbage collector. It's not always about collection.

Why not use HTTP Content-Range (along with javascript) to make the latest version cacheable (instead of getting a patch every time)?

The bigger picture is vendors can't impose rules on what security researchers do on their free-time if they are not willing to pay for the bugs the researchers find and report. Hence the reference to the registry entry: "HKCU\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Security and changing the "OurJob" boolean value to FALSE."

Look up "no more free bugs" for more info. (Edit: A URL http://trailofbits.com/2009/03/22/no-more-free-bugs/)

Good article but a little resarch into recent publications in systems conferences could have helped put it in a better direction. Althogh lot of programmers use text-book algorithm there exist a large body of work (in CS) that focus on the engineering aspects of algorithms. Look into compression/decompression algorithms like PPM for example and you will see O(n^2) algos are proposed as improvements over O(lg n). (run time vs. execution time).

Design and analysis of algorithm is only one area in CS. Author is correct in pointing out CS programs lack engineering focus, at least in undergrad education.

"The cause of the outage was a very unfortunate code change that overwrote some key options in the options table for a number of blogs." TC

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/10/wordpress-gives-us-the-vip-...

I think most complaints I have seen/heard about IE are not about innovation but about violation (of standards) either by deviating from what the standard says or simply not implementing certain portions. Innovation without violation is great for developers.

My question wasn't about the article.

My question was how much fragmentation is there on iPhone to warrant VM. It has fixed memory and runs only one app at a time (mostly).

True, we need a Library of Congress unit for computational biology.

Yup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1240171

I also wonder how useful virtual memory would be on a device like iPad/iPhone. With limited memory and no multitasking how often would address fragmentation be an issue.