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Take a look at this slide-deck http://www.slideshare.net/ianfoster/e-science-foster-decembe... particularly page 10 onwards. Lately this has been a hotly contested issue, with arguments both for and…

If you care for a different cure, then noscript. The developers of each had a spat in recent times though.

Prolonged beating of the soles of the feet, or phalanga as it is sometimes called, is definitely torture. It has a rich history. It is extremely painful, primarily because of the abundance of nerve …

Shocking! But my comment is about something else: the different presentation style used by NYT and Salon. The chances that I would have skipped over the NYT article is much higher than I would have th…

Thanks and upvoted for the reply and the link. Did not expect my comment to picked up, given I joined so late in the thread. In terms of raw FLOPS I think one can comfortably top the CM-5 machines wit…

If I remember correctly NESL programs are compiled into vcode a special bytecode that handled vector instructions particularly well. If vcode is ported/specialized to the commodity multicore machines …

Am I the only one reminded of this Monty Python classic Confuse a cat : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Je1CEPkUM

My comment should really be an Ask HN. But is it conceivable to build a CM-5 class computer on FPGA boards ? Any idea how much that would cost if it was possible ?

I think the author was trying to be provocative, but the beginning was absolutely trollish. As I was reading, for a moment I thought the article salvaged itself somewhat, but once it started again on …

My favorite story about estimating yields of nuclear weapons is the confetti method. I recollect it being attributed both to von Neumann and Fermi. I am not sure who the actual person was. The way i…

Yeah that's what I meant by "phishing trap". In retrospect not a good choice of words, "compromised" would have been better. I am letting it remain as it is because you commented on it. I think a bett…

Ok that clears the air :) I agree that if as an user I trust the "customer" to take me to my OpenId provider then it provides no protection against phising. I totally agree that phishing is not a prot…

It appears that Zed Shaw does not like openId. I agree with him that it is certainly no panacea, but the risks can be minimized to a large extent if used properly. I use openId to login to HN. So when…

The use of such qualifiers bother me, rather the inconsistent use of such qualifiers. The media often misses those when they are needed the most. For instance regarding Sherrod / WMD...Edit: Though I …

I hear you. I do not have any answers, just sharing my experiences. What I end up doing is following a cycle thats larger than the 24 hour cycle. What happens with me is that I cannot get my mind to s…

Oh! In that case I totally misunderstood.

I did not know Stalin could compile to LLVM bytecode. I thought it could only compile to C. It takes a while to compile code but the compiled code is blazing fast, that too, without type annotations. …

I have played with FC++ a little bit. Its nice, but if you are used to scheme it will feel verbose. But one cant really complain, C++ wasn't really meant for this.

Take a look at FC++ and Boost.lambda and Boost.Phoenix http://sourceforge.net/projects/fcpp/ http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_45_0/doc/html/lambda.html http://boost-spirit.com/dl_docs/phoenix-2/li…

You are right. But scala does not make it any harder if one chooses to write functional code.

Or Clojure for that matter.

But its not free, right ?

Taken from one of the examples : final HAppend<HCons<Boolean, HNil>, HCons<Double, HCons<String, HCons<Integer[], HNil>>>, HCons<Boolean, HCons<Dou…

Some older comments here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2013346 Surprisingly enough I could not get a hit with k-grams of "Almost but not quite entirely unlike tea." But k-grams of "Colorless …

Isn't this the feature that Steele and Stallman were working on, in Guy Steele's example of extreme pair programming. http://cycle-gap.blogspot.com/2007/09/extreme-pair-programmi... …

People complain about Lisp's parenthesis all the time. I almost never found them bothersome and this comes from a Lisp newbie. My editor is vim though, not emacs. The only occasion that parens have …

Oops forgot the link http://www.greenarraychips.com/index.html