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by kia 14y ago
There is a reason why I would never use such service like Prismatic. The main problem for me here is that it creates a confined universe for you where you are surrounded by only "relevant" information. For example I don't care much about fa
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by kia 14y ago
But what was a little surprising is that there were no handsets for the press to play with. There were some demonstration units carefully attended by PR personnel, and while we were able to get kind of close to them, the general rule was "
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by kia 14y ago
The big difference of drugs from alcohol and tobacco is their addictiveness. While you can't get addicted to alcohol or tobacco after one use, certain drugs cause severe addiction after first dose. Of course you can legalize only mild drugs
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by kia 14y ago
This is great: Use j/k keys to navigate
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by kia 14y ago
For virtualbox.org it's planned maintenance from April 27th to April 30th. The announcement was on the main page.
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by kia 14y ago
Why goto is bad? Again this "structured programming" bullshit. Kernel uses 2 a lot to handle errors like here [1]. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/mm/shmem.c#L99...
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by kia 14y ago
It's just a technical failure. The trading was stopped for about 4 hours. After reopening the stock market fell 2.5 percent. No official statement was made about what caused the failure. From here: http://echo.msk.ru/news/881684-echo.html
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by kia 14y ago
In US (not counting downtowns of large Cities like NY or SF) it is much harder to enjoy walking compared to most other places in the world. First you just look weird here when you walk somewhere and you are the only person walking in the st
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Orders of magnitude(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by kia 15y ago|1 comments
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by kia 15y ago
While he really seems to be a well known scientist, the photo of a "scorpion" [1] is not the best confirmation of his theories. [1] - http://www.mk.ru/science/article/2012/01/20/662678-na-venere...
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by kia 15y ago
There is an excellent book "Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the China Production Game" by Paul Midler [1] for those who want to know more about behind-the-scenes of China's manufacturing. [1] - http://www.amazon.com/Poorly-Ma
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US Online Advertising Spending to Surpass Print in 2012(emarketer.com)
1 points by kia 15y ago|0 comments
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by kia 15y ago
Previous discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1228779
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by kia 15y ago
Seems like the idea was to make the iPad rotate like falling maple seeds [1] so it would considerably slow down. [1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUEXKapAVcY
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by kia 15y ago
One problem with induction cooking is that you have to use cookware made of ferromagnetic metal. For other pots an interface ferromagnetic disk is required.
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Cool data structures: Splay Trees(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by kia 15y ago|0 comments
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GNU libavl(stanford.edu)
6 points by kia 15y ago|1 comments
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by kia 15y ago
Question three about dates is pretty much Anchoring Effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring Also an interesting reference about anchoring and electric cars from the above Wikipedia article: http://www.treehugger.com/cars/nissans-l
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by kia 15y ago
Microsoft BitLocker in its most secure mode is the gold standard because it protects against more attack modes than other software. Unfortunately, Microsoft has only made it available with certain versions of Microsoft Windows. Though MS
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by kia 15y ago
Just to add some more. Some examples of Soviet era infographics (in Russian): http://community.gidlipetsk.ru/blog/view/6786
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Restart Linux machine with broken root FS via SSH(unix.stackexchange.com)
1 points by kia 15y ago|0 comments
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by kia 15y ago
Actually 10-petaflop barrier (LINPACK benchmark) was surpassed in November by Japanese K-computer: http://www.riken.jp/engn/r-world/info/release/press/2011/111...
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Ask HN: Best book you read in 2011
336 points by kia 15y ago|307 comments
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by kia 15y ago
Here are major C11 Standard changes: - standard multithreading support (<threads.h> header) - atomic operations (<stdatomic.h> header) - type-generic macros (sqrt translates to sqrt, sqrtf, sqrtl depending on argumen
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by kia 15y ago
In scientific computing it's not unusual to get 2x-3x speedups by doing simple optimizations like this one. For desktop applications it's nothing, but when your simulation is taking a week to complete then 2x-speedup is a huge improvement.
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Massive DDoS attacks on media during Russian elections(skynews.com.au)
3 points by kia 15y ago|0 comments
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by kia 15y ago
Suggestion: add archives in more Unix friendly format (xz, gz, bz2). Not everyone has zip installed on their Unix box.
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by kia 15y ago
There is a lot of this stuff under Moscow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-2
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by kia 15y ago
I think strategically it's a wise move. For MS 7.5m is a small sum. In case IPv6 will not be deployed at the speed we all want their investment will pay off tenfold because IPv4 addresses will be gold. They try to hedge the address exhausti
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by kia 15y ago
Unless scientists and researchers start to put the interests of collaboration and “open science” ahead of their desire to be promoted or win tenure the system will not change This is the main problem because most won't.

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