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by letney 12y ago
...while I thought it would be covering Facebook's Flow project posted here a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8625222
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by letney 12y ago
While the submission title matches the article, it screams linkbait to me. I clicked fully expecting to read about a new 0 day exploit...
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by letney 12y ago
Yes, I got that too. >89.207.135.125 - - - "GET /cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi HTTP/1.0" 302 483 "-" "() { :;}; /bin/ping -c 1 198.101.206.138" ...searching for vulnerable CPanel instal
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by letney 12y ago
I absolutely love Envy apples! They are very crisp and sweet without the tart flavor other crisp varieties seem to have. They also don't go brown after cutting for a very long time. Definitely worth the slightly higher price in the sup
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by letney 12y ago
> Is that something I should pursue? I can only offer an emphatic YES . I think that there are enough geeks out there that would like to see this monopoly broken that I predict a Kickstarter would be a rousing success.
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by letney 12y ago
> "you can't even represent 0.1 in IEEE floating point" Not true, the IEEE 754-2008 standard provides a Decimal Floating Point specification in binary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_floating_poi
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by letney 12y ago
"fishes" refers to multiple species of fish, while "fish" is the correct plural form of a school of a single species.
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by letney 12y ago
> ...and you've saved money in the process too. This discussion hearkens back to the current investigation into John Swallow, the former Attorney General of Utah who resigned less than a year into his term and is currently the subje
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by letney 12y ago
Foreign Function Interface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_function_interface
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by letney 12y ago
I too experienced a plethora of lucid dreaming through my early twenties. Sometimes I would have a few a night for weeks. They tapered off gradually and I have maybe a few a year now (I'm 35). Many were tied with sleep paralysis, whic
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by letney 12y ago
20+ year C/C++ programmer here. I always use ++x unless the postfix version (x++) provides more succinct code. The postfix operator can incur a temporary variable to be created by the compiler and thus make code slower. Reference: ht
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by letney 12y ago
Probably never. As any site in the top rankings is likely going to be using nginx as a reverse proxy to node.js.
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by letney 12y ago
As a C/C++ and graphics programmer, I love NaN. It allows saving space by not having to carry an extra is_valid boolean for uninitialized values or regions of data that are masked. For textures, they are great as they don't inter
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by letney 13y ago
This is exactly what Servo[1] is. [1] http://www.fastcolabs.com/3027664/under-the-hood-of-mozillas...
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by letney 13y ago
I came here to say the same. As a resident of Hawaii it often peeves me to see it left out of so many geographic info-graphics. Hawaii as a sizeable Polynesian pupulation, so my guess is that both the total and per-capita numbers for Hawaii
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by letney 13y ago
The work-around for 'x&(x-1)' I found is one-character longer: '(x&(~x+x+x))'
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by letney 13y ago
Yes, I've had one since early 2005 when a .edu email was required to signup. I have 0 friends and the only content is a single status post of: "I don't use facebook, please contact me via email".
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by letney 13y ago
Gyft.com is my go to place for instant conversion of BTC to a medium (a gift card) I can spend in my local Target or CVS Pharmacy. Their reward system rebates 3% of BTC purchases.
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by letney 13y ago
If you are a DoD employee or contractor, then the answer is 'yes'. [1] http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2013/06/dod-classified/ (assuming there is classified information in the documents)
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by letney 13y ago
Yes. At the sit down dinners I often couldn't decide on an entree -- so I would just order both. Drinks (including soda, coffee, and of course alcohol) are very much not free though. You are also not allowed to bring any alcohol on boa
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by letney 13y ago
They charge 1% on every buy & sell -- so I don't think they're losing money.
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by letney 13y ago
No. Every US based cruise I've ever been on or heard about has free meals. Its common to hear people talk about gaining 10 lbs on a cruise because they ate so much.
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by letney 13y ago
A "Satoshi" already has the common usage/definition of 0.00000001 BTC -- the current smallest denomination. [1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#What_do_I_call_the_various_de...
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by letney 13y ago
What's your source for the '...seizure of 5% of all Bitcoins recently'? The FBI total seizure from Silk Road is 173,991 Bitcoins [1] -- which is about 1.45% of the Total BTC (11,954,825 [2]) [1] http://www.fbi.gov&
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by letney 13y ago
The Honolulu Civil Beat, the primary news site run by Greenwald's new boss/funder Pierre Omidyar, is subscription based. http://m.civilbeat.com/info/membership/
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by letney 13y ago
Your 0.7% figure is slightly off. The total number of Bitcoins to be mined is 21 million, putting the percentage at slightly more than 0.54% (114000/21000000).
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by letney 13y ago
Ah, but that's improving rapidly. Coinbase does BTC->USD in less than 24 hours and USD->BTC instantly (with level 3 verified accounts).
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by letney 13y ago
Wow. This seems like big news in the Bitcoin world to me. This means Apple is giving the green light to Bitcoin related apps in the iTunes store. I wonder if Apple will start allowing entirely phone-based wallet apps now...
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by letney 13y ago
> the percentage doesn't seem to bring enough money compared to the cost of electricity for those machines. That is entirely dependent upon the value of one bitcoin. The transaction fees for a block go to the miner. If bitcoin is ac
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by letney 13y ago
I thought that this was exactly the intention of the Tea Party's antics...

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