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by nmc 10y ago
Original source is the WSJ: http://www.wsj.com/articles/clinton-emails-in-probe-dealt-wi... (may be paywalled, just google the headline to bypass)
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by nmc 10y ago
"Accustomed to being always at the top of his class, Heisenberg found it hard to accept the lowest of three passing grades for his doctorate." The only sad thing I can see is that, according to the story, receiving such a low gr
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by nmc 10y ago
Very fun. For those who are puzzled by the term "quine": http://meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/4877/what-c...
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by nmc 10y ago
Similarly, personal records for 50 million Turkish citizens got leaked a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11420139
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by nmc 10y ago
Can we please have a little less narrative and a little more information sources? Has anyone confirmed any affirmation in the article?
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by nmc 11y ago
You are wrong on one part: connectivity providers usually provide detailed information about failures to their customers [1]. The only thing is: you are not their customer — your ISP is. Some ISPs will communicate to their own customers, i.
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by nmc 11y ago
In the video, the audience laughs at that line. But maybe many buyers would not.
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by nmc 11y ago
Agreed: to me the word "random" makes it seem like the IP address was randomly generated. Interestingly enough, the author himself uses the word "random" to describe the address, but then implies it is indeed unique:
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by nmc 11y ago
TL;DR: the bug is due to GCC's optimization feature called full redundancy elimination (FRE). It treats "int a=* pi; * pi=a" as a redundant store and removes it, as explained in the 5th comment: https://gcc.gnu.org
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by nmc 11y ago
Worts part: the search implementation is very poor. Typing "Teacher" will give you the following options Postsecondary Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Other Teachers and Instructors, Preschool and
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by nmc 11y ago
You are right, the <blockquote> seems to have been replaced by a <img> tag. Also, I can indeed imagine how this would be caused by improper parsing of double quotes and angled brackets.
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by nmc 11y ago
Thanks, I had not figured that out! Why is the href set to "</p" then?
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by nmc 11y ago
What is this??? In the first <blockquote> of the article: <p> 20,000 FBI EMPLOYEES NAMES, TITLES, PHONE NUMBERS, EMAILS, COUNTRY <a href="</p">penis </a> <a href=" https://twi
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by nmc 11y ago
After reading the article and most of the comments, I still find one point unclear: if the period does logically belong inside the comma, does it also end the sentence? For example: > He wrote "I live here." Then he stopped wri
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by nmc 11y ago
The Internet Archived has referenced this full scan of the book on PDF.yt: http://pdf.yt/d/KIkLrSPi_3lzPl5v No idea how legal this is though, download at your own risk.
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by nmc 11y ago
Since the author of the article did not even bother linking to the teenagers' website or even showing some screenshots of the app, here are some links: - The Five-O app on Pinetart Inc. (the teenagers' company) website: http:&#x2
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by nmc 11y ago
Original story from NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/rocks-rich-in-silica-present...
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by nmc 11y ago
If you want to figure that out, here is an estimate for the cost of building a Death Star: http://www.centives.net/S/2012/how-much-would-it-cost-to-bui... TL;DR At 2012 prices, about $852,000,000,000,000,000
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by nmc 11y ago
For those feeling confused: this is not the only book called Fermat's Last Theorem . • Harold Edwards, Fermat's Last Theorem , 1977 • Simon Singh, Fermat's Last Theorem , 1997 (There may be others.)
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by nmc 11y ago
The thesis is disturbingly similar to the one detailed in: http://www.iflscience.com/technology/should-self-driving-car... Almost feels like plagiarism.
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by nmc 11y ago
This is probably true, but equally bad. Why would so much more men than women start to code?
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by nmc 11y ago
The post was updated with a link to this transcript/summary: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...
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by nmc 11y ago
Can you reference a scientific study to support that claim please?
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by nmc 11y ago
I had the exact same thought! The timeline is almost puzzling: • Episode "Sponsored Content" (s19e08), in which advertising disguised as news is first mentioned, aired on November 18. • The Ofcom report was published on November 2
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by nmc 11y ago
You may find sunlight annoying, but many people actually love it. Especially in some places where (and during some times when) people do not get that much of it. For instance, a Norwegian town sitting at the bottom of a narrow valley set up
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by nmc 11y ago
Nice avatar indeed. Are you suggesting this is an immature boy's avatar? This guy is actually a Principal Engineer at Mozilla, working on WebRTC.
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by nmc 11y ago
If IETF members were all immature boys, the Internet (along with many other things) would probably be a lot worst than it is today.
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by nmc 11y ago
The statement about the two words only concerns the body, and the formula n ² + 2 counts for one word.
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by nmc 11y ago
OP, please append "(2012)" to the title.
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by nmc 11y ago
Maybe Google webcache would be more appropriate than plaintext: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fD4utpl...

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