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Re:"Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords on Thursday February 22, 2018 @06:22AM (#16436826)
How trustworthy is /haveibeenpwned.com? Is there a chance the password people enter there for checking will end up in the databases?
Re:Founder lived in a nursing home for 3 months to get his start-up of... on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:44AM (#16411840)
Is there a realistic alternative?

I read a lot on entrepreneurship during 19th century and early 20th century US. My limited understanding: in those days entrepreneurs came from much wider range of demographics. In other words, entry barriers were much less during those days.

Re:Founder lived in a nursing home for 3 months to get his start-up of... on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:38AM (#16411813)
Very good observations. I think it partly explains why innovation is so hard in places where people live hand to mouth. It is simply excludes those demographics from participating in innovation and changing status quo.
Re:Allocation is cheap in .NET until it is not on Thursday January 25, 2018 @05:51AM (#16230064)
Thanks! Your example is pretty interesting. Any reason why this is the case? In both cases, it is just accessing a memory location to read the value. Are there compiler optimization heuristics at play here? E.g., for the local variable compiler knows that its value is not changing during the loop execution, so it can be pushed to register for faster access.
Re:Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression,... on Thursday January 25, 2018 @05:40AM (#16230028)
"turmeric lattes" :)

My kitchen medicine for running nose, soar throat is hot milk with turmeric. Works for me most of the times.

Re:Allocation is cheap in .NET until it is not on Thursday January 25, 2018 @05:36AM (#16230018)
Thanks!
Re:Allocation is cheap in .NET until it is not on Thursday January 25, 2018 @02:50AM (#16229442)
Can you please point to any resources that talk about heavy optimization options in c#. That 50-fold increase you talk about is very interesting. I would like to learn more.
Re:Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression,... on Thursday January 25, 2018 @02:40AM (#16229411)
it's not turmeric, it's curcumin, which is about 2% of turmeric by mass (so, you'd need to eat ~4.5g turmeric daily to match study doses)

Typical Indian cooking uses turmeric in pretty much everything. I wouldn't be surprised if daily consumption of turmeric is very close to the figures you mentioned.

Re:Repeating Radio Signals Coming from Distant Galaxy Detected on Thursday August 31, 2017 @07:08AM (#15139481)
1% of the Sun's output power seems really huge. Is this accurate? Any references?
Re:Truth about Why the Wayback Machine or Internet Archive Was Blocked... on Thursday August 10, 2017 @08:01AM (#14978778)
Yesterday this news was on HN homepage. I just wanted to submit this clarification.

It seems like a weird decision by the courts to block websites randomly to prevent piracy of some movies.

Re:Talking to Boys the Way We Do to Girls on Monday June 19, 2017 @07:43AM (#14586151)
I think that is a very good advice.

Reminded me of my conversation with my son when he was three years old:

“I want to be brave. Tell me how to be brave” asked my darling son today before leaving for his school. I didn’t have an answer. As my eyes welled up, I asked if he is scared of anything in particular.”No, I am brave. I am not scared of anything” came back his reply.

https://introspeak.wordpress.com/2016/06/23/tell-me-how-to-b...

Re:Eye-witness stories from Chernobyl on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @07:51AM (#14544110)
May be because we are used to dangers of water, and floods for millions of years.

On the other hand, dangers of nuclear is a very recent thing. Common people's primary recollection point of nuclear is probably nuclear bomb.

Re:Down the Drain: How the Swachh Bharat Mission Is Heading for Failure on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @10:25AM (#14410218)
Interesting points!

I can't quite remember where I came across this (most likely in a TED talk), and details I can recollect are very vague but here is a horrifying tidbit from history:

In those days, apparently people used to collect excreta in some form of bins, and dump it out in the streets. People used to drop it from multi floor buildings also :(

It was mentioned that if a man is taking a woman on date, while walking in the street he has to keep the woman on the side of the street; While the man himself is walking on the side of the buildings (imagine man, woman walking hand in hand, side by side). Why? in case someone throws unpleasant things from a window above, it is the man who will take the (s)hit.

Sorry if it is unbelievably outrageous, but apparently that was our past :(

Re:Down the Drain: How the Swachh Bharat Mission Is Heading for Failure on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @10:10AM (#14410103)
He is so obviously agenda driven and is abusing a lot of people with his use of derogatory remarks. He got away with it because, not many people here have the full context of his abuse.

I will leave you with this TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a...

Never build your worldview with what is provided by a hate-filled single sided opinion.

Re:High prevalence of diabetes among people exposed to organophosphate... on Monday April 10, 2017 @09:26AM (#14078285)
The original title of the article: "Gut microbial degradation of organophosphate insecticides-induces glucose intolerance via gluconeogenesis"

Why is the title in HN edited to make this about "India"? Is this finding not applicable to people elsewhere? or id other parts of the world stop using organophosphates?

Re:India is set to launch a scale model of a reusable spacecraft on Mo... on Monday May 23, 2016 @03:59AM (#11752511)
Official update from the space agency here has some technical details: http://www.isro.gov.in/update/23-may-2016/india%E2%80%99s-re...
Re:Chinese Buy One-Third of Vancouver Homes: National Bank Estimate on Thursday March 24, 2016 @02:03AM (#11350881)
$1,247,988 is the rough valuation. Their suggested EMI is around $6.8K/month. Would it be in reach for people getting $200K/yr? Are there enough Googlers getting that much?
Re:UK surveillance powers bill could force startups to bake in backdoors on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @01:44AM (#11287673)
Any references for this please.
Re:UK surveillance powers bill could force startups to bake in backdoors on Friday March 11, 2016 @07:27AM (#11266162)
can you elaborate on how that happened and when?
Re:BloomFilter Experiments on Friday February 26, 2016 @03:41AM (#11180445)
can you elaborate on what happened?