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Re:Prismatic gets $15 million in Series A Funding
on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @12:43PM (#4877408)
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 fashion, but once in a while reading NY Times I stumble upon a very interesting articles about new trends in fashion or its history. It makes me think out of the box and expands my knowledge. There is no way a service like Prismatic would provide me with such articles based on my interests.
Re:Where oh where is Windows Phone 8?
on Thursday September 06, 2012 @01:14PM (#4485145)
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 "you can look but you can't touch."
Looking at this [1] video I would say that this article is just another BS from Ars.
[1] http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/nokia-lumia-920-slate/45...
Re:How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions
on Friday June 15, 2012 @03:33PM (#4118253)
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. But it won't solve the problem because as we see this business is mostly about very addictive ones.
EDIT: typo
Re:50 Years Ago: The World in 1962
on Thursday May 17, 2012 @09:53AM (#3986955)
This is great:
Use j/k keys to navigate
Re:Java.sun.com is down again - breaking bad apps across the land
on Saturday April 28, 2012 @09:39PM (#3904796)
For virtualbox.org it's planned maintenance from April 27th to April 30th. The announcement was on the main page.
Re:Error handling style in C
on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @08:00AM (#3883518)
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...
Re:Russian Stock Market has suspended trading
on Monday April 23, 2012 @08:16PM (#3881744)
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
Re:The Crisis in American Walking
on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @02:55PM (#3823792)
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 street. Drivers usually look at you like you are crazy (especially if you walk in the evening when it's getting dark).
The second and most annoying thing is that sidewalks here can end suddenly without a warning. You can walk somewhere enjoying the nice weather and the sidewalk ends suddenly! WTF? You have to turn back or continue walking using the side of the road looking even more weird.
And the most strange thing is that Americans use their cars to drive to places located within just a couple of thousand feet from their home. For a person from Europe THIS is really weird.
Re:Russian Scientist Claims Signs of Life Spotted on Venus
on Sunday January 22, 2012 @01:50PM (#3497288)
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...
Re:How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
on Saturday January 21, 2012 @04:08PM (#3494625)
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-Made-China-Insiders-Production/...
US Online Advertising Spending to Surpass Print in 2012
Re:Free screencasts about the text editor Vim
on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @08:52AM (#3446914)
Previous discussion
Re:iPad Survives Fall From Edge of Space in Jaw-Dropping Video
on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @05:38AM (#3446472)
Seems like the idea was to make the iPad rotate like falling maple seeds [1] so it would considerably slow down.
Re:The World's Sexiest Stove
on Monday January 09, 2012 @09:05AM (#3442504)
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.
Cool data structures: Splay Trees
GNU libavl
Re:The quiz Daniel Kahneman wants you to fail
on Friday January 06, 2012 @03:24AM (#3432531)
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-leaf-creates-a-new-an...
Re:New Year's Resolution: Full Disk Encryption on Every Computer You Own
on Monday January 02, 2012 @07:54AM (#3415765)
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 says that BitLocker doesn't have back doors [1], I wonder how true this actually is...
[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/si_team/archive/2006/03/02/542590.as...
Re:Infographic examples, ca. 1920s
on Wednesday December 28, 2011 @12:19PM (#3400479)
Just to add some more. Some examples of Soviet era infographics (in Russian):
Restart Linux machine with broken root FS via SSH
Re:Russia building 10-petaflop supercomputer
on Tuesday December 27, 2011 @10:02AM (#3395939)
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...
Ask HN: Best book you read in 2011
My choice this year is Burton Malkiel's "A Random Walk Down Wall Street"
Re:ISO updates C Standard (Now we have C11)
on Sunday December 25, 2011 @02:10PM (#3391420)
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 argument type)
- Unicode support (char16_t and char32_t types)
- gets function is removed from the standard (use gets_s)
- static assertions
- aligned memory allocation (aligned_alloc)
- anonymous structures and unions
- no-return functions (specify functions that never return)
- exclusive access for opened files ("x" in fopen)
- macros to create complex numbers
- additional way to terminate the program (quick_exit and at_quick_exit)
Re:Why is one loop slower than 2 in C?
on Sunday December 18, 2011 @11:54AM (#3366934)
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.
Massive DDoS attacks on media during Russian elections
Re:Indian Railways stations, trains and schedules database in JSON and...
on Saturday December 03, 2011 @09:49AM (#3307829)
Suggestion: add archives in more Unix friendly format (xz, gz, bz2). Not everyone has zip installed on their Unix box.
Re:Declassified Bunker of the USSR
on Saturday November 19, 2011 @08:36AM (#3255257)
There is a lot of this stuff under Moscow:
Re:Microsoft spends $7.5m on IP addresses
on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @02:23PM (#3239704)
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 exhaustion risk.
Re:Why the world of scientific research needs to be disrupted
on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @10:34AM (#3211086)
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.