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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 "r…

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 wer…

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 …

This is great: Use j/k keys to navigate

For virtualbox.org it's planned maintenance from April 27th to April 30th. The announcement was on the main page.

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.…

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 fa…

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 …

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/2012/01/20/66…

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 C…

Previous discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1228779

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

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.

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 Wi…

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 availa…

Just to add some more. Some examples of Soviet era infographics (in Russian): http://community.gidlipetsk.ru/blog/view/6786

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...

My choice this year is Burton Malkiel's "A Random Walk Down Wall Street"

Here are major C11 Standard changes: - standard multithreading support ( header) - atomic operations ( header) - type-generic macros (sqrt translates to sqrt, sqrtf, sqrtl dependin…

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 takin…