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If this was originally filed on an open bug tracker in July 2015, what were the glibc team doing in the mean time? The Google post indicates they were "working on it" when Google g…

I think the difference is in one case you are talking about specific properties of specific programs, and in the other you are talking about a universal question about any program.…

"Evans plans to create an online recruiting process that will help him select applicants who fit into the community." Gotta be careful of those discrimination laws.

If you want a full featured local linux command line, you can switch to developer mode and install one in a chroot via something like https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton This does…

If you're wondering which tab is making a random key click sound in the background every couple of minutes, it's this one.

I wonder why he didn't donate the shares directly, isn't that simpler for tax reasons?

The article lists 1.8P for a brain with 75 million neurons. Unless I've misplaced my zeroes, that's over ~20M per neuron, which seems much higher than I'd expect.

Its worth pointing out that due to Sarbanes-Oxley, some of this will not happen on the stock market this time. So if you are just looking at P/E of publicly traded stocks you are g…

Yeah, this is not news to anyone who looks beyond the surface level income figures. Unfortunately, journalists fail us comprehensively in this regard. It's a shame because there ar…

From TFA: "Working with funding from the Yale Provost’s office, Cowen and post doctoral researcher Brice Kuhl, now an assistant professor at New York University, showed six subject…

Hmm. I'd like to say I'm excited but I really don't see how they will capture that story effectively in film.

I highly recommend Ted Chiang. I really enjoyed "Story of your Life" available in this short story collection of the same name: http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Your-Life-Others-Chian…

Please show me the spec. Or even a high level discussion of the protocol.

I can't find any information on the "newly developed dark mail protocol." Is this public anywhere? I need more information before I know if I want to donate to support it.

He was explicit in that he was demonstrating 1:1 legacy mouse support, presumably there are other options for non-legacy games (and perhaps legacy games too?) For example, my macbo…

That's from http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9704009.pdf There's some more from the author here: http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/crazy.html

This should help. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6962

Leaving aside the question of whether evading a law through a technicality is alright (and surely the court will decide whether they were successful at that or not), but the indict…

It's really hard to claim that the LR guys are innocent. The comparison with Ford is completely out. If you read the indictment itself it's fairly clear that they were knowingly bu…

From my reading of the included proposal.txt, it uses steganography to have side-channel communications that look like other wifi communication near you.

I'm curious how this performs with fast motion and if it's a general-purpose sensor or only suitable for low light. Anyone know?