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There are a many of news articles and youtube videos which present HFT as a bad thing. Since large orders are filled by different markets, anyone who has studied the mechanisms via…

http://www.lib.ru/GIBSON/neuromancer.txt_with-big-pictures.h...

When I was in India I got antibiotics OTC a few times for myself after I self diagnosed using the internet. Because my mum went to med-school I was always very aware about the need…

What is "A MBA running Debian for doing most things" ?

Yep. I see what you mean. activesupport-3.2.11/lib/active_support/core_ext/hash/conversions.rb has a -- DISALLOWED_XML_TYPES = %w(symbol yaml) -- which is used by its def typecast_…

On a patched server I see a Hash::DisallowedType (Disallowed type attribute: "yaml") exception raised by activesupport. As a simpler test-case, I modified the rails_rce.rb ( for CV…

On linux I used espeak. ping google.com | ruby -ne '$_ =~ /time=(.*)/ && system("espeak", "-s 120", $1);'

I saw the /gigapans/ in the URL and googled for it, thinking it must be a super intelligent panoramic "image sticher"+"image viewer" written in flash - but found this: http://en.wi…

My first real programming job involved building web apps using OpenACS - http://openacs.org/ . OpenACS was all Tcl executing in AOLServer and used postgres or oracle. It was awesom…

Someone told me that Accenture build it in India - poetic justice, I'd think, if that was indeed true.

There was an article in linux-journal that described how linux was being used at JPL : http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7570 From what I understand, Linux runs the rover simulat…

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I recently discovered an old chemistry book that is supposedly banned from publication, but since it's not under any copyright anymore we can download it with breaking any rules : …

The idea of detecting change in the amount of light is also used by the PulseSensor - http://pulsesensor.myshopify.com/blogs/news/6326816-anatomy-...

I haven't used airbnb but after reading some of the comments here, I looked up the airbnb site to check if they have tools/features which try to address the "I am renting to a tota…

For me FB is the proverbial ghost town - because I am no longer interested in the contents of activity feed I get on FB :-p . I am sure my opinions don't matter much, after all, I …

I am from India and I am pretty concerned about terrorism, but I am assuming that the people/businesses who will end up following such rules would most probably be the people who a…

==> Is it implied that since the average American doesn't like some work, America is being afforded a chance to uplift "Chinese farmers" and whole bunch of other poor people? Is it…