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...while I thought it would be covering Facebook's Flow project posted here a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8625222

While the submission title matches the article, it screams linkbait to me. I clicked fully expecting to read about a new 0 day exploit...

Yes, I got that too. >89.207.135.125 - - - "GET /cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi HTTP/1.0" 302 483 "-" "() { :;}; /bin/ping -c 1 198.101.206.138" ...searching for vulnerable CPanel inst…

I absolutely love Envy apples! They are very crisp and sweet without the tart flavor other crisp varieties seem to have. They also don't go brown after cutting for a very long time…

> Is that something I should pursue? I can only offer an emphatic YES . I think that there are enough geeks out there that would like to see this monopoly broken that I predict a K…

> "you can't even represent 0.1 in IEEE floating point" Not true, the IEEE 754-2008 standard provides a Decimal Floating Point specification in binary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

> "you can't even represent 0.1 in IEEE floating point" Not true, the IEEE 754-2008 standard provides a Decimal Floating Point specification in binary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

"fishes" refers to multiple species of fish, while "fish" is the correct plural form of a school of a single species.

> ...and you've saved money in the process too. This discussion hearkens back to the current investigation into John Swallow, the former Attorney General of Utah who resigned less …

Foreign Function Interface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_function_interface

I too experienced a plethora of lucid dreaming through my early twenties. Sometimes I would have a few a night for weeks. They tapered off gradually and I have maybe a few a year n…

20+ year C/C++ programmer here. I always use ++x unless the postfix version (x++) provides more succinct code. The postfix operator can incur a temporary variable to be created by …

Probably never. As any site in the top rankings is likely going to be using nginx as a reverse proxy to node.js.

As a C/C++ and graphics programmer, I love NaN. It allows saving space by not having to carry an extra is_valid boolean for uninitialized values or regions of data that are masked.…

This is exactly what Servo[1] is. [1] http://www.fastcolabs.com/3027664/under-the-hood-of-mozillas...

I came here to say the same. As a resident of Hawaii it often peeves me to see it left out of so many geographic info-graphics. Hawaii as a sizeable Polynesian pupulation, so my gu…

The work-around for 'x&(x-1)' I found is one-character longer: '(x&(~x+x+x))'

Yes, I've had one since early 2005 when a .edu email was required to signup. I have 0 friends and the only content is a single status post of: "I don't use facebook, please contact…

Gyft.com is my go to place for instant conversion of BTC to a medium (a gift card) I can spend in my local Target or CVS Pharmacy. Their reward system rebates 3% of BTC purchases.

If you are a DoD employee or contractor, then the answer is 'yes'. [1] http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2013/06/dod-classified/ (assuming there is classified information in the documen…

Yes. At the sit down dinners I often couldn't decide on an entree -- so I would just order both. Drinks (including soda, coffee, and of course alcohol) are very much not free thoug…

They charge 1% on every buy & sell -- so I don't think they're losing money.

No. Every US based cruise I've ever been on or heard about has free meals. Its common to hear people talk about gaining 10 lbs on a cruise because they ate so much.

A "Satoshi" already has the common usage/definition of 0.00000001 BTC -- the current smallest denomination. [1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#What_do_I_call_the_various_de...

What's your source for the '...seizure of 5% of all Bitcoins recently'? The FBI total seizure from Silk Road is 173,991 Bitcoins [1] -- which is about 1.45% of the Total BTC (11,95…