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> Fact of the matter is they’d like to personally profit off the same nonsense they complain about. Benn Jordan's YouTube channel is a registered Nonprofit https://www.patreon.com/…

Linus once quipped "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'."

One thing I'm not clear on when watching his videos is whether what he's describing is an established scientific interpretation, or his own thoughts as someone who has extensive kn…

If you want to avoid this kind of cheating, you need to approach the test as if it were proctored. Communicate the expectations up front: you'll be required to screenshare, have mi…

The same reason int(-1.999) is -1; The operation is different to integer division. I think of it as taking the "integer" part of the float.

Another vote for my Casio FX82. Ease and speed of use are why I prefer it to any calc apps. Though I'll admit that I have a bias towards physical, single purpose devices. I use a p…

> It helps that refrigeration has always sort of blown my mind, so this was an interesting topic as well. Same! It's been in the front of mind because I've recently been watching H…

I like that idea of having it probe the reasoning as much as the content, I'll definitely add that to the mix next time I try this.

I was intrigued by this idea and decided to give it a go on a subject I have only cursory knowledge of. The conversation is here ( https://chat.openai.com/share/50fe7120-a4eb-4c01-…

The linked security blog post[1] has a lot more of the technical details and can clear up some of the questions/confusion that people have added in the comments. [1] https://securi…

The sky crane solves a very particular set of problems with landing a (relatively) small, functional rover on Mars. It's not really a general solution to returning a large payload …

I think this is the version they were referring to: http://evancz.github.io/elm-todomvc/

I imagine they're actually alluding to a Bannerman, the standard bearer in an army.

Neat tip: You can just do: meta = r.json() and avoid the json import.

It's a manual process, so can take a while.

Completely agree. I'm surprised that, especially on HN, the large number of people who won't apply Occam's Razer to the situation. I imagine that most air accident investigations b…

The developer addresses this in his post-mortem thread. It a fascinating read, starts about half way down. http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=29750.645

Ross Anderson sums this up nicely in "Security Engineering": "I write ‘identity theft’ in quotes as it’s a propaganda term for the old-fashioned offence of impersonation. In the ol…

The user will enter their password on the provider's site via the phone browser. It relies on the user's trust of the system browser.

Not quite. The namedtuple will not have a per-instance attribute dictionary, so there is a significant memery saving when creating loads of them.

Attribute access of namedtuples aren't any quicker as you've surmised, it requires a hash lookup and an index lookup. Index lookup is as quick as normal tuple index lookups. The ma…

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7189334

Python 3.4 will have a pip installer bundled with it, which removes the easy_install pip farce.

I'd actually prefer a linux version of the Unity WebPlayer before the editor.

No, the output in the box is from the web console, which uses the GET-style URL as a concise way of showing POST requests.