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Actually it is. The article seems to describe an algorithm with a catastrophic failure mode where no (or not enough) ants return. Without retransmission the ants just hang around w…

The big deal in the UK, a few years ago, was that a person would go overdrawn, deposit money to cover it immediately but then get charged an overdraft fee by an overnight process. …

One advantage of solar is the requirement for an electrical grid is lessened, when photovoltaics get cheap enough the requirement for a grid is eliminated.

I don't know anyone who works for Facebook. I'm thousands of miles away from Facebook HQ. I keep careful tabs on who has what info about me and use many different email addresses.

My inbox.

IRC and email are federated systems, they have always been that way. The nature of the federation is different, email systems talk to each other, IRC systems don't. The issue with …

> They made it very clear to us during HR onboarding that the only zero tolerance policy was on unauthorized access to user data. Given that Facebook HR trawls user data to send jo…

Imagine you were to take the example further, unlocking the device required a sequence of fingerprint reads, with a precise ordering. i.e. left-ring finger, right index finger, rig…

Do any of them say it must be re-radiated omni-directionally as infra-red light?

So we can safely say that IMSI catchers have been used as a matter of routine since 2002.

It's almost certainly an offence under RIPA.

ITT: people who've never done an online resize

It's a search engine, so it searches for prices among many providers such as Expedia and Travelocity as well as individual airlines.

"the way it would seem to" {} initialises all elements to 0. {0} initialises the first element to 0 and the rest to 0. The latter form just introduces confusion.

I've not seen anyone use that construct anywhere.

tl;dr: Stop using Node, it only encourages them.

Works fine on my phone, yours must be broken.

The initialisers bit seems downright dangerously wrong. This code: uint32_t array[10] = {0}; Does not initialise every element to 0 in the way it would seem to. To see the differen…

I was kinda sceptical about the article until I saw the quotes advocating that DID is totally a real thing from the doctors. Then I was very sceptical.

Despite what everyone is saying here, the median salary in the uk is 26K. 40K puts you in the top 20% of earners. 100k would put you in the top 1%. Although people are quite right …

You'd be better off working out a way to compile smalltalk to FPGA.

> The article is about how people into "futurism", like people over at /r/futurism or a large part of HN's userbase, keeps wishing people would stop "concerning" themselves with so…

This isn't about money, this is about abuse of the trademark.

Those recordings are subject to the Data Protection Act. Most are blatantly not following the Data Protection Act, and as such are illegal.

> So, that's the thing, in some ways it's worse. It has more detail, it's voluntary and less intrusive. The one thing which is quite different is it's not a system to control peopl…