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by ArchD 15y ago
I don't know why you got downvoted. Your idea is valid and people may not have realized that htonl has friends an relatives that totally make the issue of the article moot. #define _BSD_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros
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by ArchD 15y ago
"$5,000 to open a business" -- citation?
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by ArchD 15y ago
You'll probably see that you don't have an account registered with the website through Twitter, not "none of my data". As a user, if you like FB more, you'll likely try FB login first. If you like Twitter more, you'll likely try Twitter log
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by ArchD 15y ago
FB is very well-known by virtue of its huge user base. This probably means that many people from among its user base will consider buying at the IPO. Whether or not the stock is "correctly price", only a small fraction of that huge user bas
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by ArchD 15y ago
Obviously, this is a simplification. Infants die for other reasons that you can think of to be different from the reasons for which old people die (e.g. cancer), and these reasons are being factored out of the graph.
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by ArchD 15y ago
I don't know how large your project is, but you could use a parallel build solution such as Icecream to dramatically shorten your build time, especially if your project is composed of numerous compilation targets.
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by ArchD 15y ago
I couldn't find a way to control affinity with the C++11 thread feature. That seems like a good reason to stick with pthread.
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Ask HN: Need ideas for a talk to a class of business informatics students
1 points by ArchD 15y ago|0 comments
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by ArchD 15y ago
Maybe someone should follow up and do a similar study for multiple fields and see whether the difference in error rate between fields is statistically significant.
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by ArchD 15y ago
I thought preventing unwanted interference between devices was what FCC rules were for. Couldn't they design aircraft equipment to tolerate radio waves from devices meeting certain FCC standards?
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Downgrading the US(aljazeera.com)
2 points by ArchD 15y ago|0 comments
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by ArchD 15y ago
Is it possible that human beings in "developed nations" are too comfortable to seriously want innovation as a whole? If your basic physical needs as a society are already met, what motivation do you have to develop better technology? Perhap
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by ArchD 15y ago
Perhaps it means that you can't dictate the value of an instrument to somebody else. Everyone makes his own assessment of an item, so if someone wants to buy it from you above what you think it's worth, or conversely, sell it to you below w
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by ArchD 15y ago
Do browsers use the color profile for displaying the image? If so, wouldn't this affect the appearance of the image?
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by ArchD 15y ago
AFAIK, there are government regulations about nuclear experiments they would trigger if there was a big audience, so they showed the machine to 1-2 people at a time as a workaround.
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by ArchD 15y ago
Useful information. That explains why I was having so much trouble navigating with mapping software on my Android phone when I visited. Now, I wonder if there's a workaround.
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by ArchD 15y ago
Down-vote and run?
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by ArchD 15y ago
It depends on how you draw the boundaries for an 'entity'. A sufficiently large company may have many departments trading in different ways fairly independently. If you are going to tell people, "You can't sell/buy sooner than X seconds aft
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by ArchD 15y ago
Sure, bakers who know they need wheat in six months can buy some futures for six months from now. Then, what is the problem that TFA is talking about? I thought it was about poor countries being impacted by the price spike resulting from th
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by ArchD 15y ago
Well, I'm not necessarily suggesting it for right now, but as a general strategy. But, if the governments were to short the futures right now, who's to say the price will not increase? It's a risk. If they can be sure, other entities can al
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by ArchD 15y ago
Maybe what I was suggesting wasn't clear enough. If you need food in 100 days, you can pay for the futures for that day, or in 100 days the actual spot price, whatever it turns out to be in 100 days. You generate demand for the futures or t
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by ArchD 15y ago
I'm wondering if there's something preventing the government of vulnerable countries from buying futures themselves to shield their own people from violent price fluctuations like these, i.e. hedge against price increase for food commoditie
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by ArchD 15y ago
Informative as they are, the graphs don't show the complete information. For example, they don't show the effects of various deductions and other ways the actual tax for individuals can be reduced, and they don't show the treatment of capit
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by ArchD 15y ago
Notwithstanding the right and wrong of this case, if Patrick Webster had done all his investigation anonymously, e.g. through Tor, and expressed his findings to First State Super in a way that does not imply that he actually downloaded anyt
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by ArchD 15y ago
If you were a purely profit-minded trader in a situation where you have the chance to make a million with 50% chance and lose a thousand with 50%, and in the scenario where you lose a thousand, other members of society take a collective los
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by ArchD 15y ago
If you are a really good or lucky trader, you can make money in any kind of market. Some banks made up the dubious CDS from questionable house loans, making tons from selling them, and then made money again by shorting them. AIG was one of
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by ArchD 15y ago
I suspect that this has something to do with the competitive nature of human beings. Publicly praising/endorsing a famous living person on one hand gives him more power, and on the other hand encourages antagonism from the detractors/enemie
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by ArchD 15y ago
I'm not sure what precisely you mean by "transparency of trading". One of the common goals of trading is minimize the revelation of information about your intentions that other traders can exploit against you. Trading is like warfare--being
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by ArchD 15y ago
I'm guessing a -1 button would be only as attractive to FB as a dislike button. With a -1 and dislike button comes a visible downside to being present on FB, especially for organizations, the potential to be unpopular in a tangible, measura
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by ArchD 15y ago
Don't confuse sharing with data collection. Data about a user's activities can be collected without sharing that data with the user's friends.

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