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by andor 11y ago
"You know that the Ariane 5 rocket crashed (and could have killed people!) because of an int overflow? What if people die because you decided the C standard allows you to optimize away other people's security checks?" Soun
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Sounds like a criminal offense, you should talk to the police.
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With great power comes great responsibility... if you don't want to be labeled a script kiddie, just send an email next time.
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by andor 11y ago
Counterexample: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lame/
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Neural networks are a relatively simple mathematical model. They don't actually "think" or have a conscience. Neural networks are also regularly fed books, in order to model some properties of natural language. Here's a
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Nice. If he says it, it must be true, he's infallible ;-) Can we also get pro vaccination and evolution statements, please?
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Better typography is "coming soon": "All-new typesetting engine lays out words just as the author intended for beautiful rendering of pages. With improved character spacing and the addition of hyphenation, justification, ker
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Text messaging works without plugins. The plugin is for audio and video.
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Skype for Web(web.skype.com)
2 points by andor 11y ago|2 comments
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Introducing the Fairphone 2(fairphone.com)
1 points by andor 11y ago|0 comments
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Quick summary of the keychain "crack": Keychain items have access control lists, where they can whitelist applications, usually only themselves. If my banking app creates a keychain item, malware will not have access. But malware
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800km is not so far, it's much closer than Europe to North America, US East Coast to West Coast, etc. A round-trip at speed of light should take about 5.3ms.
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Technically it might be completely rebuilt, but I guess that most people won't notice. They added more animations and a video element on top, both of which makes it slower. As functionality and layout are the same as in the old version
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It's also misleading because nothing optimal is faster than A* . Quote from AIMA: " A∗ is optimally efficient for any given consistent heuristic. That is, no other optimal algorithm is guaranteed to expand fewer nodes than A∗ (exc
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by andor 11y ago
Not necessarily. One of the ideas behind unikernels is very fast boot time, so that you can start a new instance for every tenant. Another idea is reduced complexity...
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Cool, but arguably a layering violation. It's the job of the operating system.
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Does Bitcoin mixing work well enough to anonymize transfers of this size?
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How do they intend to transfer $100,000 to an anonymous source?
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The port with the lightning bolt might charge devices even when the laptop is turned off.
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Reading Just Got Better(amazon.com)
5 points by andor 11y ago|1 comments
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AFAIK the secure element for Google Wallet is part of the NFC chip.
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Solidworks is parametric, too. You don't need code for that.
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The WhatsApp client is not official or licensed, I guess? I wonder how WhatsApp deals with such third-party clients that end up with a large user base?
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It seems to be an active stylus with a pressure sensor.
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Same for me, seriously.
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According to this thread, the overhead over pure WSGI seems low: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/python-tulip/AgKcuC-... I'm wondering why the framework benchmark results are so different, even t
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API Hour Python asyncio framework(github.com)
2 points by andor 11y ago|1 comments
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I was guessing. The only user number I can find for Map Maker is 25000 in 2013, but there's no reference and it's not clear how many of those are active. http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/google-map-maker
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by andor 11y ago
Oh. I thought you were trying to restart just the cellular modem. Cyanogenmod has a dedicaded reboot option, I don't know whether it's possible with stock Android.
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by andor 11y ago
Is the new time picker widget in Android 5 more efficient for anybody? It makes me angry every time I have to use it, please just give me a numeric keypad instead!

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