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by feb 8y ago
Harriet Hall from Science Based Medecine finds Denise Mingers critiques good and well researched: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-china-study-revisited/
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by feb 8y ago
A few weeks ago, I hoped 3geonames could become a standard. But it has some painful limitations: The system picks very unusual names. For example STOCARDA-KRRABA-SIPLA is in Germany, but doesn't use the German name of the city. (For th
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by feb 8y ago
Very cool approach which relies on the sponge construction of Keccak/SHA-3 fame. The presentation at Blackhat 2017 explains well the core ideas as well as the context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTGLO4obxco
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by feb 8y ago
That news hit HN top stories a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17732912
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by feb 8y ago
The similarities with webhint are striking. For example they have mostly the same categories : * Performance (exactly same as webhint) * PWA (exactly same name as webhint) * Accessibility (exactly same as webhint) * Best Practices * SEO Web
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by feb 8y ago
People tried to scam people involved in TRON via Reddit : https://cryptovest.com/news/tron-genesis-hard-fork-an-elabor...
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by feb 8y ago
The previous posts of this serie have been discussed on HN: * Doing Windows, Part 1: MS-DOS and Its Discontents ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17403351 ) * Doing Windows, Part 2: From Interface Manager to Windows ( ht
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by feb 8y ago
Interestingly, it looks like Intel is making MIPS SoCs too according to patches sent for the Linux kernel : https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-clk/msg27348.html .
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by feb 8y ago
And the announcement from the Git project is at https://marc.info/?l=git&m=152761328506724&w=2 . See also CVE-2018-11233 and 11235.
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by feb 9y ago
Turbolinks is a feature in Rails. See for example https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks
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by feb 9y ago
Someone said the same thing in the comments. In a reply, the author does not know why the MD5 fails but confirms that the post is correct: I wondered if anyone would check :-). I'm not sure what the problem is with the first pos
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by feb 11y ago
In the video, Andrew creates music live on his laptop by writing a few lines of Scheme. Besides the musical aspects, the video also provides an example of changing snippets code on the fly. The snippets can be started while the rest of the
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by feb 12y ago
Unfortunately, they only make the frame harder to steal. Wheels will be stolen and they are more expensive to replace. To protect a bike from theft, one shold lock the wheels and the frame to some fixed anchor. See for example whet bike gur
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by feb 14y ago
As said by Hamano, if you want encryption, use an encrypted file system. Besides cryptfs, Encfs uses FUSE and works well too ( http://www.arg0.net/encfs ).
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by feb 14y ago
It gets more interesting when adding google code which started before github: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=sourceforge%2C%20gith... Looks like google "stole" mindshare from sourceforge.
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by feb 14y ago
For example, an advanced garbage collector can group the remaining allocations together, reducing the fragmentation and potentially increasing cache hits.
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A simpler, webbier approach to Web Intents (or Activities)(benlog.com)
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by feb 14y ago
When adding locking without evaluating all locking paths, how can you be sure none of those paths cause a deadlock ?
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by feb 15y ago
According to the text in the votewatch report you linked, the European Peope party voted against the proposition from the left in order to get their version to pass : "However, to win on this issue, the EPP and ECR first had to reject the
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by feb 15y ago
In the article the author claims the price reductions came from technology improvements. But some say they are caused by the entry of the Chinese on the market with heavy subsidies and dumping practices ( http://www.grist.org/solar-power/20
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by feb 15y ago
Google is not the first one who funded IV and gets sued. Xilinx had the same experience. http://gametimeip.com/2011/09/07/xilinx-lawsuit-reveals-more...
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by feb 15y ago
Reading the thread, it's surprising how much work is still needed to merge the D frontend (GDC) into the GCC project: * Assign copyright to the FSF which requires contacting all authors including those who are MIA. * Update the code to the
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by feb 15y ago
A big lesson from this post (at least for me) is how much user interface affects security. He references an older paper "Why Johnny Can't Encrypt" ( http://www.gaudior.net/alma/johnny.pdf ) where the negative impacts of the user interface i
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by feb 15y ago
That depends on the CPU used. Modern CPU have more arithmetic units than logical units and can perform more divisions than bit shifts. There was a good video presentation of that, but I can't find the link now. EDIT: http://blogs.msdn.com
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by feb 15y ago
Doing an X-ray every year even when it is not needed, does cost more and does not improve your health. Actually, your body gets more doses of radiations increasing the risks. Thus one can say that at the more expensive place your health get
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by feb 15y ago
Yes, they are back in the index: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388635,00.asp And in a simple test, it looks to work too: http://www.google.com/search?q=copiepress+lalibre+critique The second link (lesoir.be) is one of the new
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by feb 15y ago
Games which do more than entertain are exceptionnal which makes your idea exceptionnal too. As CF is a genetic disease, how does a game help ?
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by feb 16y ago
"Mr. Tetuan said there are currently 32 Mark 1 boiling water reactors operating safely around the globe. “There has never been a breach of a Mark 1 containment system,” he said." As the containment system is stressed only in case of failure
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by feb 16y ago
Can users of the Visa concierge service here on HN confirm or is this a good advertisement for extra Visa services ?
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by feb 16y ago
With Firefox (Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100402 Namoroka/3.6.3), I also got this warning. Detecting the browser instead of the features is often bad practice: http://www.jibbering.com/faq/

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