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541.
For 18 minutes, China hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic(webcache.googleusercontent.com)
224 points by pc 16y ago|57 comments
542.
MongoDB's lead developer: Foursquare outage post mortem(groups.google.com)
329 points by pc 16y ago|174 comments
543.
Computers don't dumb down math education(blog.wolfram.com)
2 points by pc 16y ago|1 comments
544.
by pc 16y ago
"I'll have a hard time rooting for its success, though, when Jessica seems to routinely make mistakes like this" is both pompous and mean. She's 20, and seems to be doing a pretty good job all considered. If you really believe she's screwin
545.
by pc 16y ago
A = projected area, which is the same if our objects are the "same shape". As for the rocks, you're applying benefit of hindsight. Say I show you a balloon filled with air and a balloon filled with water falling at obviously different speed
546.
by pc 16y ago
"This is easily disproved by dropping a heavy object and a light object of the same shape from a high place and seeing which hit the ground first. Yet it took over a thousand years before anyone thought to try this experiment." Not to be
547.
by pc 16y ago
This proposal is operationally stupid and morally dubious. From an operational/supply-chain standpoint: Manufacturing happens in the Pearl River Delta in China for two reasons: speed and cost. The cost is not so much a function of the cheap
548.
by pc 16y ago
Nitpick: the beautiful thing about Smalltalk's continuation support is that it's not provided by the compiler. (As far as I know, Squeak still doesn't ship with continuation support built-in.) Despite this, because stack frames are first
549.
by pc 16y ago
The Zuckerberg hate is lame. The guy is 26, and has grown up while building what's almost certainly the most significant tech company to be started since Google. Despite the challenges inherent in building a company whose currency is person
550.
YC has just closed a new $8.25 million fund(ycombinator.posterous.com)
238 points by pc 16y ago|98 comments
551.
by pc 16y ago
I'm 21. I wrote a bit about how I ended up getting into Lisp at http://lemonodor.com/archives/001038.html . (And I'm glad I did, because I can hardly remember now.)
552.
by pc 16y ago
Yishan Wong (early Facebook employee) gave an excellent answer to this question on Quora: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-potential-obstacles-to-Dia... . (Quora is still in private beta, but I'd imagine many HNers have accounts.)
553.
by pc 16y ago
What makes you think they mean it pejoratively? There are sites describing strong AI skeptics, paranormal activity skeptics, quantum computing skeptics, extra-terrestrial life skeptics. It's the reasons for their skepticism that matters.
554.
Google, don't politicalize yourself — China's official news agency(news.xinhuanet.com)
43 points by pc 17y ago|78 comments
555.
by pc 17y ago
When you're paying $50+/hour[1], I find a sense of entitlement somewhat justified. [1] $40k/year / (5 hours/day * 5 days/week * 32 weeks/year)
556.
by pc 17y ago
He took bribes and he should be driven out of the industry like the parasite he is. He's a rat, through and through. It's actually a different kind of person that's an unfortunate presence in online tech debates.
557.
by pc 17y ago
It depends what you mean by "pattern", but it hasn't been shown that pi is a normal number. (I.e., that every sequence of digits is equally likely to occur.)
558.
by pc 17y ago
Right—it hasn't even been proved that the decimal expansion of pi doesn't eventually revert to a digit sequence containing only 1s and 0s. (Or any other two digits.)
559.
by pc 17y ago
It's common. GA aircraft have quite rigorous maintenance schedules, with inspection and overhaul every 50 or 100 hours, which (mostly) keeps even old planes airworthy. Almost all airfields will have plenty of 30 or 40 year old planes.
560.
by pc 17y ago
(Attribution: I found it on Fallows's blog: http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2010/01/thought... )
561.
US states redrawn so as to have equal populations(jamesfallows.theatlantic.com)
75 points by pc 17y ago|34 comments
562.
Ask HN: What's your favorite scientific paper?
67 points by pc 17y ago|40 comments
563.
by pc 17y ago
There's no need to be snide about it.
564.
by pc 17y ago
Though the overall point may be correct, it weakens philg's argument to claim that a non-US pilot may become "Captain at Major Airline" after just 20 hours of pilot-in-command time: that's just not true for any jurisdiction I'm aware of (th
565.
by pc 17y ago
This really drives home how bad the space-based ("Aurora"?) theme of 10.5 and 10.6 is: when we look at this in ten years, I think the screenshots of 10.5 and 10.6 will have aged the worst. There's something timeless about the earlier Mac OS
566.
by pc 17y ago
Worthless linkbait, and misses the point entirely. Namely: how many iPhone developers are making decent revenue from a web app? Mobile Safari could be the most powerful web experience in the world, but without a simple, trusted payment mech
567.
Google predicts iPhone launch in 2010(google.com)
3 points by pc 17y ago|1 comments
568.
by pc 17y ago
They're spelled "Foucault" (ggp) and "Eco".
569.
by pc 17y ago
It may be poorly named, but they're completely different. iGoogle is a custom homepage. Dashboard is a summary of the personal information about you that they store.
570.
by pc 17y ago
If only. A significant fraction of apps use installers. Regardless, it's much easier to tick checkboxes with Ninite than it is to individually track files down.

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