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I think my favorite meme was "blue OP plz nerf" whenever Bob mentioned he was using more crimson than blue, because blue was much stronger. I thought that was an interesting mix of gaming and art culture.

Also, Kerbal Space Program.

Definitely agree for stack traces, but what about other debugger features like breakpoints, step-by-step execution, or memory introspection? When working with a large, multi-threaded system, I have found these features more trouble than they're worth.

EDIT: Grammar.

I wasn't, I'm pretty sure it was a blog post not an academic paper. Regardless, this paper looks awesome thanks for the link :D

An interesting point I read awhile ago (wish I could find the article) is that variable-length instruction sets (like x86) are preferred by authors of malicious software over fixed length sets because the binaries are harder to analyze. That is because in variable length ISAs, you must use a recursive decent parser to find all code paths in the program, because jump targets are specified in bytes or words instead of discrete instructions. This allows someone to jump into what might be the data portion of an instruction when parsed one way, and now the behavior totally changes because the bytes are being interpreted another way.

Man, I have some real cognitive dissonance when it comes to physical versus cyber crimes. If someone were to leave their car unlocked then have items stolen out of it, I would find the criminal despicable; people make mistakes and don't deserve to be robbed for it. When a company leaves its data vulnerable and someone steals from it, I find the company despicable, as if they were "asking for it". Apparently the hacker was trying to extort TalkTalk, so its hard to sympathize with him, but I still find myself blaming TalkTalk first. Its really hard to know what the right attitude towards these breaches is supposed to be.

My grandpa died of parkinson's, its a really slow and heartbreaking disorder. I think early diagnosis would be wonderful. It runs in the family, and his two older brothers and father had it, so he lived a very preventative lifestyle - especially with respect to daily exercise. I think it paid off, he lived to 85 while both his brothers died 20 years younger.

Very interesting, thanks for the clarification! I had always assumed that only alpha and beta particles constitute ionizing radiation.

I believe most Geiger counters measure ionizing radiation, and X-rays are electromagnetic radiation.

"In 1919, a tank of molasses in Boston collapsed. Molasses is thick, so you might think it would flow out slowly, but it didn't. The wave of molasses swept down the streets too fast to outrun, demolishing buildings and killing 21 people."

From (https://what-if.xkcd.com/111/), where I originally learned about this event :P

Mental exercise really is the right way to describe it. When I started bouldering, I always assumed it was purely about strength. But knowing the right way to approach a route, and how to position your weight, can be the difference between finishing easily or getting exhausted after a few holds.

Not that counterattacking is necessarily the best option, but from what I've heard from colleagues in China, the security ecosystem there is far worse than the US. Especially with respect to encryption, many companies and government services rely on poorly designed homebrew solutions.

I thought that bucket was large too, but then I realized it is only used for color, not size. So size of county is a more granular measure for housing measure, if that's what you're looking for.

EDIT: I see, you're saying the areas are hard to compare. Good point!

Or, are men with naturally lower testosterone levels more likely to stay in a single LTR?

Yeah I checked Google as well, but swapping children seemed too easy for an interview question. I'm wondering if it means restructuring the tree so a different node is the root. Trees have the property that any node can be the root and it is still a tree. Not sure just wondering if anyone had more info.

What does it mean to invert a binary tree? I'm not familiar with this operation on binary trees. Does it mean to swap parents with child nodes? Or to swap siblings?

"Vault is designed to be an equivalent, but designed to project a user’s important content."

Gotta love a typo that, hilariously, says the opposite of what is meant.

"python - is of course a Monty Python reference"

I had no idea! Makes me love it even more.

There is a really interesting documentary about world record arcade gamers called "The King of Kong" [0] that follows people who try to get top scores in Donkey Kong and other arcade games. Its enjoyable and interesting, I highly recommend it.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/

"They warn that owners with the freedom to inspect and modify code will be capable of violating a wide range of laws and harming themselves and others."

This argument is a bit silly, given how many laws can be broken and how much harm can be done by anyone behind the wheel of an automobile, regardless of how it has been modified.

This seems like it will be really useful for servers---I wonder how much it will matter for desktops though. Logging out and logging back in seems like a requirement for xorg, groups, etc. While it isn't a reboot, it still kills my windows and thus my workflow.

Seeing these pictures reminds me of this video of workers climbing a 1700ft TV tower [0]. Its pretty intense even to just watch, that is some real-world superhero courage right there!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k4Xk1mEwmI

Yep. For things that aren't "big data" (nearly everything), I've started to use in-memory SQLite databases for analysis. Just loading your data into a table makes doing all the selections/aggregations pretty simple if you're familiar with SQL and it fits in RAM.

This is certainly scary stuff, but I was a bit annoyed with the line:

"...consequences such as when Target notified a woman's family that she was pregnant before she even told them. "

I've heard this story referenced time and again with respect to motivating people to care about privacy and tracking. I'm all for privacy, but I feel like: (a) we should have more recent anecdotes about the consequences of tracking than a story from 2012, (b) the mechanism that Target used to infer this is far less intrusive (not making it OK) than what we see here, and (c) its really not strong enough an example.

Not that speculation is the way to go, but what about the possibility of someone being turned down for life insurance due to this information?

I like the idea, but my first thought was that Apple's iMessage social graph may not be interconnected enough to work. I think that a rating service needs some level of critical mass to succeed. Many restaurants on Yelp only have dozens of reviews globally; if we are going to restrict the pool of raters to first-hop contacts, I wonder if the average user will have enough contacts to get a significant sample size.

I don't think DNSSEC ensures the hostnames are secret. From RFC 4033 [0]:

"The DNS security extensions provide origin authentication and integrity protection for DNS data, as well as a means of public key distribution. These extensions do not provide confidentiality."

[0] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4033

This was my first reaction too, I've been using it for over a year and I had assumed patrons of HN knew all about it. For anyone who isn't familiar, this is a great library for getting machine learning code up and running quickly!

Well, the only reason you can make this criticism in the first place is because Android has an open issue tracker. You can't criticize iOS for doing this, because you can't see their issue tracker.

I can just as easily change my search query and show you all the bugs that were in fact fixed [0]. That seems to counter the claim that "the Android development process is going to be 100% closed". I'm not saying one OS is better than the other, but your comment seems more like angry ranting than a well thought out response.

[0] https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list?can=1&q=status...

Sold. This could have the added benefit that every leap year we can get two days off for new years eve, since people will be used to getting Feb 28th off anyway ;)

Okay, but can we come up with a calendar system where the months September, October, November, and December don't have the wrong names? It has always bothered me that the prefix sept- means seven, but it is the ninth month, oct- is for the tenth month, etc...