Graders at the University of Michigan are willfully unaware of it because we want students to have some coding style. You'd be surprised how many have to be repeatedly slapped around until they get a real programmer's editor instead of trying to use gedit without configuring it.
I'm a little confused about what point the article is trying to make. I don't think that the many-core folks have ever said that they're building many-core because people want it; I've consistently heard that it's because of Moore's Law collapse, as admitted in the article.
If it were economical to produce faster uniprocessors instead, you can bet that chip companies would do it, because they'd make more money that way.
This should actually mean I don't need to visit facebook.com anymore if there is indeed POP3 or IMAP access, because (presumably) they will send full messages to Titan rather than the current "you have a new message NOW CLICK ME", and POP3 access to Titan means that I can get Facebook messaging through GMail.
The catch is probably going to be a lack of SMTP...
The warning isn't spurious, by the way. A man in the middle could inject evil JS into urchin.js (or whatever the equivalent is now) just as easily as he could inject it into your site's JS; the page is not secure.
A secondary method for authenticating updates would also be wise. When Moxie Marlinspike's null-prefix SSL bug landed, people with vulnerable versions of Firefox were somewhat screwed: Firefox used only SSL to ensure the authenticity and integrity of updates, but SSL was broken, so the update fixing SSL security couldn't be authenticated!
I hate to be HN's resident word Nazi, but you want to s/reign/rein/. "Reign" is roughly "to rule", where as "rein it in" is a reference to the reins used to make a horse stop.
Is "close to 50%" the going marginal tax rate in general? I calculate ~30% federal + ~10% California + possibly ~6% social security & Medicare to get that number; did I miss anything? (current grad student with a marginal rate a lot closer to 20%, haven't had the joy of full-on taxes yet)
Still doesn't hold. Idaho is neither a separate country, nor, more importantly, is it home to established organizations with ties to the government of said separate country, overtly dedicated to terrorist activity founded on extremist beliefs. Renting trucks isn't particularly analogous with flying to such a place. Policemen are not customs agents at a border crossing.
Your analogy does not hold, as the guy was not prevented from doing anything. He was questioned, searched, and spied on by the FBI. As far as we know, no direct, material harm came to him.
It's not entirely clear to me that I don't want a person who crosses our borders in the circumstances that the author of the article did and carrying the things that the author of the article carried grilled to see if he cracks. Can you imagine what would happen if someone carried those things across a border, did NOT get grilled based on the "would be really inept" arguments, and then committed a terrorist act? We'd be calling for the screeners' heads, and quite probably would be right to do so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche is probably the term, although the context in which "synecdoche" is used is generally analysis of literature / "English class."
A flaw: I might vote neutral as "I agree with this comment's current point value." In that light, 20 up, 5 down, and 500 neutral is a fairly confidently ranked 16-point comment, but 20 up, 5 down, and 0 neutral is not. However, the less confident one should be "floated" to a small portion of users to get more votes.
Cython is not a bad story for C interop, though. See e.g. pyevent (http://code.google.com/p/pyevent/), which provides Python bindings to libevent. Be warned: until there's a new release of pyevent (0.4), you should, in my opinion, use the SVN version.