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His HN handle is JeffreySnover; He is commenting on this story at this moment.

> I still don't understand how this myth that they wrote Edge from scratch even came to be.

Because people confuse Microsoft marketing fluff with reality?

"Microsoft Edge is built from the ground up to improve productivity, to be more secure, and to correctly, quickly and reliably render Web pages. While Microsoft Edge is the default browser for Windows 10 and is the best fit for most users, some enterprise customers have line-of-business applications built specifically for older Web technologies, which require Internet Explorer 11." [0]

"We designed Microsoft Edge from the ground up to prioritize power efficiency and deliver more battery life" [1]

"Microsoft Edge is designed from the ground up to provide a modern, interoperable, and secure browsing experience"[2]

[0] https://blogs.microsoft.com/firehose/2016/05/19/improvements...

[1] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/06/20/more-...

[2] https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/06/07/edge-enterpri...

It would be nice to have a tooltip for the black bar to see who has died.

Isn't this the OOPSLA '89 paper? (it says 1987 in the title)

DNS weirdness on this side of the pond. This link works for me: http://131.84.179.51/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a228507.pdf

Different themes are available depending on your taste. Just pick one from the style combo box at the top right.

original blog post: https://ret2libc.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/a-tale-of-ebay-xss...

On my computer the exploit is caught by noscript.

The AXIOM, a 4K camera uses a RISC-V

http://riscv.org/workshop-jan2016.html

OP may be referring to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10716102

"15 Biggest Ships Create More Pollution Than All Cars in the World (2013)"

Some of the sources used in this article are not at all of the quality I have come to expect from the NY Times. Sources like the Daily Mail and "www.searchautoparts.com".

Thanks for that. I tried to find a better link, but my google-fu got stuck in 2015 it seems :)

This was already illegal in pre-WTO times; The European Economic Community filed a complaint under GATT rules (and won).

The backdrop (and reason) for this smuggling operation was the 1986 US.-Japan semiconductor trade agreement. A fascinating read can be found here (pdf):

http://www.nber.org/chapters/c8717.pdf

The cell chemistry only plays an indirect role here (neither zinc nor lithium are terribly healthy in a child's body I guess).

The lithium batteries are thrown away with a fair bit of energy remaining: Internal resistance will go up too far to be useful to power something, but the cell can still electrolize when inside the body.

Zinc-air primaries on the other hand tend to be completely empty when removed from the hearing aid; they have a really nice flat discharge profile.

The article is about lithium-based batteries. Zinc-Air batteries killing children is news to me. link?

For more information on these experiments by Eremets & Drozdov:

www.nature.com/news/superconductivity-record-sparks-wave-of-follow-up-physics-1.18191

http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08190

Yes, those were called S1 players. You could build your own custom firmware for them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S1_MP3_player

Here's a 3D schematic of what an Erdstall would look like:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151217104816/http://erdstall.d...

orange: entrance

yellow: shaft used during construction, later filled up

At the moment the limiting factor is energy -- The energies required to create these collisions (and hence, the possibility of these new particles) is enormous. In a way that's the only way the LHC exisists; to create higher energy collisions than before. As for computing values: It's nice to have a theory, but it's nicer still to have it confirmed/falsified by expermiment.

I respectfully disagree. 1) The Manhattan project is not comparable in scope: Both the UK and France developed nuclear weapons on their own. 2) This is not a European project per se. Most of the developed nations in the world contribute, and as such this is very much a project for and by humanity itself.

really nice, thanks! another client for your timeline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Internet_Users_Essen...

>This is because they are designed to be portable to a wide variety of compilers and target devices which might have limits that weren't envisioned at the time of writing the standard.

That's not really the case here, is it? If anything the bug is in the standard.

Could you point to the gcc bug? Note: the standard does not require a non-deterministic random_device, at least C++11 doesn't, so the behaviour as described in the stackoverflow link would be allowed.