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enion "Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords

How trustworthy is /haveibeenpwned.com? Is there a chance the password people enter there for checking will end up in the databases?

enion Founder lived in a nursing home for 3 months to get his start-up off the ground

Is there a realistic alternative?

I read a lot on entrepreneurship during 19th century and early 20th century US. My limited understanding: in those days entrepreneurs came from much wider range of demographics. In other words, entry barriers were much less during those days.

enion Founder lived in a nursing home for 3 months to get his start-up off the ground

Very good observations. I think it partly explains why innovation is so hard in places where people live hand to mouth. It is simply excludes those demographics from participating in innovation and changing status quo.

enion Allocation is cheap in .NET until it is not

Thanks! Your example is pretty interesting. Any reason why this is the case? In both cases, it is just accessing a memory location to read the value. Are there compiler optimization heuristics at play here? E.g., for the local variable compiler knows that its value is not changing during the loop execution, so it can be pushed to register for faster access.

enion Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds

"turmeric lattes" :)

My kitchen medicine for running nose, soar throat is hot milk with turmeric. Works for me most of the times.

enion Allocation is cheap in .NET until it is not

Thanks!

enion Allocation is cheap in .NET until it is not

Can you please point to any resources that talk about heavy optimization options in c#. That 50-fold increase you talk about is very interesting. I would like to learn more.

enion Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds

it's not turmeric, it's curcumin, which is about 2% of turmeric by mass (so, you'd need to eat ~4.5g turmeric daily to match study doses)

Typical Indian cooking uses turmeric in pretty much everything. I wouldn't be surprised if daily consumption of turmeric is very close to the figures you mentioned.

enion Repeating Radio Signals Coming from Distant Galaxy Detected

1% of the Sun's output power seems really huge. Is this accurate? Any references?

enion Truth about Why the Wayback Machine or Internet Archive Was Blocked in India

Yesterday this news was on HN homepage. I just wanted to submit this clarification.

It seems like a weird decision by the courts to block websites randomly to prevent piracy of some movies.

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I think that is a very good advice.

Reminded me of my conversation with my son when he was three years old:

“I want to be brave. Tell me how to be brave” asked my darling son today before leaving for his school. I didn’t have an answer. As my eyes welled up, I asked if he is scared of anything in particular.”No, I am brave. I am not scared of anything” came back his reply.

https://introspeak.wordpress.com/2016/06/23/tell-me-how-to-b...

enion Eye-witness stories from Chernobyl

May be because we are used to dangers of water, and floods for millions of years.

On the other hand, dangers of nuclear is a very recent thing. Common people's primary recollection point of nuclear is probably nuclear bomb.

enion Down the Drain: How the Swachh Bharat Mission Is Heading for Failure

Interesting points!

I can't quite remember where I came across this (most likely in a TED talk), and details I can recollect are very vague but here is a horrifying tidbit from history:

In those days, apparently people used to collect excreta in some form of bins, and dump it out in the streets. People used to drop it from multi floor buildings also :(

It was mentioned that if a man is taking a woman on date, while walking in the street he has to keep the woman on the side of the street; While the man himself is walking on the side of the buildings (imagine man, woman walking hand in hand, side by side). Why? in case someone throws unpleasant things from a window above, it is the man who will take the (s)hit.

Sorry if it is unbelievably outrageous, but apparently that was our past :(

enion Down the Drain: How the Swachh Bharat Mission Is Heading for Failure

He is so obviously agenda driven and is abusing a lot of people with his use of derogatory remarks. He got away with it because, not many people here have the full context of his abuse.

I will leave you with this TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a...

Never build your worldview with what is provided by a hate-filled single sided opinion.

enion High prevalence of diabetes among people exposed to organophosphates in India

The original title of the article: "Gut microbial degradation of organophosphate insecticides-induces glucose intolerance via gluconeogenesis"

Why is the title in HN edited to make this about "India"? Is this finding not applicable to people elsewhere? or id other parts of the world stop using organophosphates?

enion India is set to launch a scale model of a reusable spacecraft on Monday

Official update from the space agency here has some technical details: http://www.isro.gov.in/update/23-may-2016/india%E2%80%99s-re...

enion Chinese Buy One-Third of Vancouver Homes: National Bank Estimate

$1,247,988 is the rough valuation. Their suggested EMI is around $6.8K/month. Would it be in reach for people getting $200K/yr? Are there enough Googlers getting that much?

enion UK surveillance powers bill could force startups to bake in backdoors

Any references for this please.

enion UK surveillance powers bill could force startups to bake in backdoors

can you elaborate on how that happened and when?

enion BloomFilter Experiments

can you elaborate on what happened?