unklefolk

I live not too far from Scunthorpe and heard a story that Scunthorpe county council rolled out a new spam filter on the own email servers and no one in the council could sent any emails that day as they all got blocked. This was a few decades ago and I can’t find a source but there are references to the origin here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

Seems that the four wings rotate around the central unit creating centrifugal force that will keep the cables tight.

This article about Harrison Okene whose boat sank is interesting in terms of surviving in an air bubble underwater (and seems somewhat analogous to the cave situation).

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...

It is very difficult for those who have already had children to consider, if in retrospect, it was the right decision. Once you have children it is no longer a cool, abstract decision. The subject in question (the child) has been made real and it is difficult to reflect on the decision to have children without considering the living, breathing person in front of you and how that person would not have existed had you chosen otherwise.

That's a good question. Here is a link to the numbers:

http://thehackernews.com/2015/10/cryptowall-ransomware.html

That averages out at $800 per infection compared to about $0.30 per infection from WannaCry. I suspect there are other factors at play here (was all the revenue from ransoms? were that target systems different? are people hardening in their resolve not to pay these ransoms?).

I think this venn diagram explain part of the problem:

https://www.trustar.co/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/WannaCryVe...

I suspect the long term plan is to create a training dataset labelled by the 3000 people and, when they have sufficient training data, let machine learning / AI take over.

This looks awfully like set theory and SQL. I wonder what the SQL equivalent for each concept would look like. For example (picking the easy one!) marginal probability for long hair would be:

SELECT SUM(CASE WHEN LongHair=1 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) / SUM(1.0) FROM B

Does Tesla try to justify this practice anywhere? Buying a software for a superior navigation system I understand but hobbling the performance of a car seems pretty shady.

Don't understand the "...One of the (mostly hated) features of the (mostly hated) language was that any statement required a line number...". Basic was a wonderful entry level language - user friendly and understandable. It introduced countless kids to programming. It never pretended to be some enterprise level, hardcore language and it was certainly more readable than the code accompanying the article:

cmd=$(sed -n "/$label:/{:a;n;p;ba};" $0 | grep -v ':$')

Here are some comments prompted by a similar question that I asked on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9255305

A pre-pre order holding page. Before this webpage I guess we were in a pre-pre-pre order state?

I wonder if this will evolve into large flat screen tvs (50 inch plus) folding down when not in use (just like a portable projector screen). That would be a nice feature for those who don't like having a huge TV on display.

I would be interested to hear other folks experience with TypeScript. We have move virtually all of the project I work on over to TypeScript but I am not seeing metrics improve (less bugs, quicker to fix etc). Gripes include lots of boilerplate TypeScript being generated and another learning curve for new starters (nearly everyone knows JS).

What are other folks experiences? Has it helped or hindered?

I don't understand why they have added a tiny speaker to this gadget. It wouldn't imagine it is very loud and in most cases would be stuck around the back of your TV. Could someone enlighten me to when a speaker would be useful?

Select Eric Satie's Gymnopedies and just hit the keys as fast as possible at a regular tempo. It sounds like a free-wheeling jazz version (think John Coltrane)! :-)

The reference is to Crockford not liking typing. Here is one link backing that up: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DouglasCrockfordEsq/posts/MgzNU...

I guess the only way it is a strange comparison is if you are imagining a 60,000ft high mountain in which case the two things are quite different. I wouldn't relish either challenge, but climbing a 60,000ft mountain would be a much greater challenge due to the altitude (which would include small inconveniences like your blood boiling!)

Honest question here from someone new to React. Isn't the way it mixes in HTML, CSS classes and JS altogether something we were trying to get away from a few years ago? It feels a bit like old school ASP! I'm not trying to be flippant, I just was always taught about separation and mixing HTML markup with JS logic seems like we are going the other way.

I didn't realise this. However, it would seem that it isn't as clear cut as you suggest:

(From Wikipedia):

The generally accepted highest summit is Mount Elbrus (5,642 m or 18,510 ft) in the Caucasus, appearing on both the Bass and Messner lists. However, because the location of the boundary between Asia and Europe is not universally agreed upon, its inclusion in Europe is disputed: if the Kuma–Manych Depression is used as geological border between Asia and Europe, Caucasus and Elbrus lie wholly in Asia. If the Greater Caucasus watershed is used instead, Elbrus' peaks are wholly in Europe, albeit close to the border with Asia. Mont Blanc (4,810 m or 15,781 ft), lying on the border between France and Italy in the Graian Alps, is seen by some to be the highest mountain in Europe.

"Bike Chain Lubrication"??

Do people really need to call someone out to oil a chain?

You need to click on "Let's play..." for it to start.

Which language required the most lines of code?

The ads on the free version are fairly frequent and rather annoying so avoiding that is a big plus.

Significant in that the title is "Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity..." so if you decide to judge popularity by page requests then I suspect twitter may be more 'popular' than Pinterest.

This theory is backed up by http://www.alexa.com/topsites/global;0 where Twitter is 12th and Pinterest is 30th.

Of course, popularity doesn't pay the bills!

If you look at the 'Frequency of social media site use' graph though Twitter is far more popular on a daily basis than Pinterest. This seems a more significant statistic.

http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/screen-s...