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I think we should define a low level learning virtual machine. Basically something like a C64 but updated to be a bit more modern. Have a virtual 4 core CPU that runs a fake machine code, have memory mapped IO so that you can put a pixel on a screen by writing a byte to memory, you can read a mouse position from a fixed memory address etc.

You could make it more advanced by using the IO. We could define things like a 3d graphics interface by defining virtual registers that take commands. Pretend hardware instead of an API.

Basically a fake blank computer for learning fun stuff on that's a bit more modern than an old spectrum of C64 but still (emulated) basic hardware and no layers or libraries...

Perhaps if it became popular people might create the actual hardware...
Hmm, I might make one :P
Hey. Many thanks for writing this great comment. I'm in that point where I'm still validating the idea while keep building the basis of the product. Once I feel I have a good product that I can monetise, I'd go for your advice of hiring or partner with someone experienced in marketing. Will definitely follow those tips!
About your first point: Evaluating how effective a charity is can be incredibly tricky, especially when they operate in a culture that's foreign to you. To be able to judge well, you would need to see them in action as well as have a thorough understanding of the situation on the ground. (An approach that worked brilliantly in one place can be the exact wrong thing to do in another situation, for example.)

In my experience, tiny one-project charities often do some of the best work, because they are often closer to the community and the day-to-day life of the people they serve than the big, global charities. Having said that, only the big charities have the necessary resources to tackle the big problems... I guess that's a tension we just have to live with.

BTW, I'm glad to hear you thinking about donating, we need a lot more people who do!
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Have you ever heard of 'space engine'[0]? It is not a game, more something like static a simulation. But the generation of random planets works kind of like you just described. There are no rocks or living objects on the surface (yet) but I think the generated geography is pretty and rich in features.

[0]: http://en.spaceengine.org/
You just answered it. He feels so American. People don't looking into a mirror of society.
Open source or not shouldn't be a constraint for spending resources and effort on code; it'd just mean development would be a bit slower and more tedious. But we're dealing with encryption here; if there's anything that should be done slowly, tediously and with an enormous amount of OCD, it's encryption software.
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Tesla, Panasonic to collaborate on solar manufacturing
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Thanks for the remark, that's totally true.
I'm certainly not letting my 2 year old on the Internet without me sitting next to her, so I'd want the filters disabled too. I am the filter.
Ask HN: Review my meal delivery startup
Hi,

I've been reading HN for a few years now but I've never posted anything here.

I've created a landing page to see how popular this product idea is. In a nutshell, I'm working on an app which will allow anyone to order a hearty salad to their location of choice. This could be on a subscription model or one off purchases. The aim is to help busy people eat well without the hassle of preparing their own food.

http://prefundia.com/projects/view/hearty-salads/10792/

I'm a product manager by day and I am outsourcing the development of the app. My business partner is a seasoned chef and deliveries will be outsourced to a logistics team.

Does the business model sound viable?

Thanks,

Ade
HeartySalads
I think p-hacking is a form of BS. So a lot of PhD students, post docs, and tenured researchers are engaged in BS. Then there's impact statements for research topics that obviously have no societal impact. And yet statements get written and funding is allocated.

So it's not clear to me what your challenge is trying to get at. BS is rife everywhere. Maybe you meant, "try being a researcher without having to resort to BS".
The flagging is occurring because it doesn't take many people to flag a topic in order for it to disappear. So that is an issue of simple mechanics.

I do not recall any complaints about financial aid being given to Clinton from Silicon Valley. Compare that to the vitriol dedicated to one person going in the other direction. That there is bias is unmistakable.

If you want to talk censorship you should look at the fact that a right wing opinion will get you downvoted on HN.

If you don't believe it, try making an account and make some standard right of center statements. It's like playing with one hell of a golf handicap.
When single-stepping, it's necessary to step only one thread, to ensure that other threads don't skip the (temporarily) disabled breakpoint. There's a paper here that discusses one solution to the problems this causes: http://www.bmrtech.com/uploadfile/image/whitepaper/mentorpap...

(You can engineer a deadlock in gdb due to this, e.g., on x64, by stepping over a SYSCALL instruction that reads from a pipe that's about to be filled by another thread. But you're unlikely to experience this in practice, as system calls are wrapped by a glibc function, and you'll probably be stepping over that rather than the instruction directly.)
How to design “trust” for your software
The name is misleading, you must concede.
Don't forget prions. They survive temperatures above 120C and also alcohol and remain infectious. (Hydrogen peroxide and alkalis seem too work, but see [1] because I really know nothing of the science of sterilization.)

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21271212/
This is all becoming very anecdotal, so I'll just have to disagree.

Everyone trying to hide their anger all the time leads to fake, sterile interactions, and pent up hostility, in my opinion.

We'd be a lot healthier of a society if we didn't project and expect a perfect image of everyone all the time.
And then you have companies like Buzzfeed that have said "Ok, the deal has changed. We're ok with the new terms." and go hog wild changing their business model to adapt to the new reality.

It is truly fascinating to watch.
If you have windows "Pro".... Which most people won't have.
Arsenic in Bangladesh: how to protect 20M from world's largest poisoning
While we're listing anime, Neon Genesis Evangelion?

If it's to angsty for you, go watch Rebuilt, but the angst is part of the charm/insanity IMHO.
Sweden postponed it for 4 years, I would want my lawyer too given the circumstances.
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> Do you have an accent?

Google's voice recognition works extremely well, at least with certain accents. I'm from India, and it gets me right almost always. Not just that, it recognizes some ridiculously hard to pronounce names of places in India.
Looks good, any github?
Interesting thought but I would take the same deal as Thomas.

I also think your question can be generalized.

Waiting for the train, you hear the announcement "an uptown A train is 4 minutes away from west 4th st." "What if these are the last 4 minutes of my life?"

Waiting at a red light, looking at the countdown clock in the other direction: "What if these are the last three seconds of my life"?
Crooks exploit a zero-day in WordPress eCommerce Plugin to upload a backdoor
the fact that the polymers don't kill the mammalian cells means that whatever mammalian cells do to avoid destruction can be adapted by bacterial cells for their survival.
Seems to be mostly a rebranding of the Pixar opn source page? Consolidation with other Disney software is great. Hope to see more, and especially usecases or how Disney use it... And allow for outside contribs to do the same.
Introversion (creators of Prison Architect, Uplink, Darwinia and Defcon) made this mistake with their cancelled game "Subversion". They started creating elaborate mechanisms and procedurally generated cities only to realize that the entire intricate "bank heist" missions could basically be solved by shooting people and taking their keys.

IOW, they tried so hard to make the game realistic that the intended gameplay was no longer enforceable. Setting up all these intricate puzzles and writing the procedural generators was fun, but actually playing the game was immensely dull unless you went out of your way not to take the path of least resistance.

They ended up using some of the lessons learned in Prison Architect by making the "level design" the actual gameplay. There's actually a very interesting presentation of how Subversion was intended to be played versus how it would have actually been played somewhere on YouTube.

As a counterpoint, RimWorld is a game that's largely based on procedurally generated worlds with heavy inspiration from Dwarf Fortress. But the entire premise of the game is that you build a colony which the game tries to actively challenge to create an interesting story for you.
Philosophical question...

If I hit the search bar on my Android device, and it opens Google Search in an app interface, is it an app, is it a search engine, or is it both? What about with their new strategy of integrating Google Search more closely into apps? How about then?

The line is so blurry as to be irrelevant. The wording on the responses seem to be on a different side of that philosophical argument, but I'm not sure it is that black and white.
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Probably cheaper to marry then off. Students with spouses don't have their parent's income considered.

Of course my wife won't let me try this at home.
I'm somewhat confused.
So I've given it an install but I was presuming that there's a Linux Kernel being virtual machined in the background.

Isn't that why it requires Hyper-V?

There's reference in the instructions that changing the IPs will require the VM to be rebooted from what I can tell as well.
Chatted with a few. Everything was going well until I said "Are you here from HN?". I was greeted with "Your chat partner has left".
Show HN: A lock-free, cross-platform solution to the ABA problem, written in C
Ill jump on the top post for now, and recommend everyone to use Yandex Search. Yes that is right. Not duckduckgo, because that one is anyway using Google in its backend.

Yandex is surprisingly good, take some time to try it out, whenever you think "oh shit results" and want to switch back to Google search, remind yourself how often you automatically rephrase your search when you dont find anything on Google either. Rephrase search, try again, you will find better results than what you had with Google.

There is less spam/ads, and you will discover whole new websites, and network of websites, some even foreign sites but in English.

It feels like using Google from 2004.

www.yandex.com and no Im not payed by them.
One technique I remember being used in DOS apps from many years ago was that the code would be encrypted in such a way that the next instruction to be executed would only be decrypted immediately before it was run. This was achieved by setting up the single step interrupt as the decrypter, and running the code in single step mode.

The fact that the code was encrypted meant the debugger couldn't disassemble it in any meaningful way, and also made it impossible to set a breakpoint (since the breakpoint would just end up being "decrypted" into some other opcode that would inevitably crash). The debugger also couldn't step through the code, because taking over the single step interrupt would prevent the decrypter from running, so you'd just be stepping through garbage.

The way I worked around this was by writing a debugger that could hook the single step interrupt in such a way that it still forwarded the interrupt onto the previous hook. I still couldn't set breakpoints, but I could step through the code, watching it decode itself as it proceeded.
I've heard a lot of discussion in the ad community around how this limits competition of ad networks. Yes, it is awesome you have many on board for launch, but what of the ones who are not? Is there a publicly available process for getting included along with guidelines to set reasonable expectations for whether one will be included? If so, I'd love a link.
Ask HN: Where do 2016 election candidates stand on Net Neutrality?
I don't see this being an election issue in the US. Are the republicans committed to maintaining the status quo?
This seems to me like saying "wow, that frame of film on that movie sure is lucky to be up there right now" 24 times a second.
He fits a caricature of the worst qualities that Americans have come to represent globally.
Many dislike this representation, especially in a potential leader.
Mapping the path for BDR's inclusion in core PostgreSQL
Like the BBC Micro Bit, for example? https://www.microbit.co.uk/
Bing is still using Google as its backend.

www.yandex.com is a really good alternative, I found it even offers better search results for most topic I look at.
Intelligent Use of Technology: The Key to Successful Business
We have in text "the pursuit of happiness" only because "the pursuit of property" sounded... venal.

The only way to win the "brutal commute" game is not to play.
Not discussed in this article, but I find it super annoying when two people get into a shared ride and then proceed to have a whispered conversation the whole ride.

I appreciate the attempt to not be annoying, but that
"secretive" hushed conversation is far more obnoxious.
Yandex is pretty good, they have search and a better mail than gmail, just try it out, you will be surprised. I was.

There was NO ads! You can actually read your email - and NO ads! That is amazing!
Or if you're an "insider"
"The original idea behind AMP was to allow content to be distributed to platforms (such as Google, Twitter and Pinterest) in a way that retains branding and monetization control for the publisher. AMP traffic is the publisher’s traffic. Period."

So far I haven't thought of Google as a platform like Twitter or Pinterest. I thought there was a free web with Google and Bing and good old Altavista searching and indexing it. Is making a website now similar to posting something on Facebook? Or why would they have to assure you that your traffic is your traffic, "period"?

If that's the case we need an urgent change in direction!
I know of a startup in Berlin that was working on the ability to focus sound at any given point in the room with minimal leakage. The application allowed three people in three parts of the room to listen to completely different music without any interference. I thought it was uber cool! Now with this innovation, this just got even cooler. I wonder when these technologies will become affordable for the masses.
On the other hand this proves that malicious software can intentionally harm the user even when the device is no longer in use.
You merely pasted and slightly edited this comment from a previous one (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12733234)

Please stop acting like a bot. Hacker News values insightful, thoughtful discussion, not copypasta.
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This is a polite reminder to everyone that you can hide stories instead of flagging them now, if you simply don't want to see them, or comments about them.
I think that the "judicial reform advocate" angle was not a red herring but instead it was part of the article's intent to suggest that the judge in this case was not merely wrong about whether court filings are considered public information, but was in fact actively attempting to persecute this man.

The fact that you, me, and most everyone else knows that throughout the United States unsealed court records are considered public information makes it strain the credulity that this judge (a professional) would not know that fact. Combine that with a plausible motive (that this man's political activism had just strengthened the judicial oversight body which had censured this judge numerous times) and we have the appearance of judicial impropriety.
Black Holes are sending quantum messages in the universe
On Linux, fork is a wrapper around clone, so it's still not particularly accurate.
Hacked republican website skimmed donor credit cards for 6 months
I don't think DuckDuckGo is using Google.

https://duck.co/help/results/sources

In fact, DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we source from Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex.
Optimizing queries manually is fine by me, what troubled me was more the fact that it was recommended to change a configuration setting on the fly, which sounded like asking for problems regarding concurrent requests.

But actually, I've just made a test, and it appears changing this setting only impacts the current connection, so provided it's toggled back after the request, this should not be a problem.
There cant be.

People/powers-to-be would fuck it up, there would be "copyrighted material" and eventually it would be declared an illegal activity.

Only companies such as Google and Facebook prevail not due to technical reasons, but due to political power. They are selected by the likes of CIA, invested in and nourished to their position, and do their bidding. And alternatives are extinguished.

Google should not have existed had copyright laws been enforced as they are towards another search engine, thepiratebay.org
He's undemocratic, and that's contrary to the most essential American value - democracy
My favourite start was on MCPE - island of about 9 blocks, no trees, no other land in sight. Took 15+ minutes of swimming to find land.
Tl;dr family is valuable because it keeps dangerous idealism in check.
In my experience veracrypt doesn't actually support guid partitions. I had to re-install windows after using veracrypt to encrypt my new machine.

FWIW I'd recommend changing your partition type to mbr and using truecrypt 7.1a instead.

I don't trust veracrypt after such a negative experience.
No disrespect but I don't think you understand what is being said. What you said was orthogonal.

Read the essay, it is not mine, I was partially quoting it. Then if you want to comment or have thoughts we can talk about it.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-...
You CAN customize Vim (I guess you mean Vintageous) on sublime.
"Blame is not for failure, it is for failing to help or ask for help."
It changes everything.
Usually attributed to the CEO of The Lego Group, Jorgen Vig Knudstorp.
> do not inspire confidence in combination with France's history of dealing with encryption

So which country would inspire confidence then? Reading the news these days it seems most developed countries are equally guilty of mass surveillance and trying to meddle with encryption technologies.

The only way to really be sure is to have independent audits like they just did, and the VeraCrypt developers are apparently keen to keep making these audits happen.
It's quite historically inaccurate. It's based on the mythical Saga of Ragnar Lodbrok (who may or may not have been a real person) and peppered with artistic license, like Aethelstan, Ragnar's Anglo-Saxon slave-turned-brother monk, who just happens to have the name of the first English King who popped up a few decades after the seige of Paris, and how the events in the show seem to mirror real life events that occurred across a 200-year timeline. And their lack of any battle armor. But it's a fantastic show.
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> Anyone know of decent similar alternatives?

Mapillary. It's mostly for photo sequences (like streetview) but single photos are supported too.
Oh that is nice, was not the case last time I checked duck.

Still, duckduckgo is an US company, better stay away from those given the history of last decade.
We were doing some benchmarks recently on different databases. Most of the queries were heavy aggregations (>1billion of rows) and, to be honest, we were a bit disappointed with the new parallel query support in pg, we were expecting much better performance.

While doing the benchmarks, we could see that citus was always taking full advantage of all the cores in the cluster, while postgres parallelization was not.

Disclaimer: I'm not a db expert and I don't have any relationship with either citus or postgres.
Yes, preparation makes a big difference in math olympiad but most of those competing at a high level are already very talented to begin with. The problem is when a parent expects their kid to achieve similar performance when they don't have the raw skills. By attributing no role to inherent ability, blame is always put solely on the child for not trying hard enough. Even within a given family, you'll notice that some kids are better much more talented than their brothers or sisters at a given task, and the difference is not really preparation (especially since these differences can often be seen at a very young age).
No, it's well known in British English too. I don't speak American English.
Really? I read this as being more about unproductive anger "cross-talk" -- being angry with a previous situation or disjoint context and taking it out on (largely) innocent bystanders, often the very people who could actually help you now or in the future.
So much THIS.. while anecdotal, i've started paying for rides much more since Uber entered the market where i would probably have used public transportation if Uber wan't available. I'm not saying that Uber isn't hurting the Taxi business but they are surely also growing the market
Only with the user's full cooperation. Video games cause motion sickness in some people too, but we don't worry about malware showing us moving images. You'd just take the headset off, close your eyes or let go of the haptic feedback handset.
The UK already has libel laws that are more vigorous than those found in the US. If those laws aren't comprehensive enough, they can pass new laws prohibiting the dissemination of provably-false statements. Arbitrarily shutting down a contrarian media organization is not the answer.

Your response that it's ok because "it's Russia" reminds me of a story that I heard. A man asks a doctor whether it's ok to pull the legs off a spider for amusement, and the doctor says it's not. The man asks why, since the spider isn't capable of feeling any pain. The doctor replies "I'm not concerned about what will happen to the spider. I'm concerned about what will happen to you."
Takeout is available (https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout). There's similar modern service for geotagged photos called Mapillary where you can migrate photos from Panoramio http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2016/10/10/migrating-from-p...
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I'm aware of a small but thriving home ed community in France - tying home education exclusively to fundamentalist religion is something that's pretty much only a US thing.
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