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"malloc never says no"

malloc says no if you set a ulimit in your shell. I do this on the desktop to stop myself from shooting myself in the foot. (Recent kernels also let you turn off the overcommitting behavior.)
I guess it depends on the implementation details of the proposed system, the author is a libertarian (he talks at length of this in his other publications) so he may well have some very radical ideas on exactly how this could be accomplished, seasteading is the first that springs to mind, but I'm sure there are others.

It may also be simply an instance of order vendors so to speak, the government as the party with monopoly of force maintains a wholesale on order so to speak, but there are many many resellers within a market that expand on that based on various values and require their adherents to hold to various responsibilities in return for various rights, to greater or lesser extents.

If you could argue that this is a system which would extract more value from the governed population than the current one, then it does seem to be something of a self fulfilling prophecy that this ought eventually be implemented in some fashion. Of course, that's in question at any rate.
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Let us know when you have it done... we'll use it. I think you should include a referral tracking code and then a simple api call to get those referral records..

i.e. your js library uses an api key. That api key has a private key that you can use to query your back in db so that you can pull the records of which phone number and other referrer trackbacks and generate a unique url for that txt.
This works over Flash, which means you're confined to RTMP... while it's possible to tunnel a more standard protocol on top of that and open up the other end to third-party clients, (or simply gateway to $protocol), I doubt they've thought that far out yet.

There are pragmatic reasons for the fragmentation we're seeing, although those don't necessarily correspond to the customer's favored outcome. Federation reduces the stickiness coefficient of your product, and forces you to design your application around a protocol that may not fit your needs ideally, cf. Skype's supernode architecture.
Seamicro is already building servers out of atom chips

http://www.seamicro.com/
http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/product.html also sounds interesting
If only high-school Chemistry was this easy, I would go back and do it again, just to be fascinated by nature.
I wrote this site because

a) The job board sites in SA suck

b) The IT industry is completely overrun by recruiters, even though almost everyone hates them.

I was inspired by sites like the 37signals job board, stackoverflow careers and coderstack.
I worked on it off and on for about three months and did all the design and development myself.

It's written in Rails 3 and hosted on Heroku.
Yeah, however you know more then that per user.

ie. how long the user is on the page, how many pages they view, where they came from (did they come from google/news.yc/etc?)

If you're still stuck, send me an email! (You have no email on your profile page, btw)
Sorry to point this out, but doesn't your section "@font-face Use and Abuse" rule out embedding typefaces like Gotham?
Make it tiny, and you can pot the whole thing in epoxy and make it essentially indestructible. That might be important in a school environment.
Well, does it need to be property, or transferable? Is it not enough that it grants you a monopoly over doing stuff that will last you a very significant part of your working life? Why make is assignable in toto, rather than just licensable (so long as the right to sue is and remains exclusively the patent owner's)
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I thin having Atom cores for servers is reasonable. Atom cores have enough power for many company level computing...
Pity he isn't investing in Emc2, the maker of the Polywell. http://www.emc2fusion.org/
I have 20 / 2 cable at home up from 10 / 1. Using DOCSIS 3.0. I finally don't care about getting anything faster, in the near future.
If the thing has decent IO breakouts (or can interface with something like the Android IO board), he'll start eating into the Arduino market.
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Oh boy, this reminds me so much of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). Almost every geek cries out "I want this thing now and play around with it." But the inventor is like "No, no, its all for the kids. You can't have it."

The OLPC Hardware could have been a huge commercial success if it had been gone into production soon after the orignal presentation. But no, it needed Acer and their EEE-PC to satisfy that demand.

Why develop a "universal purpose something" specifically for children? You're not a child anymore so its way easier to build something YOU want than imagine what exactly a child wants or needs. In fact, I'm sure this guy wants the USB-PC more than anyone else on the planet. Also, if you mass produce you bring down prices anyway.

But most important, everyone knows what children want in general: They want to be just like their adult idols!
Don't tell kids: "This is for you. I wish I had it when I was a kid. Now, have fun, while daddy works on his Mac."
Ask HN: How 'little' sleep should I get?
I've decided to sleep late today because I had to finish up some work. But I need to wake up early at unearthly hours (6AM :) ) and I'm debating how little sleep I could get and still feel fresh tomorrow morning.

I'm not sure if this is a phenomenon with just me, but I've noticed that if I sleep -

8-9 hours: everything seems perfect, I think clear, and I'm fresh throughout the day.

7 hours: strangely, I feel drowsy the whole day.

5-6 hours: waking up is a pain, but during the day I seem to be active as I would have been, had I slept for 8 hours (or is it an illusion? :) )

No sleep at all: strangely I don't feel sleepy for atleast another 6 hours during the next day. But if I close my eyes for even a minute, I'll be out cold!

1-4 hours: I haven't arrived at a general theory yet for this!

So I'm debating whether I should sleep for 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 hours so that I can be fresh from 6.30AM - 10AM tomorrow. Any one with experiences to share?
that looks nothing like this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dea...
When I first read about protocol buffers, I was surprised at the similarity to ASN.1/BER: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Encoding_Rules

Basically, they're both nested type/length/value data formats with primitives for numerics, strings, etc with an human readable description language and toolsets to auto-generate language types + (de)serialisers etc.

Given that the ASN.1 toolset exists (even if a little dusty, SNMP and X.509 keep it alive) I don't see why google bothered to re-implement.

The FAQ: http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/faq.html mentions ASN.1 but it's main argument (being tied to a particular form of RPC) doesn't apply to ASN.1.
Yep, I swapped it out at the last second. The previous typeface allowed embedding without OTF and TTF. Someone raised the issue over Twitter and it is now being tracked on GitHub.
which means ARM do too, especially Tegra 2 (dual core, 1GHz)

it's possible to recompile server apps for a new architecture - and theoretically effortless, if running on a VM (e.g. Java, C#) that has been ported.

ARM chips use much less power per processing throughput, and since power consumption and heating are serious issue in huge server farms, this seems a clear opportunity.
eg. just googled to find: Calxeda is building a 480 core ARM server, and claiming x10 cost savings and x10 performance gains. But sounds like vapourware (and is; doesn't exist yet). http://www.calxeda.com/
You probably don't know many rich people.

Disregarding the infamous rich brats you see on TV, rich people are in general very frugal and do care about dimes and nickels. That's how many of them got rich in the first place.

And regardless, billionaires are in a minority.

college students that eat lots of ramen are already
valuing money more than their own health

On the contrary, I think college students are the ones that don't care about money.
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True - you just managed to scare me: I live in Munich. Always better to live the lean lifestyle so you can always leave with your backpack ;-)

Still, I'm more worried about other forms of repression in the future. Patriot Act or Telecommunications data retention (EU) have a huge potential for abuse and causing suffer. The problem here is, that you can't solve it by immigrating into a different country. It's more or less the same craziness, where ever you go on this planet.
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Last year ICE seized 9 other domains too (also mostly video streaming). Details here: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/01/business/la-fi-ct-pi...
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I wonder which browser am I supposed to use? It doesn't seem to work in FF4, Chrome or IE9.
To feel fresh in the morning, I don't think it's the amount of hours you sleep, but the part of your sleep cycle when you get up. If you get up in the middle of a "deep sleep" cycle, you'll feel tired, but if you get up in a "light sleep", you'll feel ok. That is an over-simplification, of course, but it is related to REM (Rapid Eye Movement) and other phases of sleep. It would help you too, to take a short nap during thee next day.
What about just telling your airline that you won't be on the second flight? Then they don't have to wait for you.
Cool information about the difficulties of writing high-concurrency software that runs on both Windows and Unix. I like the approach of removing #ifdef hell from the Node portion of the code by putting it in liboio. I hope the goal of using less than 100 mb RSS is met, it'd be nice to run Node on smaller machines.
I believe it should work nonetheless.

To help you I've rewritten it and you should be able to use it on Mac.

https://github.com/yogsototh/get-shit-done

Happy working! Do not hesitate to ask me if something goes wrong.
I'm not saying you won't get an answer here, but why don't you try http://stackoverflow.com?
older, more active discussion is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2518609
Ask HN: imagine a world where Google was truly evil ...
... and had the most resources, same drive, same execution, lack of morals, and audacity to plagiarize what every up-and-coming startup and other successful company is doing in its own market.

For example, imagine that Google were to exactly replicate Quora, StackOverflow, Wikipedia, EBay, Amazon, etc. in UI, UX, distribution channels and deals and then gradually stopped showing those competitors as search results, provided incentives to corporations to partner with it instead of its competitors, bribed/lobbied every government agency, and that it would rather copy/destroy its competitors than acquire them.

Now, imagine that you were an ambitious entrepreneur in that environment / geographical area. How would you compete?

Just so you know -- this is actually happening. Not in the US and not with Google, but far east, and with actual big tech companies there.

What would be your practical advice to those entrepreneurs in that particular country?
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In this context, "programming language" and compiler are really the same thing: a mapping from source code to object code.

In any case, the problem with your original argument is not the choice of compiler, it's that your algorithm migh not halt, as explained by kenjackson.
The problem that's been pointed out before is that Intel imposes the artificial restriction that you can't use ECC RAM with Atom chips. At the scale of the SeaMicro devices, one would think that memory errors should be somewhat common. That doesn't leave one to put too much faith in the device. Though SeaMicro may have some clever way around that...
So would I go into the deep-sleep cycle in 2-3 hours? Then I can sleep lesser than that.
Sounds like you're on Windows, but FWIW it works in Safari on OS X.
Since CSS 3D transforms require the GPU you will need either Chrome or Safari running on a computer which supports GPU acceleration. Chrome on Windows XP, for example, does not allow use of the GPU by default so you wouldn't see WebGL or CSS 3D transforms
I wasn't talking about whether I thought it was good or bad, just that it seems to me like most people on HN usually look down on it.

And the reasons are mostly ones of user-friendliness (not technical reasons). I've heard of plenty of people who still never signed up for StackOverflow because it requires OpenID.
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in my humble opinion: supporting windows for the server side is like supporting IE 6 for the client side -> ressources best spend elsewhere
It loses all "CSS 3D" when you do all calculations in JS, IMO.

// add on our post drag velocity
baseVec.x -= shapeVelY;
baseVec.y += shapeVelX;

// dampen it
shapeVelX *= DAMPEN;
shapeVelY *= DAMPEN;

// now rotate our shape
$shape.css({
WebkitTransform: "translateY(-55px) scale(0.7) rotateX("+(baseVec.x)+"deg) rotateY("+(baseVec.y)+"deg)"
});

// work out the shadow darkness
var shadowDarkness = .05 + Math.abs(Math.cos(baseVec.x * RADS) * .3);

for(var s = 0; s < $shadowCont.length; s++) {
var thisShadow = $($shadowCont[s]),
shadScale = thisShadow.data('scale') || 1;
thisShadow.css({
WebkitTransform: "translateZ(-150px) translateY(75px) rotateX(90deg) scale("+((.9-(shadowDarkness *.7)) * shadScale)+")",
background: "-webkit-gradient(radial, 50% 50%, 0, 50% 50%, 200, from(rgba(30,4,22,"+shadowDarkness+")), to(rgba(60,9,44,0)))"
});
}

...

source here: http://lab.aerotwist.com/css/spikes/js/CSS3Spikes.js (I cleaned this bit up a tiny bit for HN-friendly display)

Impressive, but a bit (perhaps unintentionally) misleading.
and Safari on iOS.
Photosynth: Pretty neat iOS app from MS for capturing panoramas
And you get a little feel of how WP7's Metro theme looks like on your iOS devices
I'm in Firefox 4 on Windows, which does support WebGL, and all I see is blankness.
And you get a little feel of how WP7's Metro theme looks like on your iOS devices, sort of.
Except that in each class there are going to be, at best, one or two people who can reach that level of programming competence. The vast majority of students struggle to make the LOGO turtle do a Z-shaped movement, it's totally unrealistic to expect them to get to the level of writing Tetris within 1 or even 2 years of 1 hour a week programming education.
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It would be tough to beat trains and buses, though.

In the case of trains, it depends very much on where you are and where you're going. For example flying between basically any two European capital cities is almost always cheaper than taking the train.
There's an alternative way of looking at it:

* The US government did nothing because they've already considered and inspected for these contingencies, knowing that the reactors are in earthquake zones.

* The German government is displaying their incompetence because it took a huge disaster somewhere else for them to decide to look at these issues, rather than being more proactive about it.

You're assuming that because the US did nothing that it's reactors are vulnerable and the government must be turning a blind eye to it. You've provided no evidence to back this claim.
It's a security rule if you have checked bags.

No it's not. People fly on flights other than their bags all the time. If you check in and miss your flight, your bags often get there before you do and might even take a different routing. I missed a Southwest flight from MDW to PDX once. I ended up flying MDW-OAK-PDX, and my bags were in Portland long before I was.

There may be a rule for international flights, but I can't find a source on this. (The "you must use the lav in the cabin in which you are ticketed" rule only applies on international flights, for example. It may even only apply on international flights to the US, not from the US. After all, the 9/11 planes were international flights to the US. Oh wait...)
I thought this stood out as interesting from the article:

'That's because every USB storage device has its own serial number, which can be retrieved from any computer to which it's been connected. "You're able to track that USB device in every system it's touched," said Lee.'
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Patents were originally meant to entice people into publishing secret methods for the betterment of public knowledge. The limited monopoly was the carrot on the stick to do that, not really meant to be the the ultimate reward of the system.

Of course the current patent system is a total joke with companies patenting blatantly obvious ideas left and right and playing the game of "who filed the obvious idea first and/or who has the most lawyers".

If there were a patent on the idea of harnessing power from Thomas Jefferson spinning in his grave, that'd be a real valuable one... because he must be spinning REALLY, REALLY fast by now.
Right title for this 2 years old article is "Why V8 is not suitable for nginx".

He has his own set of requirements which by no means applies to _all_ webservers.
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That might as well be the best Google Translate translation I ever read.
I've handled it that after 10 openings of an app the dialog is shown. The assumption I use is that after 10th time user kinda finds it useful. Anyway, 92 4 and 5 star reviews, of total 98 seems to confirm my assumption.
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ARM's next chip design will support virtualization software
I'll try and get the team to agree to try it out after the weekend. I love the idea of gamification, if it's done right.

What is really interesting is how to take gamification further. Achievements are cute as a first step, but I'm sure there is a lot of progress to be made in making a workplace's tedious tasks (like shuffling bugs in Jira) interesting.
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in russian : Почему Google V8 пока не подходит для встраивания в серверы
in english : Why is Google V8 is not suitable for integration into servers.

There is a word "integration" that the author of the post forgot to put in.
From a rational perspective: If maximum sustainable productivity is the goal, first take a big enough sample on what you are able to accomplish under various conditions.

But I wouldn't mess around too much as there are numerous physiological, psychological consequences and practical hazards.
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I've read many articles about ARM movement onto Non-mobile platforms (especially for server virtualization). Indeed, power consumption is one of the biggest problem of today's datacenters. Hence, if we can stack to scale-out cheap and low power servers like legos, that'd be great...
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Ok. Fine, Go is a great language. But nodejs' popularity is also due to the fact that I don't have to learn yet another language. I already know javascript fairly well and adopting nodejs was a matter of hours, days, not weeks or months.

So sure, heavy cpu multi-threaded apps might run better on Go. But I'm not running in that court anyway.
really good translation. i'm not aware google translate has this progress.
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I've been on flights between London and Mombasa in Kenya where the aircraft stopped to refuel in Luxor in Egypt and we didn't get off.
I had read some research paper showing the optimal number of sleep hour is between 6h 30 and 7h 30.

One thing to note is sleep deprivation is really problematic. Don't do this.

But you could sleep far less if you sleep in 3 our 4 times instead of only one time. But one thing to experience is the nap.

Try sleep only 4 to 5 hours. Then take nap at 12:00 for about 30min to 1h. And for me it worked well for some months.
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It can be worse than "you could be killed in an accident tomorrow".

In Aug 2009 I survived an ascending aortic dissection. Chance of survival 1-2 in 10.

I still remember my time in the ER, looking at my wife of (then nearly) 20 years, having left my son (then 12) on a Scout campout hours previously, wondering if I'd done it right. What do you say at a time like that? "Goodbye?" "I'm sorry?"

Waking up afterwords (11 hours of open heart surgery early Sat morning, woke-up late Sunday afternoon) was really sweet, even though it hurt like hell.
EEE PC was from Asus, not Acer.
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The rendering is still done in CSS, which was the point, as opposed to using Canvas or WebGL. I wasn't trying to do everything in CSS, since that wouldn't actually be possible

I take your point, but however you choose to apply the CSS it's still CSS :)
It's using CSS 3D transforms not WebGL :)
Technical texts like this are relatively easy to get right. English is not my native language and when I was young I could read computer related stuff, but had trouble understanding, for example Harry Potter. If Google has an example of such a text, they can learn all the translations for all the technical terms from that data. However, a news article is much more difficult because they often have lot's of metaphors, etc. If you try to translate those, you get a lot of halve finished sentences and stuff like that.
When you buy the ticket you also expect a seat on the plane, but the airline has absolutely no problem with massively overselling a flight and bumping some people because, hey -- nothing personal, just economics!

Why should customers show the airlines any more courtesy than they are shown by the airlines in such matters?
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Indeed, in fact Obama actually said that more security is needed.
No. forEach() being native doesn't prevent it from generally being slower than a foor loop, because it still has to do a function call on every iteration.
From my experience of building web applications only two pieces of information are EVER required at registration time:

1). Email address - unlikely to be forgotten and is useful, ie you can then contact the user

2). Password - so the user can access the site. And I agree, dont ask twice for this, as long as you have a password reset feature.

Any further information can be obtained once the user is inside the system - and full explainations can be given as to why particular information is required.

And never use captcha! There are a millions tricks that you can employ to avoid bots.