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> Maybe implement a game that doesn't have the overhead of an os.

I'm in CMU's operating systems class right now and that was one of our projects (our second). The first was writing a stack-tracing debug library, the third was a user-space thread library built on top of a particular kernel spec, and then the fourth was to build a kernel basically from scratch, using our thread library as a test program.

Here's a link to the spec for the game we built on the bare metal: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~410/p1/proj1.html

That fourth project, or "p3" as it's known around here, is known to be a killer. It's tough to write a whole kernel in 6 weeks (+ 1 week of break), especially when it's expected to have a full virtual memory system, kernel tasks/threads for concurrent programming, program loading, interrupt handling, etc, even with a partner.
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> neither being offensive nor being a generalization needs to have a bearing on truth value.

Of course, but neither being offensive nor being a generalization (especially of that magnitude) belongs in a mature discussion, either.

> All else being equal, women get a lot of attention and praise, while men generally have to compete harder for such things.

All else, however, is not equal. Feel free to examine average salaries in the US, or perhaps simple human rights in many other countries.
Or, for a photo shoot, set the time and take a screenshot and then display the screenshot full screen.
That's a quick summary. I've been casually following the developments of this project for a while now ever since it showed up on the radar of OSDev and from there Something Awful which has a talent for curating the uniquely surreal.

It's an achievement on the scale of Henry Darger's collection (http://www.folkartmuseum.org/darger) and perhaps stands alone as an example of "outsider art" in the world of operating system design.
And why can't they both be wrong?

The general argument I've seen has been that Proposition 8 was "just an opinion" or "just freedom of speech", while the people speaking out against Brendan were "a lynch mob", on a "witch hunt", an example of "lefty liberal intolerance", etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.

So the people making the argument typically need to have a position where Brendan supporting Prop 8 was not bad, but Brendan being called out/pressured to step down over it was bad, because for some reason they need him to be a victim of "bullies" in order for their worldview to work.
You're being a but ridiculous, though.

You want to have it both ways. How can it be both a joke/funny and totally unreasonable to be offended by it because it is simply a time. Why would a particular time evoke any sort of humor, right? We are all just tobots that dont ascribe any symbolism or cultural experience to abuthing, right? You're just playing coy here.
I suspect the flipped y axis was for sheer aesthetics - blood dripping down.
You are misreading the author. His sentence is hyperbolic.. He says "effectively" to address your concern --- and then addresses why the whole notion requires further investigation in the next paragraph.

The very next statement is "Sweeping claims like these make Jean Laherrère’s teeth hurt."
Certainly, yes - that would mean that this is not a coincidence.

I'm not arguing this is a coincidence. Just that if it was totally random, it would be very unlikely. So the plausible possibilities are (1) what you suggested, some common cause, or (2) that the discovery happened randomly multiple times but was only disclosed once.
Actually, is it known how large proportion of suicides is caused by clinical depression?

I can imagine suicide cases brought on by real hardship such as a hopeless&painful disease; unescapeable debts in a poor society, or cases such as teenagers married to someone against their will with no chance of escape; these wouldn't be caused by an illness but it's hard to figure out on how to estimate the proportions.
Looks really nice. Am I blind or is there no volume control? Is there a reason you chose to exclude it?
The engineering challenges of recovering a rocket are greater than landing a tin can on the moon and bringing it back.

As for landing on another planet, in order to get to Mars, SpaceX has to first get a reliable means of putting resources into orbit. Being able to recover rockets means there is less time spent building new rockets and more time spent building the thing that ends up going to Mars.

Being able to power-land a launch vehicle in an atmosphere means that it should be possible to power-launch a landing vehicle designed to land on another planet with an atmosphere as opposed to simply landing on the vacuum-exposed surface of the Moon.

So yes, from an engineering perspective this is bigger than the Apollo program, and from a human resources perspective this is bigger than the Moonshot. Doing more with less: this isn't about dollar economics, it's also about material and labour.

When SpaceX starts their Mars mission, they won't be using anything like the Saturn V. That rocket solved the problem of launching a mission to the Moon by throwing brute force at the problem. SpaceX is approaching the problem with more finesse and more advanced engineering.
Sorry, I've read leftlanenews.com for a few years now and never thought of it as blogspam. Not affiliated with them in any way shape or form...

If you could share guidelines of how you determine blogspam would be helpful, as I regarded these guys as a credible car-related news source.

Edit: To clarify, I view this site as a minor competitor to something like Edmunds or KBB (for their new car stuff, not the used pricing book).
Nice work, Tim!

Just a heads up: the D3 visualization doesn't seem to be working in FF28 on Win 7.
There's way too much assembly in there for this to ever be ported in any practical sense:

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Accts/TS/Wb2/LineRep.html

It's written in a C and C++ like language with a heavy helping of assembly thrown in. That sort of thing is usually reserved for embedded platforms where every nanosecond counts, but in this case it's the go-to language. This might be an artifact of how earlier in the project the assembler part was a lot more reliable than the rest of the compiler.
Its worth noting there was no indication that BTCKing and Mr. Shrem used PGP to encrypt their communication.
With enough money, I can make oil from sunlight.

Sure, the sun is finite too. But the idea here is to speak in terms of human experience, not literal truths
Or "Why I wish I was better at math."
It doesn't matter how quickly we put carbon in the atmosphere. It has a 200 year effect - taking 60 more years versus 20 is meaningless if you end up putting it all up there anyway. The only difference would be how soon we suffer the worst effects - it's too fast for adaptation in nature for most evolutionary or migratory processes either way. I suppose you could hope for a technological silver bullet but that's effort made while dealing with a much more costly carbon economy.

Also, we should really avoid the worst effects. Even the middling effects are pretty awful.
Can someone explain to me why NN's are always in layers?
Have you used it? The Viscosity UI is, in my opinion, bounds better - easier to use, more obvious configuration options, etc.
Please stop complaining about having to pay $50 for an upgrade. That wouldn't even get you 2 months adobe subscription. Nobody is forcing you to upgrade.
We should mention this on the site, but the visualizer currently only works in Chrome due to some idiosyncrasies with the way other browsers handle (or don't handle) getting waveform data from audio tags. We're working on it though!
Nice. Like it.
President's Security Flaw Guidance Seen Hard to Implement
We definitely gave this some thought. We put it aside to keep the player minimal assuming that people listening would resort to using the volume control built into their computers.

We have the functionality for it there in the source but we just need to implement a UI for it.
Elizabeth is brilliant, both from a biotech and from a startup perspective. Kat is one of the best connectors I've met. YC is growing muscles in very needed areas. Can't wait to see what they have in store for the next few cycles.
Ouch. That sounds pretty horrible :(.
The one thing that's not very clear, is whether they are focusing on specific high-end cars for this hand-crafter stuff or not.

If FLA and such, then this isn't all that novel. Even relatively modestly priced S2000 had a lot of manual labor in the assembly process. (Don't think it had a hand-built crank, but for a 30k that's a bit lavish...)
Dogs as dumbbells
Ask HN: Simple freelance web development contract templates?
Good ol' fracking! Who needs to do expensive things like drill holes and pump in fillers to displace the stuff we're trying to harvest? Let's just smash the lithosphere like a dinner plate on the slate floor and collect all the goodies that pour out!

It's not like we actually need that land to grow food on or anything.
> Facebook say after the disclosure: "We added protections for Facebook’s implementation of OpenSSL before this issue was publicly disclosed, and we're continuing to monitor the situation closely."

I wonder if Facebook found and fixed the bug locally beforehand? Makes me think of all the OSS libraries we use, without bothering to do much more in the way of static-analysis, etc besides simply making sure they compile.
What's the difference between "generic" and "exhaustive," and where can I read more about all this stuff?
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Ooho
I'm interested in it because I plan to use docker to ease application management, and with CoreOS I barely have to maintain the operating system because it's so lightweight. So it greatly simplifies things :)

If you think docker is a good fit for your application, this is kind of the next step.
Ask HN: What do you use to save and read articles and content?
I've recently found myself repeatedly in the position of wishing to save articles, documents, and free books I find online for later reading, but a lack of a central repository makes the prospect of returning to them difficult.

I've considered several options:

- Some tool that extracts content and puts a document into a single format eg. PDF, Markdown, ePub
- "Save for later" tools in web browsers / OSs
- Evernote or similar
- A folder that is synced with dropbox, Drive, etc...

Essentially my goal is to save content, mainly text but also images and possibly video content, to a central place in the cloud that I can access it later in a clean, unobtrusive manner (without ads, source formatting, etc.) for later reading or reference.

I'd be interested to hear what approaches other people use.
In summary:

> "To create a custom template on Wordpress you need to know PHP and you need to read through pages of complicated Wordpress documentation. For front-end designers who know HTML/CSS/Javascript, it’s completely overwhelming. They just want to design, not worry about all this technical mumbo jumbo."

You're either confusing design with FE development, or you're making excuses for laziness. In any tech profession, if you want to remain competitive then you need to keep up with the advancements. If you don't want to "worry about all this technical mumbo jumbo," then stick to design and let someone else handle the coding.
Another angle to that is that telcos and banks are localized services (none have high % market share across the globe) that people use less frequently than email. Whilst they carry potentially higher rewards for blackhats, in an aggregate effect on society, a single bank not being secure is probably less noteworthy than a globally used service like Gmail or Facebook not being secure.

Also, banks only deal with money, whereas in certain locations and situations, lives potentially depend on Gmail, Facebook and Twitter being secure. (oppressive governments and such)
The short answer is yes, we use a fair amount of C++, and yes, we've eliminated writing the JNI code for developers on the team. We're planning on writing more about both of these topics in a future blog post and we're interested in sharing our tools with the community, though it will take some work to make them less specific to our code base.
real-estate search engine mashup that has maximum internet speed available to residence as a filter.

Would be great in Australia. I'd love to be able to filter rentable properties which have NBN/FTTP connections for instance... Would work well in UK too.

But for FTTN connections, having a distance from exchange would probably work well enough.
I use Instapaper to save blog posts and articles to read later.
There are tons of solutions for this. Instapaper, Evernote, email, browser bookmarks, ...

Personally, last year I finally accepted the fact that I probably won't ever read 99% of what I'm saving for later. If I see something I think I'll want to reference in the future, I email it to myself and tag it appropriately. But before I do even that, I ask myself: Is this something I can find on Google within a few minutes? If the answer is yes, then there's no point in saving it.
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Most all sites I use (several hundred) have password limitations that would prevent these passphrases from working as they require uppercase, lowercase, special characters and or numbers or length.

Though ultimately, of all the sites people use, they wouldn't be able to remember a special passphrase for each and if they are using the same one for each site that's even worse.

So ultimately it sounds like people should continue to use 1Pass to generate all the special password characteristics but then use this site's ideas as a basis for your single 1Password Master Password. Also maybe for your email account since if you ever lost access to your master password or vault the only way to reset all your passwords may be via email.
Vulnerability Summary

Total High severity issues Zero (0)
Total Medium severity issues Four (4)
Total Low severity issues Four (4)
Total vulnerabilities identified Eleven (11) (incl. three (3) Informational)
Anosmia is much more serious when it's the result of trauma or some other disease - it makes food taste radically different, and is likely to cause depression. That said, I've never had a sense of smell, so I don't know what I'm missing. And the world is much less smell-focused than vision or hearing, so if you have to lose a sense, smell is near the top of the list.
Personally, I prefer Acorn to Pixelmator. It's on sale for a limited time: http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/
Perhaps not as unlikely as you might think:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery

I remember years ago reading about how some researchers were investigating a specific variation of this phenomenon, in which a number of independent and geographically dispersed labs would be, for example, trying to grow a particular crystal. For a number of years none were successful. Then within a matter of weeks of each other, all of the labs would independently discover the same technique that made it possible. This happened so close together that pure coincidence was incredibly unlikely.

Apparently this same phenomenon was occurring far more often than it should in theory (based on the probability of pure coincidences), which is what prompted the research into it.

Unfortunately, I don't know what the final outcome was. It would be amazing if anyone else remembers this and can point out the original source.

Personally I am inclined to believe that it is simply a matter of prior events causing multiple individuals to be thinking about the same things. If you have lots of people searching in the same locality, there's a much higher chance that they will all find the same things around the same time than if they are all operating in a truly random search space.
I suggest at least get the degree even if it's a class a semester, the piece of paper opens doors, plain and simple, it should never close doors.
Solar irradience on the surface of Earth is about 1200 W/m^2
Total energy consumption in 2008 was 143,851 TWh

Take panels that have 20% efficiency, and assume they can absorb for 6 hours a day, for 70% of the year (255 days). You can generate 368 kW/year. To generate the total 143851 TWh, you'd need about 3.91e11 m^2 of area. That sounds a lot, but it's only a square of land 625 km per side, or about 90% of the area of California. Note that this is of course a very hand-wavey order of magnitude estimate.

The problem isn't the abundence of energy sources, it's the collection, retainment, transmission and generation reliability of it (those factors overlap - generation reliability can be offset by better transmission and vice versa).

We don't really have to go looking far for energy sources, we just really struggle to harness them with current technology.
If part of your job is to create ideas within some domain, and you can't control exactly when said ideas will crystallize, should it matter whether you 'got' an idea whilst 'at work' rather than in the shower, or on the way to work?

The line is difficult to draw precisely with legal language, so companies err on the side which protects them best (hoping employees will sign anyway, given they've already gone through the interview process and are likely to have similar terms at other employers).
With any luck, this is the last article about "Scroogled" which I'll ever write.
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Or embedded systems. YMMV.
I suggest rephrasing the homepage language.

"Support Great Content" --> Meaningless. I have no idea what this is supposed to mean.

"Paste your content URL..." --> What? Why?

"Wusk is an exclusive, personalized way for content creators and fans to support and connect with each other." --> What? Support in what way? Connect in what way? What's the point of this? Why would I use this?

"Do you create videos, music, written content or art? Wusk will help you receive monetary support from your fans and connect with them personally." --> OK, finally something that makes sense, though I doubt most people would stick around long enough to get to this part. I guess it lets people give tips to YouTube channels?

"Through Wusk, you can support and show your thanks to your favorite content creators for the content you enjoy, and get exclusive fan experiences." --> Saying the same thing as before. The previous one alluded to paid support, whereas here it's ambiguous how you're going to "support" and "give thanks."
FYI your chosen font probably looks beautiful on mobile, but does not render properly on desktop Chrome or Firefox for me.
Why entrepreneurs shouldn’t shoot down ‘bad’ ideas
I've yet to meet a designer that can do the above. Its very much a black magic regardless of who you are.
It looks like you have played the part of devil's advocate and come to a conclusion. Seeing as how you have scored a part time job in the bay area, I think you will get the best of both worlds by going back to school. Good luck.
I've scoffed at my share of really stupid ideas: Twitter, Snapchat, Pinterest (I still kinda do), ...
"You’ve reached your limit of 10 complimentary articles this month."
Thanks for mentioning Discover Meteor! My own experience with Meteor is pretty similar to yours, it was definitely one of the easiest frameworks to get started with.
Does that actually proxy the connections opened by flash these days?
I've always been particularly confused by the contract clauses which specify that all work of the employee during their time at the company is property of the company itself. Does this mean that if I develop some completely unrelated software in my spare time while working as a programmer at a large company, that the software I created at home also belongs to my employer? What if I was to write a book during that same time? Is anyone aware of legal battles fought over this type of contract clause? It seems fairly prevalent in the industry today.
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I started using TunnelBlick before I had heard of Viscosity. The UI isn't great but it was easy enough to install and configure.

I will check out Viscosity, as I don't particularly like having to use the config files directly each time I want to make a small change. Do you know whether the performance (throughput, latency) differs between the two?
The bigger problem is not the ideas that relate to your every day job... But Say your a Aerospace Engineer working on rockets and on your off time you write a scifi book, after your done you take it to a publisher, they publish it, and then your employer claims ownership over that book... and sues you

That type of shit happens all the time, and while that is an extreme example, there are all kinds of examples like a programmer getting paid to work on a billing system writes a childrens game for which the company claims ownership over... etc etc etc.

The idea that just because your employed means you should give up any and all rights to your brain is ridiculous...

There has to be a happy median there somewhere
pretty sure this won't go away any time soon, so in the meantime, just jot down your idea in your own device at break time.

My take on it, anything done / written during 'office-hour' will be deemed company property.
To be a successful founder or CEO you have to grow a startup support system (a Mafia) around your startup. An active network of other entrepreneurs, investors, experts, can lead to opportunities for the company and mutually-supported survival when you really need it. You have to give before you get. Giving back to the startup community rises the tide for all boats in the long run. The wider the network, the better the CEO/Founder, the better off the company and its team.
OK. Let's do the stats.

Men are 95% of homeless, 90% of prisoners, 95% workplace deaths, 80% suicides...

In second case:

I went unnecessary offensive, call it "most women cry for help" whatever.

The fact is that people who are at risk of suicidal behavior are equally distributed between genders [1]. Also mental illnesses such as schizophrenia are equally distributed [wikipedia].

So I see two options why women have much higher suicidal attempt rate:

- it is a cry for help

- men suicide attempts are under reported

[1] www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9501750
I dislike it (and most forward-thinking companies wouldn't risk scaring off people who are the type that work on their own time), however I can see the reasons.

How do they know you did it at home, not during work hours? How do they know it didn't affect your work? If you're salaried, there aren't set start/stop times. How do they know they weren't paying you at the time you came up with the idea, or thought through a problem? Did you do it on a work laptop? Did you use a copy of Photoshop that work paid for? Is it something you did for your job, and now you want to sell it to other people -- even if the code has been rewritten?

Again, I don't think it's very enforceable or even a good idea. However, I can understand why a lawyer would slip it in.
Apple Poaches More Amazon Execs. Is This New Startup to Blame?
Of course, IANAL. I also don't like those kinds of employment clauses.

The way I understand it those clauses are written to prevent the kind of situation where you have a problem at work, can't solve it, go home, solve it, then offer to license it to your employer the following day for a reasonable charge.
Is it possible to have it such that changing theme doesn't stop the audio? Also buffering issues result in the last tone being held until playback can continue, might be more pleasant if it were just silence.

Aside from that, looks fantastic!
This is a tantalizing comment, but I'm having trouble seeing how it's relevant to the OP. Care to elaborate?
Facebook's IPO didn't happen until two years later and isn't mentioned anywhere in TIME's POTY article. So I doubt that has anything to do with anything.

Meanwhile it was the year of "Collateral Murder" and the diplomatic cable leaks; it was arguably the year Wikileaks went from unknown to notorious.

Assange was at least in part resisting a possible extradition to the U.S.