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Interesting. The Moonies ships an army of Korean boys and girls to the US to solicit money from college students, old people and generally anyone that will look at their flipover clipboards with pictures of impoverished people. [0] It also owns a great deal of wealth and businesses [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonies

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unification_Church_aff...
I think the horrible cases of institutionalized abuse that make it to the media blind most people to the fact that the majority of cult followers, perhaps even leaders, are well-meaning people who care for their loved ones and want to do the right thing.
Is this really what would happen? I guess if they could mass produce them all at once it might. But it seems like every new condo or apartment building that is built in SF is more expensive than everything else already available.
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> I've lived in at least seven different cities in three continents, and harbor no particular emotional attachment to any of them.

That does help explain why you see locations as essentially fungible. :)

> Apparently I'm incapable of developing an emotional attachment to geographical coordinates.

There's coordinates, and there's community. Places become keys for personal/shared experiences and history, people build up neighbors and networks that provide society, help mitigate risk, and introduce opportunity (and the fewer resources you have, the more important that is).

> We don't need to be in any particular city in order to write code.

Certainly not to write code. To raise money, on the other hand, it seems to be pretty advantageous. Whether that's about dev convenience or VC convenience, though, is probably a key question worth exploring.

The larger point about making other choices than the Bay Area is one I'm very on board with. There are times I wish I lived there and opportunities that have tempted me, but it's also clear to me that SF and the Bay at large have some structural problems and don't have good policy for protecting/fostering the stuff that's important about communities. For the most part, I've chosen to move in other orbits and it's been rewarding.
Sorry, I strongly disagree. Art doesn't have to be social, and it does not have to have an audience. The artist can produce a work of art for it's own sake. There is no social consequence or responsability. The artist doesn't even have control over his piece - so many critics have found different meanings where the author didn't mean to express anything in particular. So many prayers have been chanted alone, to build links between one's self and the spiritual world, with no one else listening.
Clear skies for a week... had to be tonight that the storm clouds roll through.
That seriously sucks to hear. I wont say im sorry because i can relate and youve probably heard that enough. Wjat i will say is this. It takes time and everyone is different. I'm only just now getting back into it. Honestly it will take time and your never really be over it what will change is your ability to move through it and have it affect you less. Just keep at it try to do a small thing every day even if you dont want to. It will get easier. If it doesn't you need to see someone I'm not saying jump on the anti depressants I'm saying talking will help and if you've lost your best friend you might not have anyone so get help talk to your doc whatever.
Fair enough, it just sounded like the GP was describing something inherent rather than something new, and it didn't mesh with my understanding of how etcd worked to date.
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I don't like the tone of the article much, there is an element of spite in it that would be better removed and replaced with on the record quotes. That said, there is clearly a lot of smoke here and possibly a fire.

There is a reason some people refer to certain suppliers of money as 'dumb capital'. Playing the game well and moving on before the inevitable collision with reality happens is a strategy that can work for a long time. This guy seems to be so good at it that it likely will never catch up with him.

I've met people like this, I've even worked for one or two.

It's scary how they can use a combination of charisma, drive and self delusion to relieve others (including their co-workers) of their contributions, line their pockets with cash and move on before the crash.

Which of course is never their fault because they've already moved on. And if the company is successful in spite of them then they get to claim the credit.

I'd like to see the substantiation of the claim that Wozniak used 'some of Ohio Scientifics technology'. That sounds like patent nonsense to me. They both used a 6502 but that was an inmos general purpose cpu, nothing specifically made for Ohio Scientific.

The Apple I was launched in '76 (also using the 6502), the II followed in '77. The early ('75-'76) Ohio Scientific products were more along the lines of the KIM-I than the Apple I.
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Thanks for the feedback. We'll try to fix those points.

Checkout the explore page for a few examples of groups using the tool:

https://www.loomio.org/explore
I think it's bizarre that people went a-lynching over Eich, a man who a decade ago voted against gay rights... But nobody cares that a woman who actively destroyed rights for all over the last decade now has steer over an organisation who hold your data.
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I think nl (sibling post) is more accurate: "governments" don't exist as such. You have lots of agencies with conflicting interests, and they're eventually all made of people.
This is bad engineering. Should browsers run a full suite of tests? How would you detect a version which has an old number but had just the patch applied? Why not test for other vulnerabilities whilst we are at it?

A browsers job is to browse the Internet using agreed protocols. If you want to create an addon that checks websites for vulnerability of the month because you are more security conscious then fine. Just lets not push the problem to someone else.
They don't need to when you hear about Apple suing for rounded corners and other frivolous nonsense on the news.
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Guantánamo hearings halted amid accusations of FBI spying on legal team
Since you posted the same thing further upthread, I'll correct you here as well:

Actually, go read the law (ArbnErfG, § 18 Mitteilungspflicht, Satz (3)) says otherwise:

(3) Eine Verpflichtung zur Mitteilung freier Erfindungen besteht nicht, wenn die Erfindung offensichtlich im Arbeitsbereich des Betriebes des Arbeitgebers nicht verwendbar ist.

You only have to ask your employer if the invention was made in the course of your work (during work time) or part of the employers business. Totally unrelated inventions made in your free time are _not_ covered by the law.
I personally think a tax on (unearned) wealth makes a lot more sense than a tax on work / earnings.
For it to work they have to:

- Make Go code compile as .so, currently Dalvik/ART are always the app entry points.

- As you say provide a wrapper for all existing APIs, with the problem that many rely on implementation inheritance, not supported by Go. So a 1:1 mapping is not possible.
> Another thing that is missing is clearing the .BSS section before passing control to the C code. It's not used at the moment, though.

The Multiboot standard says that the boot loader will clear the .bss section for you - in section 3.1.3: "bss_end_addr Contains the physical address of the end of the bss segment. The boot loader initializes this area to zero"

I don't know what GRUB does if you rely on that fact it can parse ELF files and don't specify the fields like bss_end_addr though. I'm fairly sure it clears it in this case too, but I'm using Multiboot 2 for my OS so the behaviour could be different.
I initially thought you referred to "the feeling of power"[0], which is also somewhat related, but apparently this is a different one, thanks for sharing.

[0] http://www.themathlab.com/writings/short%20stories/feeling.h...
Including capital gains in regular income taxes _would_ be a tax on wealth, though, wouldn't it? Certainly more so than it is now.

To avoid discouraging savings, the wealth tax could be progressive. The tax on the average citizen's savings is negligible but rentiers pay a substantial portion.

I think an inheritance tax is especially important to prevent the formation of generational wealth.
Airplane created with recycled materials by an amateur.
I'd like to see all taxes replaced by a wealth "tax" in the form of a voluntary--not coerced--payment to the state for the service of recognizing and protecting one's ownership of a piece of property. Payment would be encouraged by the fact that if an individual failed to pay the tax for some property, someone else could take it from them, pay the tax, and become the legally recognized owner, leaving the original possessor with no legal recourse.
Is your company's product open sourced? I think that is the exception, not the rule, and makes takes the discussion in a different direction
Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amnesic_Incognito_Live_Syst..., a Debian fork which forces Tor for all outgoing and incoming connections. Designed to be run from read-only media.
"...the smell of the air".

Ok, I live in Europe, but I was under the impression that SF had a bit of a smog problem.
There's a fine line between each manifestation of batshit so I'm not so sure that's valid.

Edit: for the downvoters; I'm not tarring everyone with the same brush but can you truly trust a person's intentions who exhibits completely irrational behaviour? It's illogical.
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> Can anyone give me an idea how much different this would be for 64bit? Do I just change the nasm directive to `bits 64`?

A lot different. You can see the boot code of my x86_64 hobby kernel project [1].

The reason is that GRUB/Multiboot protocol is actually doing most of the machine initialization, but it can only set up 32 bit mode. 64 bit mode is missing partly because standardizing the Multiboot protocol is dragging behind, partly because there's no one correct way to do this as you can't have identity mapped memory in 64 bit mode (unlike 32 bit mode).

If you read the OSDev wiki, you can find examples of doing machine initialization "from scratch", ie. after the PC BIOS (or UEFI). This involves arcane details about the x86 machine like setting up something called the A20 line (which was a hack that allows to have 1 megabyte of memory - utilizing a spare pin from the keyboard controller!), etc. Dealing with this shit is not time well spent. (UEFI is a lot easier in some ways, harder in others)

This means that the boot code of your kernel must set up long mode, create an initial page table for virtual memory, etc. Here's my limited 64 bit boot code that sets up one 2 megabyte page [2].

Going to 64 bit mode is not that much more code, but it will make kernel development more painful. In particular, switching CPU modes messes up the GDB debugger which must be patched to work at all. And there's a bit more work involved in all the little things that come with it.

So for educational purposes it would make more sense to stick to 32 bit mode than deal with the nitty gritty details of 64 bit long mode.

[1] https://github.com/rikusalminen/danjeros
[2] https://github.com/rikusalminen/danjeros/blob/master/src/arc...
Both iOS and Windows 8 have native compilation only as delivery model and most likely the reason driving ART's design as Dalvik replacement.
> the limiting factor for new construction is land and materials, not red tape.

I strongly disagree. Land and materials aren't creating 3 story height restrictions close to mass transit.

> the best response for the people who keep asserting that "building up" is the magical solution is to point to Manhattan: it's the densest city in America, yet it's just as expensive as San Francisco, if not more so.

If Manhattan had tried to stop new construction at all costs or limit the height of new building for the past 30 or 40 years, do you think prices there now would be lower, higher or about the same as they are now?
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Well it's not like Snowden managed to remain anonymous forever
It's worth pointing out there are a few bugs in James Molloy's tutorial [1], and some of the things he does in them aren't exactly best practices - for example, a few I remember are:

- Disabling interrupts and paging (which also has the side effect of flushing the TLB) to copy memory around by physical address. This could be done without disabling them by mapping all of physical memory into virtual memory instead (possible in 64-bit mode, but in 32-bit there isn't enough room when your PC has a similar amount of RAM to virtual memory space, in which case you could map smaller parts of it as needed).

- Moving the stack around to get around the fact that GRUB doesn't set ESP to some well-defined value (instead of defining the stack yourself, which would be much more robust) and then attempting to rewrite the base pointers to fix it. For example, his code can't tell the difference between integers that just happen to have a value in the range of the pointers and a pointer, and will happily rewrite both. Also as ESP isn't defined by the Multiboot standard you could be using any location at all as the stack (such as some memory address that doesn't exist, or your kernel's code itself, or some memory-mapped area for a piece of hardware, etc.) All of which will mean things go wrong. It's better to just set ESP yourself before you enter C - see another of my comments on this submission here [3].

There's actually a newer and much better version of JamesM's tutorials on GitHub, but I believe they aren't quite finished [2].

[1]: http://wiki.osdev.org/James_Molloy%27s_Known_Bugs
[2]: https://github.com/jmolloy/JMTK
[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7590753
Yes, Go is a kind of blend between Limbo and Oberon.
It was an exaggeration, but it seems that the Shuttle was using computers which were a '70s, then a '90s version of a '60s design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AP-101 At least the '90s upgrade removed the ferrous core memory.
Good investors recognize that markets>technology. With enough time and money, virtually anything is possible. If Cool Planet does succeed, they will change the way the world uses energy. Chieky is definitely eccentric but he's no more of an a$$hole than Jobs was.
I've used both extensively. When iOS screws up, which at least it does in my house regularly[1], you're SOL. We're moving to Android devices slowly (up two Moto Gs at the moment).

[1] we have three iOS devices and I'm the loveless tech support for them.
Can somebody give me a perspective on how much they pay for housing ? I did a quick craigslist search expecting studios to be 2500 a month but it only took me a minute to find a very reasonable 950 A month studio apt.

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/4423411641.html
""How can you dismiss socialism so casually?"

"I've thought a lot about this, actually; it was not a casual remark. I think the fundamental question is not whether the government pays for schools or medicine, but whether you allow people to get rich.

In England in the 1970s, the top income tax rate was 98%. That's what the Beatles' song "Tax Man" is referring to when they say "one for you, nineteen for me."

Any country that makes this choice ends up losing net, because new technology tends to be developed by people trying to make their fortunes. It's too much work for anyone to do for ordinary wages. Smart people might work on sexy projects like fighter planes and space rockets for ordinary wages, but semiconductors or light bulbs or the plumbing of e-commerce probably have to be developed by entrepreneurs. Life in the Soviet Union would have been even poorer if they hadn't had American technologies to copy.

Finland is sometimes given as an example of a prosperous socialist country, but apparently the combined top tax rate is 55%, only 5% higher than in California. So if they seem that much more socialist than the US, it is probably simply because they don't spend so much on their military."

http://paulgraham.com/resay.html

(I know that in the US anything even vaguely leftist gets called "socialism", but Thomas Piketty, the author, is a genuine strong supporter of the French Socialist Party, and the focus of the book is explicitly on government action to prevent anyone from getting 'too' rich. I think it's a fair criticism.)

EDIT: To those not familiar with British history, things got really bad during the 1970s. Inflation peaked at 27%. The government went bankrupt and had to go "cap-in-hand" to the IMF for a bailout. Garbage piled up in the streets because the sanitation workers were on strike. Bodies piled up because the gravediggers were on strike... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_Discontent). I don't want to get into an argument about Thatcher, but everyone at all familiar with the history agrees that the country was in a mess.
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> The Multiboot standard says that the boot loader will clear the .bss section for you - in section 3.1.3: "bss_end_addr Contains the physical address of the end of the bss segment. The boot loader initializes this area to zero"

Ok, good to know.

It certainly doesn't do that unless you tell it to (using the address tag), and this example (nor my hobby kernel) use that.

So the BSS must be cleared or the bootloader told to do so.
"But in places where zoning regulations create artificial limits on home production, the final prices to home buyers jump far above construction costs. In the 1980s and 1990s, they found that virtually all of San Francisco’s home prices were at least 140 percent above base construction costs."

The papers she's citing here exclude apartments from the analysis. They're talking about single-family homes:

http://www.nber.org/papers/w8835.pdf

"The housing price data used in this paper to create the relationship between home prices and construction cost comes from the American Housing Survey (AHS). We focus on
observations of single unit residences that are owner occupied, and exclude condominiums and cooperative units in buildings with multiple units even if they are owned"

Probably not incredibly relevant to a discussion of rental prices.
You're not free to set your own price, there are guidelines set forth in the law (ArbnErfG, § 11 Vergütungsrichtlinien) - which also means that the employer cannot undercut those guidelines and force you to hand your invention over for free. If there's a disagreement about the price, there's a mediation set forth in the law, so the first thing would not be a court case.

In general, german courts are quite employee friendly, so seriously, your employer would probably be at least as afraid to go to court as you'd be. Maybe not if it's a litigation-happy megacorp, but the bulk of german companies is medium-sized (Mittelstand) and they tend to shy away from court cases.
TLDR; but in my opinion the bug is causes by using C, use well test container structures/functions, like those who test the bound of the container during runtime. Those brave enough could disable the bound-checking at compilation for performance gains.
I think having a few ex-Sun Java guys might have influenced that decision. Since all other mobile platforms offer better native support.

This is just my personal opinion.
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No, not really - the prevalent winds are from the west, and to the west is half a world of ocean. Pretty much any pollutants from SF itself are going to get blown east in short order.

Of course, they have a fog problem, but that's a different matter!

Perhaps you are thinking of Los Angeles?
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The solution won't come from the region (i.e., more Bart station apartments in Dublin will not solve The SF problem). Now Oakland...that's a different story since the Bart ride between the two downtowns is a mere 12 mins or so. Now if only Oakland can solve its historic racism and negative perception problems and, therefore, get projects funded by the banks [pause for bankers' cough]. Not to get (more) political...but prop 13 makes all that NIMYBYism possible (and economically feasible when they sue to hold up projects). Oh and it encourages people to keep their homes even when they don't live there and rent them out because rents are rising faster than the property taxes. Just saying
Whatever happened to DVDs?
At least they had planned J2ME support as well.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2974676/this-was-the-origi...
I'm curiously why you think that's creepy. If you suddenly deposit $5 million, but your salary is $100k / year, that's pretty suspicious and report-able.
Geez man.
"... one of the world’s most valuable cultural treasures, San Francisco..." - oh, Americans :).
> I got this running on qemu by cannibalizing a tiny bit of code from xv6 to replace the GRUB dependency.

This thing doesn't depend on GRUB, per se. It requires a multiboot protocol compliant bootloader, and QEMU and Bochs emulator have one built-in.

All you need to do is:

qemu-system-i386 -kernel kernel

This was mentioned in the last lines of the OP, perhaps they were added after you read it.
Actually, ctdonath is pretty well known for using multiple accounts and getting friends to downvote people who disagree with his posts (and to upvote his own). I'd advise against replying to him, as he will try to get you hellbanned.
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This morning I received an email from HN stating that I have requested a password reset. I didn't, did someone else received similar email?
It's still important to test on physical hardware though, perhaps on an old spare machine you don't care about if you want to be cautious, as the virtual machines do not perfectly emulate real hardware. For example, QEMU initializes memory to all zeroes, whereas on a real system it's typically all ones, which led to some interesting bugs in my OS on real hardware where I had forgotten to zero out some memory.
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You're arguing about the definition of the word steal, and your definition is not the widely accepted one. You're facing a long and uphill struggle.
I think most people would agree that the majority of cult members are, in fact, victims. However, since cults encourage the members to cut contact with the outside world, this mechanically facilitate behaviours prohibited by society at large, such as sexual abuse, corporal punishment, forced labour, etc. I don't doubt many of the abusers have managed to convince themselves that they're doing for the greater good, but then again, so do abusers outside of a cult.
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I also do use NDK for my hobby graphics programming, but outside games it is pretty much handicapped and very few people like to write JNI code everywhere. Not to mention the performance issues due to marshaling.

At least now the NDK has some sample source code for JNI helper classes to ease the pain.

Qt is the only sane approach for doing full Android applications in C++, but then one is writing multiplatform code anyway.
The embedded Scribd presentation by Banholzer was very worthwhile.
Actually, banks, government agencies, and, publicly traded companies and their subsidiaries are explicitly exempted from currency transaction reporting requirements.

See: http://www.ffiec.gov/bsa_aml_infobase/pages_manual/olm_019.h...
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Has there ever been a photo taken of the Earth during a lunar eclipse? I checked the LRO website, but apparently they have to power down the instruments due to lack of sunlight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f5MUyF_Q78