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Are there any technical details available? It would be super interesting to see all the stuff that is re-developed from old specs, and to see how all the calculations and commands fit together to reach thw mission goals, or even what the received data and telemetry looks like.

Or is this kept confidential to try to prevent outsiders from going at it like in that xkcd posted in the comments here? Or is the only "protection" based on the requirement to have access to those huge observatories?
They're also occasionally racist:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6061005

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6073625
He's also posted humongous comments which cover more than a page in the browser, spam in its original sense. Like this[0], this[1] or this[2].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6089186
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6047961
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6002791
Recruiting is broken... And now devolved into secret lists of "Who's Cool & Who's Not".
But it is cherry picking. You stopped just short of including this one:

"I thought mind reading and clarvoyance, I donno. It just works.

I use VMware. I wrote all 130,000 lines inside the operating system. It has all tools -- editor, profiler, grep, merge, compiler, assembler, unassembler, shitty partial debugger, graphic sprite creator. BMP-movie-maker. BMP support. Boot loader. ISO9660 ISO file creator.

My BMP movie creator is kinda banned. I want no multimedia, but I use it personally. I'm not serious on a ban -- orther prolly want to make movies, but it's a step down the road to hell.

I generate my website natively. I have a html creator. That's kinda just for me and doesn't belong. What if other want to do it?

I'm chagrinned -- I'm not thinking of any uses. Oh! I normally do hymns, but VMware killed music. Hymns are a legitimate thing I do. Video animations with music melodies and bouncy ball words."

and this one:

"
TempleOS 4 days ago | link | parent [dead] | on: CSVjs: Basic CSV parsing and encoding in JavaScrip...

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Demo/SortFileExample/F64FileSort.....

At the time of the Commodore 64, it was not used for COBOL applications. There were mainframes that banks and businesses used.

This is not what my operating system is for. I made 100 applications and demos that show what it is for. Does yours have sprites in source code?

The RedSea filesystem will do only whole-file reads and writes of contiguous block chunks (or just let you do raw block access). I demand that Linux and Microsoft and VMWare support RedSea on hard drive and CDROM, so I can remove support for ISO9660 and FAT32. God's temple must be perfect.

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/RedSea.html

With whole-file access, only I can do compression."

If self-promotion is a sin we might as well ban half of the frequent posters here (quite possibly including me).
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The community can not be trusted. We are children and we need the strong hand of fatherly figures in positions of power.
Thanks for the notice, just switched 'undead' on. I hate those censorship filters, I can't stand it when some system decides what's interesting for me to read and what's not.
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I thought Kunis and Kutcher are actually decent people? Why is hanging out with them a problem?
His self-promotion is usually completely irrelevant, though. People here do self-promote a lot, but typically relevant products they happen to have made.
Be sure to check out LiveCode.
Pardon my ignorance, but who is this guy? And is he schizophrenic or just trolling HN? Why would we even consider unbanning him?
There may be things that the average man is a bit better at than the average woman and vice versa, but individual variation is much larger than this.

A decent coder is far from the competency profile of an average person of their gender anyway, so that average is not even relevant.
It makes me wonder who actually likes the CFAA the way it is. Does anybody? I don't see how it's helping anybody. Most of the actually malicious computer intrusions come from outside of U.S. jurisdiction. It's like trying to reduce child labor in China by increasing the breadth of the offense and severity of the penalties in Texas. The next thing you know nothing has changed in China but a father in Texas is facing felony charges for having his son stock shelves at the family business.

Who would actually oppose fixing that? Is it purely a lack of understanding the issue on the part of legislators?
I'd be surprised if the probe doesn't carry some batteries exactly for this kind of event...
I am in favor of having to up/down vote the occasional post, with the benefit of giving someone with mental issues a reasonable outlet to express himself.

In the case of all out trolls, they won't do harmful things to themselves and others if they get hell banned. Mental issues are unpredictable.
I see, so in your example service B is modeling a cache miss.

My initial reaction was like, service B is "failing" so wouldn't the fault tolerance and autoscaling you ought to have in place be good enough to deal? But a write-through cache is a good example where there can be a relatively massive disparity in latencies depending on whether it's a hit or miss, and thus a swarm of misses could tie up the server's connections. So getting an extra ~10X connections to work with makes a big difference.

I guess my next thought would be, how broadly applicable are those service characteristics? And is it worth the "risk" of stitching in a library that does bytecode manipulation and whatnot as a general practice, or should I use it in a more targeted fashion?

Again just thinking out loud.. I'm very impressed with the work. Kudos for a library that minimizes the complexity of async programming.
He is supposedly schizophrenic.
Yes, I agree, HN would benefit is more comments were killed. That doesn't mean the solution is to stop killing even the worst of the worst.
I was around here a good long while with shadowdead visible and saw his comments before I read anyone talk about him. Which is to say that as much of a part of the community and it's history as he is, I would expect most of his posts would derail into repeated arguments by relative newcomers and lurkers about whether the account should be banned or not.

But maybe it's worth the repeated explanations to be able to support him (if he wishes it).
I offer 3 services: Incorporation; Annual Compliance; Qualification.

Under Qualification on the home page it reads: Make sure your Delaware Corporation is qualified in every State your Startup is physically present.

I will add that on my Learn More page, but do you have any other suggestions to highlight that issue as it is on the Home page already?
What I think is interesting is in a lot of cases the older logos have the more 'flat' style which now is back in fashion and so looks futuristic/better.
Maybe in mass media, or in the just-passed-one-on-the-street-and-didn't-know-it sense. Here's a pointer to learn about real ninjutsu, as it survives today:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bujinkan
It's standard operating procedure with the White House, no matter who is President, to try to discredit opponents. This is the core of the Plame affair - calls to friendly journalists to plant stories in the press, revealing classified information that suits their purpose.
A friend of mine has been very passionate about the idea of getting rid of passwords and built a proof of concept version of this a few months ago [0]. He also gave a very good talk about it at a JavaScript meet up [1].

[0] https://github.com/handshakejs
[1] http://vimeo.com/90883185
Hi! Designer and researcher, here. When Steve Blank/Eric Ries say you should "validate" your idea, this is not what they mean. This is not validating an idea. This is having a solution and looking for a problem.

To actually validate this idea, you need a few things.

First, you need to get rid of the "I would like" that starts your second paragraph. If you are creating a product or service for other people to use, it doesn't matter what you would "like." All that matters is what they would pay for (or actively use, if you have no business model). That could be something you don't want to work on at all, but an idea you don't care for but others will pay for will always out earn an idea only you love.

Second, you need to get rid of the rest of the second paragraph. That's your pre-defined solution, in search of a problem. Sorry!

(Note: if all you want to do is build something for fun, then you don't need to validate anything at all! Building it for fun should be enough. Just don't expect anything more out of it, and if you decide to productize it, expect to start over from scratch.)

Your actual idea is "TripAdvisor's 'Saved Trips' is inconvenient, and doesn't help me plan the best possible trips around my vacation schedule."

Third, asking strangers here, in this way, isn't helpful. It's not providing true validation. This isn't any better than asking friends and family what they think of your idea. None of the data you get out of this (or asking your friends/family) is valid. It can't be used to support your business case.

So, fourth, to actually validate your idea, you need to find a few different types of people:

- people who have a fixed number of PTO days and who have recently (last six months) taken a trip. you'll want to specify the kind of trips you want to optimize for. day trips within driving distance? multi-day trips? national/international? people think about different kinds of trips differently. you'll want to understand how they made the choice to make that trip, what were their considerations, what was difficult in it.

- people who have a fixed number of PTO days and wanted to travel, but didn't. you'll want to understand why they didn't take the trip.

- people who use TripAdvisor's Saved Trips section. you'll want to understand why they use it. maybe it's inconvenient for your use case because it's meant for people who plan trips differently than you.

With this information, you'll be able to understand the pain points for your imagined user, and that will let you come up with possible solutions. The one you've posited above might be in there, but, crucially, it also might not be.

Once you've addressed the pain points and come up with a potential solution, then you go back to the users in the first two groups and see if they'd pay for it.

That's the only true validation: will they cut you a check? That's the core part of MVP that people forget about: it's the minimum product that someone will pay for.

If they would, that's validation for your idea. If they wouldn't, you need to figure out if your solution is wrong, or if there's not a market there.

Good luck!
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Feature request:

I wish it would be possible to vote on his posts, even though they are "dead". Maybe individual posts that get enough upvotes can be unbanned, or maybe certain users with enough karma can unban selected posts manually?
I did see a TempleOSv2 account (or something similar) posting on a couple of occasions. Also dead. In the light of that I'd say it's more of a problem with the person than the account.
Checkout http://www.chicagoboss.org/about.htm
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I like the idea. It's essentially SFA, Single Factor Authentication, opposed to MFA, but chose the "what you have" aka an email factor rather than "what you know" aka a password.

From a compliance standpoint (ignoring security feature), would this be allowed?

From a security standpoint, not sure this is any better/worse than social login or receiving an SMS. Most of the time you have all these portals (including email) already authenticated so it doesn't really make a difference which you use. The nicety is that you can basically track your logins through email which is pretty neat.

From a usability standpoint, I feel like an SMS would make more sense? I turn off push notifications for email because I receive too many, but I'd be able to read the number from the text and type it in right away (assuming that you'd use standard MFA tokens). Maybe the difference is more between using a 6-digit PIN instead of a link than the source it's received.
I love these essays. Particularly the "what do you do", "living on $40,000", and "value of writing".

This year I lived on around $30,000 from my start-up and probably another $10,000 in help from parents on plane tickets and other non-essentials. It's been a very comfortable year with travel and probably too many toys.

I live in Colorado :-)
Just noticed the url is "LEET" too.
I don't think the comparison is apt; a person with Tourette's has "spasms" (everyone knows about the verbal, but also has muscular manifestation). Typing in a comment requires some degree if cognizance. I imagine if a Tourette's patient had a "reply" button for their words to come out, they'd choose to never click it.

Let's assume though that TempleOS can't help it. If you had an acquaintance with chronic flatulence that was persistent and horrible smelling, how often would you have them at your dinner table?
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Terry Davis created LoseThos/SparrowOS/TempleOS which is an operating system designed for recreational programming. He's worked on it nearly full-time for the past 10 years. He has a mental disorder and sometimes thinks there is a conspiracy going on against him and his OS. He believes God speaks through his operating system and has directed him to create it.

He's banned on HN for frequently being aggressive and using offensive language, especially the N-word (which may not mean the same thing to him as its historical meaning). Some on HN feel that banning for this reason effectively discriminates someone due to their mental illness. He sometimes posts good content and has valuable insights.

The argument against un-banning is that you can still read his posts if you have an HN account and turn showdead on. Terry is an esoteric personality, but many of us are aware of his work and enable showdead for this reason. The posts aren't entirely censored.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS
This is proof that shadowbanning doesn't work. It's supposed to drive him away because he isn't getting any feedback on his posts. Instead, he continues to post, (possibly) aware of his banned status, and because of the fact that he built his own OS, seems to have become something like a mascot around here.

It could be argued that he would simply create another account and continue posting if his account were banned. That's one assumption, but of course, the shadowbanning system seems based entirely on assuming things about people. Creating another account if you discover you've been banned is what you're supposed to do, is it not? For all anyone knows, he would have moved on long ago if not for the way this site seems to act to keep him here.

Meanwhile, every now and then you read a post from someone who discovered they were banned for months, or years, for some slight they weren't even aware of. Apparently someone flipped the switch and decided they needed to go away in the most passive-aggressive way possible.
So first, to pick a knit, if I'd gone to the next comment, I'd have included

God exists. That pretty-much reverses bad and good.
The FBI is evil against God. I am good with God.
Simple as that.

which is responding to Monsegur helping shut down Anonymous.

But you're right, after that, we have the two comments you posted above. Maybe I should've included them.

But then we go at least twelve more comments that are inane, at which point I quit clicking "page next." Are there more insightful ones after that? I know the answer is yes, because TempleOS does occasionally post insightful material, but I don't honestly want to read through all the muck just to get to it.
ASK HN: Why some one down votes you?
Maybe I need to know the protocol on HN. I have mentioned our product teamgum.com in few answers and I have found negative points on some. I don't understand why.
Read the letter:

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Dear Gurbaksh,

You have come across to the public as nothing but an utter... jerk -- if you want to say "You were well aware that if I had gone to trial I would have gotten full exoneration." -- You have one option: Release the video.

It really is that simple. Your opinion of the SFPD aside; if you Truly in your generous, caring, heart-of-hearts realize that all you did was put the needs of RadiumOne above your own and poured your efforts and money into this, then show us how you put the well-being of your girlfriend in the same level of esteem where you would be fully exonerated from such baseless allegations.

Show us the video - then all will be forgiven. Clearly the video shall show you in the light you have been portraying yourself to be in, no?
People are pointing out that his signal-noise ratio is bad, but that's why there's a vote system in place. It seems like the n-word argument might be stronger than the 'poor content of posts' argument to me.
~55% of people already invited a friend to join an app
Do you what's working best as an invitation system? Twitter, FB, SMS, other?
> If you had an acquaintance with chronic flatulence that was persistent and horrible smelling, how often would you have them at your dinner table?

How about every day?

Or would you propose they eat in solitary confinement or something?
Unwarranted self-promotion is frowned upon on nearly every internet forum. Even on-topic self-promotion is generally rejected unless it's specifically requested.
That's great, but neither LibreSSL nor the Linux Foundation open audit project has anything whatsoever to do with the OpenSSL team.
I can't recall if it was this link or a reference in a comment somewhere else that caused me to go read this story yesterday, but I really enjoyed it. I also ended up reading "The Tunnel Under the World" [1] by Frederik Pohl and "How-2" [2] by Clifford Simak. Then, today, in a moment of serendipity, I ran across a recent paper [3] and article [4] questioning whether the increase of automation and unmanned vehicles in military use is going to bring about defense robots turning on their masters. The paper appears to be behind a pay-wall, so I've linked to the abstract. Those with university library access may be able to grab it.

[1] http://www.e-reading.mobi/chapter.php/82060/3/Isaac_Asimovs_...

[2] http://www.e-reading.mobi/chapter.php/82060/14/Isaac_Asimovs...

[3] http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0952813X.2014.895...

[4] http://defensesystems.com/Articles/2014/05/21/Autonomous-arm...
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Fair enough. Have an upvote.
Website design – three solutions or just one?
I'd like to see google post those numbers as well. I do realize that my own experiences are merely anecdotal, but hopefully of interest to enough people to be worth the post.
Any chance she could open source that? My friend's writing a fantasy novel and I think he could really use a realistic-sounding fake name or two.
It's not the profanity. I and I'm sure many other people here are exposed to profanity very regularly and aren't bothered by profanity alone. It's the hateful messages. If anyone posted "N•••••s deserve hell", they would be hellbanned on the spot. You want to give Terry special treatment because he's ill, but being ill doesn't make his comments not awful, it just makes me judge him less severely as a person.
Since it is not in fact possible to wave a magic wand and get everyone to run LibreSSL, which isn't even complete, the virtues of auditing the OpenSSL codebase seem pretty straightforward to me. How much have you donated to open audit projects? I've donated a bit, and I would be pissed to find out that my money was redirected from an audit to a rewrite.

I am not in the least bit interested in the Theo vs. Whoever drama subtext. This whole subthread strikes me as similar to any other thread about a charitable donation, where people come out of the woodwork to cast aspersions that money wasn't given to some worthier cause.
So did anyone else cheat their way to the cake level?
> If they aren't subsidized by the publishers, who will they be subsidized by?

The same plethora of ways complex software gets developed.
I've always thought waiting for a damn registration email was the worst part of the typical sign-up process. Not sure this saves much user frustration.

Drop the email field altogether and you might have something refreshing.
Sadly, this is just the next link in a long line of similar attempts every time there is a boom where the guys per girl ratio gets above 1. Read some articles about the oil boom in North Dakota, although they don't fly them in from NYC.
OK, keeping an open mind, this sounds like a good idea for a startup: (i) try to solve an important problem that has bugged people for millennia and (ii) do so by exploiting inefficiencies of the system (different gender ratios in different geographical locations). The basic idea is nothing new, of course (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail-order_bride).

Still, makes you think, why didn't it work out?

My simple explanation is that the organizers went for the dumb Big Bang Theory thing: brainacs paired with dashing beauties. I would hypothesize that if you were to select random 20 young women from NYC and paired them up with random men from SF (random within reason, of course) you would have had much less problems.
Would this be different in any way from an account which my kids could use for rides, and which would simply notify me with the relevant info when they used it?

That is, does the "emergency" aspect relate to any actual features of the account, or is it simply motivation for Uber to implement your request?
Mojolicious is written by same person who started Catalyst so expect improvements.
Is this a precursor to the first prostitution ring startup?
Ask HN: What do your business cards look like?
Inspired from the designer news post.

What do your business cards look like? Any links to pics?
I think he has had at least four accounts, where he has posted similarly (the others are similar to sparrowos and loseos).
I think that is is pretty well documented that he is.
You should probably migrate to the V3 API.
I'm sorry if it wasn't clear enough from the blog, but the attempt here is not to write a flow control library that solves the callback hell problem like promises does.

You should think of it more as an asynchronous try-catch block, where resources created in the "try" block are automaticially cleaned up.

I believe that flow control in the future will be done with generators; check out https://github.com/visionmedia/co for example.
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They were warned this would happen when they started asking everyone for contact information this year. I hope someone gets fired over this.
The CFAA exists because during the 1980s, there was a concern that no existing statute would deter purely malicious attacks on systems, or any other attack that didn't fit the narrow definition of wire fraud.

I actually do not have a problem with the CFAA's statutory prohibitions on unauthorized access. They seem eminently sensible to me. Don't mess with systems that don't belong to you.

I do think the CFAA has a grave and dangerous flaw: I think its sentencing makes absolutely no sense. I generally do not believe that computer crimes should have sentences that scale with the iterator in a "for()" loop. In the cases where sentences could reasonable scale along with the magnitude of the attack, the meaningful scaling factor should (and I think typically does, in a sane reading of the law) come from some other crime charged along with CFAA.
No matter how many times people show me that arrow, I just cannot see it. Maybe I'm a visual idiot.
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