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Ask HN: Would a “National Fire Drill” save more lives than it cost?
In the wake of the Ebola outbreak, it occurred to me that there is a slim possibility travel and "physical interactions" might actually be imposed.

It also occurs to me that fire drills help the occupants of buildings to be more calm and better prepared in the event of a real fire.

So would it be possibly to estimate the numbers who would die if we practised a two day shutdown as if an infectious outbreak was occurring - not to train the emergency services but to make sure all us citizens had thought about the many necessities of a shutdown? Got a calor gas cooker or extra twenty tins of tomatoes or ...

There is a (small?) likelihood of harm during such an exercise. But will the benefits outweigh the cost?
Most drones run dedicated code. When most OSS drone projects started, embedded Linux systems were still substantially more expensive than microcontrollers, and real-time control systems are probably harder to achieve with Linux than by hand.

Many hobbyist drones are even still based on old 8-bit AVRs because the first few popular projects were based on Arduino.

As far as I know every major project has moved on to 32-bit ARM, though, usually using STM32 Cortex M0 parts.

The Parrot AR.Drone is the only popular drone I know of running Linux as a primary control system.
I didn't downvote you, I can't since you replied to me, but you are selectively quoting the article, which may have been the reason. The article also said the Elk population was reduced by the wolves, and that this impacted plant regrowth but not as much as widely believed, and yes some areas haven't been improved at all. It also said bear populations increased. It's a nuanced piece.
In fact the free market always works better than government regulation in every scenario. Which is why all the countries following the modern welfare state model are in disastrous economic condition and sinking by the day. From Japan to Denmark to the Netherlands (the people of Denmark and the Netherlands are two of the most indebted peoples on earth per capita) to France to Italy to Greece to Spain to Portugal, to even the US (the world's largest welfare state). Nearly every welfare state in the world, to the degree that it is a welfare state, is collapsing. It's also why Europe is still stuck in a depression, with its GDP below 2006 levels, and set to stay that way for another decade.

It was a free market for healthcare in the US that produced the greatest healthcare system in the world, with the best doctors and hospitals, prior to the government's first major moves to nationalize parts of the system nearly 50 years ago. It also produced by far the greatest innovation, across all aspect of the health / medicine field.
The fish shell http://fishshell.com is multithreaded and calls fork, so it can be done. But it is difficult, even if you just call execve().

An example of a problem we encountered: what if execve() fails? Then we want to print an error message, based on the value of errno. perror() is the preferred way to do this. But on Linux, perror() calls into gettext to show a localized message, and gettext takes a lock, and then you deadlock.

This is a hard problem to solve because it requires knowing the status of all locks. This breaks the abstractions that library authors present, where locks are internal and not exposed.
> The rolling shutter is also why stills from gopro videos never quite live up to how clear the videos look in motion.

I've thought about this as well. I always assumed the lack of clarity of single frames extracted from video material is because the eye/brain incorporates several images shown really quick in succession into one whole image. So when only a single frame is shown, there's not as much information in that as, say, 10 frames shown quickly in succession.
Yes, there is.

John Lion's "A commentary on the Sixth Edition UNIX Operating System", goes through the PDP-11 UNIX kernel line by line.

http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/Lions/book.pdf

Page 37, Section 7.13, "newproc":

1906: Call "xswap" (4368) to copy the data segments into the disk swap area. Because the second parameter is zero, the main memory area will not be released.

1907: Mark the new process as "swapped out".

1908: Return the current process to its normal state.
When ever people talk about password/passphrase checks per seconds, remember that this is heavily depended on what kind of encryption software that you are using and if it is using key stretching algorithms.

For example, luks when creating encrypted partions, checks the cpu in order to stretch the time it takes to decrypt the master key. The faster the CPU, the stronger the key becomes against brute force attacks.
I'd try to find a tech meetup that'd be ok with you bringing 10 kids along. They're often hosted in the offices of startups/tech companies. The museums are great, but this could be a cool experience that lets them see a side of SF that's a bit removed from the rest of the touristy stuff.
Show HN: Jinja2schema – Type inference algorithm for Jinja2 templates
tl;dr: wolf good, deer bad
Not only those features are done by Google exactly the same way, but the fact is, bing copied most of them (if not all) after Google did it - including blindly copying their search results directly from Google - as everyone here might already know(http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2011/02/01/microsofts-bing-caugh... ).

It's probably a propaganda post, I'm not sure how it even got 13 points (at present).
Amazon’s DynamoDB Gets Hugely Expanded Free Tier and Native JSON Support
There was, in fact, a point in time when programming was 100% dominated by women.
English has a countable "support" - it can be used to refer to several physical objects in various structural contexts (architecture being one). That is not the sense in which it's being used here, though.
This has already been done:

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/521676/online-anonymity...

You can buy the product here [1] for $49. As far as I can tell, the only difference is that one is opensource while the other doesn't seem to be.

[1] https://pogoplug.com/safeplug
Fun Blog on Cool Gadgets. GoPro Hero4 Camera
Crayfis: Cosmic rays found in smartphones
New 60GHz WiFi from Samsung
The long log-in duration doesn't really bother me in and of itself. No-one uses my computer without my permission, and no-one uses my browser, period (I create new accounts for people).

If you really wanted, you could shorten the session lifetime and automatically renew it upon each use, perhaps up to some limit.
6 reasons technology will change how you look for parking
Some Wolf=good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk8n-I53Ib8
Only 100 cybercrime brains worldwide
There were only reasons I found compelling: 10, 12, 15, 20

10 Google has to a certain extent, but I've not seen anything as interesting as digging into the individual pose of a picture.

12 I typically use wolfram for. 15 I have yet to have a need for. 19 is interesting, but not something I particularly have use for.

In every other case, the reasons were irrelevant to me (echoing the IDGAF towards all the background-photo related "reasons") or the feature is present in Google. Often better.

So... for me, Google still is my search engine of choice. Especially in regards to reason #1. I took the bingiton challenge, and In every instance of a search query I actually make on an everyday basis, Google either won or tied with bing. Most of those searches are code-related.
The Free Internet Project
Borders are only one way to exclude people from society, and not a very efficient one if the only goal is to "exclude the psychopaths", which are no more likely to be on one side of the border than the other.

Or maybe I missed your point?
> I think the fundamental problem is that Android permissions (and privilege controls for most other platforms) are far too coarsely-grained.

I think that point of view is only relevant to a small percentage of users who pay enough attention.
This is so cynical. If you ask any alumni, you'd know that we spend most of the time during the program to tell startups NOT to even think about fundraising. 11 weeks of the program is focused on them talking to users and building stuff. Only the week before Demo Day do we start working with them on their presentations to investors and fundraising strategies. This is because the best way to fundraise is to actually build something that people want and then just show the evidence to investors. I have no interest in helping people manipulate or trick others into giving a startup money. Also, it almost never works. The most persuasive startups are usually the ones pitching the truth. It's also so much easier that way.
"The MBAs that fit the stereotype usually identify themselves strongly with their education, and they're in the minority."

Exactly.

I've noticed over the years that one can find people whose self-esteem is grounded in their MBA across the entire spectrum of selectivity, from the top-5 programs to online degree mills. Regardless of where they went, it's a very good heuristic indicator that you should STAY AWAY.
I've always thought fork() was a hack anyway. 99% of the time, fork() is followed by a call to an exec() variant. The actual process forking behavior seems useful in only a small set of cases that could be handled by spawning a process and passing state explicitly. The benefits of fork() don't seem to offset its costs or justify its widespread use.

fork() is one of those things that's conceptually quite elegant but in practice has too many problematic edge cases. (Signals seem to fall into the same group.)
I can't get this to work on my iPhone. When I visit mitm.it from my phone, or any other device, it redirects me to grit.io. How do I install the CA. I have the proxy up and running on my Macbook pro.
The following is not a reason not to use Bing for others, but (just saying): almost none of these features work for me in Finland. Seriously, there was not even a calculator available a while back.
Thank you for putting the book / website up on Github[1]. I would love to see more notes shared using the template you've provided.

1. https://github.com/gkoberger/startupnotes
"Spawning another process" is a very complicated task. There's tons of process state that you need to set before the child starts: process group, file descriptors, signal mask, foreground status, etc.

You can try to bundle it all up into a single API like posix_spawn, but the API becomes large and it's hard to cover everything. posix_spawn sure doesn't.

fork is an elegant solution to this problem: you can run code as the child, before the child gets to start. I am not aware of any alternative that's as flexible.
Drugs flushed into the environment could be cause of some wildlife decline
how does this get upvoted?

> I work for Bing

really.

the majority of the features listed that make bing "better" are in google. the rest are either entirely subjective, or re-hashes of the previous "feature".

if you love emacs/linux/bing/zsh/ps4/some-other-well-known alternative-to-a-mainstream-product and use it, great, but this sort of fanboy-ism is how heated and petty "wars" start out on the internet. and we do not need another one of those. please.
This is mentioned in the article including a couple points about the size (safeplug is twice the size so less convenient for taking with you) as well as the security flaws found in September.
You're not going to be able to adequately rely on this feature by itself for years, probably. I'd guess a 5-6 year window before it's widespread.

Considering there isn't even a LTS kernel/system out with it coming anytime soon, I'd suggest you keep your fallback code to check `/dev/urandom`, even if FD exhaustion/chroots are a problem.
Bad Leadership and Why the Golden Rule Sucks
It's easy to forget how much disease aided in the European colonization of America.

"The Mayflower first hove to at Cape Cod. An armed company staggered out. Eventually it found a recently deserted Indian settlement. The newcomers—hungry, cold, sick—dug up graves and ransacked houses, looking for underground stashes of corn. [. . .] When the colonists came to Plymouth, a month later, they set up shop in another deserted Indian village. All through the coastal forest the Indians had "died on heapes, as they lay in their houses," the English trader Thomas Morton noted."

The native Americans didn't have the same natural resistances to the diseases the Europeans brought. At some points, Smallpox traveled so quickly through the native populations that whole villages would die before the Europeans even got there.
" The goal is to make something people want, not to impress YC."

As they say "agree in part deny in part".

One of the advantages perhaps is not so much impressing YC. It's not tripping any alarms that say "this team is clueless because look what they did or said ha ha ha".

Besides you expect anyone applying for something important to put in effort. And part of that effort is digging up information (this is part of sales actually) on who you are selling to and what in general appeals to them. And being generally aware and up to speed on "the game".

Any individual error probably doesn't mean much. But a group of them do mean something.

I remember the time in the early 90's when I worked for a company out in SV. It sold a Mac peripheral product. The VP of sales (who I worked for) needed to know what things I needed to do demos of the product. One of the things that I mentioned was "a syquest drive".

He said "what's a syquest drive"?

I thought "how can you read publications about the Mac and not run into ads for syquest drives and know what they are just by osmosis". At that point I knew who I was dealing with. Years later (ntim of course) he isn't working "in the industry".
> I've yet to see a use case that couldn't be handled with either threads, or spawning another process

fork() allows you to set up file descriptors such as stdin and stdout before execing another process. This is essential for pipelines.
Ah, that's a use case I didn't even think of. Makes sense in that situation then. I rarely deal with things that require USB license dongles, but I can see that as being a pain this may alleviate.
qnaal's point, of course, was to derail the interesting conversation HN is trying to have with some meaningless contingent political bullshit. I envy you, that such intent wasn't clear upon reading. Suffice to say, there is a certain class of American political lizard that enjoys pretending there's no problem we can't solve without some more of that good old-fashioned racism. Just downvote and move on.
Does surge pricing increase the rich-poor divide?
I know several companies that have went through the program - it's legit.
One upside of kernel modules: you can build a very small kernel without having a ton of features. If you actually need the xbox one controller support - you can enable the module. Really useful on small footprint devices.
If this tickled your fancy, you should checkout the book "SQL Performance Explained" http://sql-performance-explained.com
I'm also a NL resident freelancer. I've just started putting money into index trackers as I have very little to speak of with respect to normal pensions.

Any advice? I'm mid-thirties.
> a wide majority of Americans believe he should return to the US and face trial.

s/trial/torture
Keep in mind this applies to people strongly identified by any degree.

At one of my former companies, there was a person who was known to say "Who is the one here with the PhD?" when that person's opinion was challenged.
Nature doesn't need people. People need nature
Show HN: Worried about Perf of Cordova/Hybrid Apps? Check Out Browser-perf
Show HN: Star Wars characters in html/css
Traffickers who torture
Note that Tor is still being actively funded by US law enforcement (http://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/) and that Tor's security has been repeatedly broken by US law enforcement in order to take down sites illegal under US law. (http://www.wired.com/2014/09/fbi-silk-road-hacking-question/)

It is debatable if Tor provides any more security than just using someone else's open wifi point. Great for evading bans on online forums, worthless against the DEA.
You're either earning EUR100k+, or your accountant sucks if you're paying close to 50% :P
Does anyone know if DisplayLink compatibility has been re-introduced? It seemed like it was in there for a while and then taken out... Ormy foo in getting DisplayLink devices to work out of the box is weak.
> All it does is provide you with some knowledge.

Maybe if you are talking about MBAs in general. But for an MBA from an elite school the knowledge is secondary: The primary benefit is the stamp of approval; the filtering in the selection process.
Back to reddit...
Google is still much better when searching for non-purchase non-torrent downloadable music, movies, and ebooks. Plus Google has those convenient links to chilling effects, which, when the site is available, surprisingly provide pretty close to direct links to what I was looking for.
Then why do free market systems produce by far the greatest standard of living as compared to any other system? To the degree that countries use the free market, they're prosperous, it's that simple.

If you were right, Hong Kong would have been impossible.

People like to reference Scandinavia. Well, Swedes in the US possess a higher standard of living than Swedes living in Sweden do.

And Sweden's modern boom the last two decades was produced by a shift toward the free market, rather than away from it. Previously it was mired in a long-term stagnation brought on by heavy welfare state policies.

The free market version of the Untied States produced the first, and by far the largest, true middle class in world history. There isn't even a close second. Prior to the the US abandoning the free market system 40 years ago, it was basically at the top of the pile in nearly every metric, from education to savings to growth to upward mobility to standard of living; along with an amazing college system that was affordable, and an affordable healthcare system that was the best in the world.

If the welfare state worked, it wouldn't be collapsing rapidly all around the planet. The debt piled up faking prosperity under the welfare state system has begun to come due, and all those gains that were pulled forward to pretend the system worked, are eroding.
Not sure why it was downvoted but maybe those people think it was because abortion boom during this time after ruling that legalized it in some states and hence, would be criminals never being borned that attributed to fall in crime rates.

Maybe it's even a combination of both.
Not sure... one of the Tokyo stations I think. It was still an open air platform, but had doors on the edge of the platform around man-height that aligned with the train doors.
The article he is referring to is this one: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/tiny-box-can-anonymize-everythi...

The kickstarter page makes no mention to other similar products, which to me seems pretty dishonest. Nobody uses the "Risks and challenges" section correctly.
Will Facebook’s Atlas Ad Server Alert Privacy Regulators?
The way you describe it, could prepared queries still delay the creation of the plans till exec time? There are some things that cause plans to change like sort order but usually, if they are just parameterized, no need to do so.
Mobile version is pretty thrown together, but a good read still: http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_9035/index.htm...

Surprised they didn't put much (any?) effort into a mobile friendly version; the main site looks amazing and really compliments the story.
The font used on this page is difficult to read. I'm running current Chrome on Win7.

http://i.imgur.com/QB8RJwl.png

note: I checked that screenshot on another machine and it didn't seem so bad.... so maybe this is also something strange with the monitor / res I'm using... still thought I'd mention it.
Capnproto-java alpha release with benchmarks
How to Avoid Delusional Thinking in Start-up Growth Strategy
“Complete Acquiesence”: How the Pontiac Aztek Happened
The Gamergate controversy
The other common case is someone clicking the downvote button in error. Is there any way to undo a downvote, or is that a planned future feature?
Hate to be that guy (pedantic), but this stuck out like a sore thumb: 'Distill your values ... "Collabtoration" ... '
Show HN: Omniscient: Abstracting React – fast top down render of immutable data
> so far they haven't done anything really malicious with this data

... that we know of. Remember J. Edgar Hoover's FBI? He controlled the most powerful politicians in the country, because he knew intimate details about their lives. And that was based mostly on tapping phones. Who knows what kind of control these government agencies are able to exert on representatives with the surveillance apparatus they command today.
Ok, I did a test. "zero to one" in Google - all results on the first page are book related. In Bing - not even ONE result is about the book, instead I got things like "0 (number)" (Wikipedia), "nhibernate - Modeling one to zero or one" (a stackoverflow question), a clock named "onezero", "Zero Hour" movie on imdb...
It's in 'related searches' but that's it.

Not book related results are ok, but not even one book related link in the first five pages? I think I will stay with Google for now.

(I did this in private mode to disable Google search personalization).

edit: Ok, Bing starts showing the book when I change location to United States. Default results are these [0]. Seems they really need to work on their location-related personalization, these results are complete trash.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/v5LqSBB.png
Thanks! Will fix :)

EDIT: fixed!
> physically acquire portions of other satellites

Sounds like the plot of You Only Live Twice

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Live_Twice_(film)
This seems to be the approach most new languages use. People in the Clojure community also emphasize using libraries over frameworks. I think the reason is is that earlier adopters tend to prefer this approach and there is a lot of agreement and development work required to make a full fledged framework like django.
The pthread_atfork() function shall declare fork handlers to be called before and after fork(), in the context of the thread that called fork(). The prepare fork handler shall be called before fork() processing commences. The parent fork handle shall be called after fork() processing completes in the parent process. The child fork handler shall be called after fork() processing completes in the child process. If no handling is desired at one or more of these three points, the corresponding fork handler address(es) may be set to NULL.

The order of calls to pthread_atfork() is significant. The parent and child fork handlers shall be called in the order in which they were established by calls to pthread_atfork(). The prepare fork handlers shall be called in the opposite order.

I'm not sure if that's the best approach, but it's an attempt at least.
>Not really. A life is not property.

Life of other sentient beings, like dogs or apes, still considered a property. Wrongly so of course.

>It cannot be acquired or given away.

only for about next 20 or so years until upload and cloned bodies become accessible. The killer (or his insurance) will have to cover repairs or replacement cost in case of "total", and be charged with intentional property destruction if it was intentional.
Prizm, turns your speakers into a learning music player
As a user and proponent of Tor, I think products like this are a bad idea. Buying a box that promises "reliable anonymity" without understanding all the behavioral changes necessary to support that is dangerous.

Educating users all over the world on how to resist censorship and protect their anonymity is important. Buying a piece of hardware doesn't achieve that.