skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Page-aligning the segments makes it (much) cheaper to load pieces of the executable on demand (demand paging) which reduces the amount of physical memory required to launch the program.

In this case the entire executable, headers and all, can fit in 1 page, so instead of just having that one page read into memory and executed immediately, you have to read another one for a total of 2 pages. For a small executable, this overhead can result in up to twice as many pages being read in, and although for larger ones that require many tens or more pages it decreases proportionally, it still doesn't make any sense to add otherwise completely useless bytes that have to be read in; disks (and SSDs) are several orders of magnitude slower than memory, so if the block containing the header is going to be read, it might as well include some more data (like the code of the program) that would need to be read later in any case.
I think the problem is that it's still one of the most effective smokescreen generating compounds out there, so militaries are hesitant to ban it entirely and not have it available for that use.

But, just because it's not marked 'incendiary' on the side of the munition doesn't mean it can be used (both purposefully or accidentally) to horrible effect on people.
Fight Club / Dövüş Kulübü
>Uh, seriously? Destroying other people's stuff just because you can't check where it flew from?

Of course I'm serious. Did you miss the part where its buzzing around the nuclear power plant? At the very least that is a designated no fly zone.

Look up "European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection" - its a bit more relevant than your police holster thing.
Worth noting that even with system like SAGE in place "The bomber will always get through" was probably fairly accurate - in a secret exercise in the early 1960s a small number of UK strategic bombers managed to "bomb" New York, Washington and Chicago even though the entire air defence system was looking for them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Skyshield
oooh oooh, I know the answer to this!

One that's legally defensible when you get hacked, both in terms of keeping the data commissioner and class-action suits off your back, but also in terms of suing your employer for unfair dismissal if you get axed when it happens on your watch.

This is what makes certification like ISO2700000001 and PCI-DSS so amazingly popular, 'cuz hey, I ticked my boxes.
Are there a lot of women using Urbit or something?
Minor historical point. SCCS dates from 1972 and was first written for the IBM 370 and then for Unix on the PDP 11. See http://basepath.com/aup/talks/SCCS-Slideshow.pdf .

Tar didn't come out until years later, so the text:

> A long long time ago, in the dim and distant past, revision control consisted entirely of making a tarball of your code tree from time to time and calling that "releases". We passed from there to "local" revision control such as RCS and SCCS and from there to ways to collaborate with tools like CVS and thence to SVN, TLA, BZR, git etc.

reflects a personal history of "we" rather than a global one.

For what it's worth, some of my code has been published in books and magazines, so it does exist in the sense the author means, even though it wasn't in revision control.
I'm considering it as an option for running proprietary video conference applications which either don't work or are chronically bad on Linux.
Have you considered using non low energi BT might introduce a battery hit that apple dont like?
Oh super, thanks. I'll have to try that out.
Scalability.

They're all b2b with high ($500k+) customer lifetime values, but the first business, in the best case, could serve about 30 clients simultaneously. The second could serve (in the best case) a few hundred. The startup could serve thousands.
Few years ago on one day I took al my toys from the equity market (I've got this feeling that I'm not creating any real value and wasn't happy with that) and burned all money in my first startup (http://fashioner.com domain is for rent/sale ;).

1 year later I've inspired my friend to start another startup (service market on national level). Unfortunately VCs in Poland did not wanted to believe that it is such a good opportunity (and it was, currently 2 big competitors sharing this market). But the good thing was that we have inspired another friend to join us and gathered some money.

Now, 2 years later, we've managed to create another startup from all that ;) (http://ElimiApp.com). Just taking off, seed in the bank, fingers crossed!

I think it is just about the way you think and what you want to do in live. I could live very comfortably live from securities transactions (but create nothing, nada) or comfortably while working in some bigger company (no way). Instead I've choose to fight for years for my own thing.
An in-depth analysis of the new Android 5.0 Camera API
You are never going to win that argument against the military, unless you are able to come up with a better way to deal with the terrorists that doesn't put US soldiers at risk.

As for the civilian deaths - well there are always civilian deaths for military action.
Show HN: Confetti.js
Google Genomics can store your entire genome online for a mere $25 a year
Desserts seem to be the best bet - the macaroons and cookies didn't look too bad...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis
Decoding Apple as a luxury tools company
First, I don't think Apple hardware is expensive when you compare it to other machines with similar specs.

The reason for building my own Hackintosh was mostly getting a machine that was good for gaming (a powerful GPU). It wasn't about saving money, as the same money would have bought a decent iMac, but using that money better.
I got so pissed that I just decided not to do anything about it - hopefully people will get that duck is now an offensive word.

We keep at this long enough and every word is a swear word - and the devs can duck themselves.
Why just French, Swiss and German? RC aircraft can be flown over anything, I doubt the US or UK have any better protection from RC Aircraft than the French, Swiss or Germans.
How does GPS do it? Seems to work ok.

And why would it take 1000Kg to do 4Mbit? I do 4Mbit at home with a few ounces. Antennae? Improvements coming there. Fuel? Use a tether and electricity - that's overdue.

Anyway, this is the future, aiming at past solutions makes you pessimistic.
Not sure what you mean here? Could you elaborate?
Looking at the broader issues here, I know I've had the same sort of problems with the ISO 10303 (STEP) standard [1]. Overall, it consists of dozens of $100+ books, most of which amount to little more than a long list of descriptions of the classes that can be used to transmit CAD data. Everything is in turgid bureaucratese. I've seen nowhere in the standard with any sort of high level description of how those classes are intended to be used, no motivation for why things are the way they are. There are some recommended practices documents, but they mostly seem to cover fringe areas like how to handle colors rather than core areas like the preferred approach for handling CAD geometric data.

It just seems so odd to spend so much effort to develop a public standard, then make it expensive and hard to use. Doesn't that defeat the entire point of having a standard?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_10303
I would venture to guess that those organizations feel that the pains of working with a prototype is worth the payoff of shaping the final product (not to mention the immediate advantages of rust's already stable safety features).
I'm not aware of any linters applying this sort of logic in suggesting to extract numbers to their own declarations. One could also go as far as declaring strings and whatnot...
These RC Aircraft will be almost impossible to track if set up correctly. Using Jamming devices would be stupid as it would block out mobile phone frequencys and you would need a strong enough jammer to block high flying aircraft. Even if the vehicle was jammed it would just fly home, but who says that home is where the controllers are, some of these aircraft can do 80km+ flights...It's not an easy issue to fix.
>is it worth the risk to have bullets falling somewhere in a nuclear facility?

The bullets aren't the issue. Nuclear facilities are usually not built from cardboard & prefab. The size of the drone is more the question - these seem to be smallish ones so it should be reasonably safe to have it drop near the plant.
I think that most people who buy a yacht then proceed to enjoy using it. Preparing for the end of the world is different because it is based on an arguably incorrect judgment call, and the investment will typically not pay off.
Simple Authentication Protocol
iPhone oscillating optical feedback loop
Cult of the Dead Cow Publications
It was... complicated. Even though we were having money problems and losing people, the founders wanted to keep pressing on. I was tired of hearing that good things (e.g. Series A funding) were "just around the corner" and left. So open-sourcing the work wasn't really an option.

I don't think it would have helped. The truth about Silicon Valley/VC-land ageism is that it cuts both ways, if you're not well-connected. (Kids with rich parents can raise VC at 24, average people can't.) Your calendar time sets an upper-bound on where you can be placed, and while an impressive open-source portfolio can make getting the job easier, it doesn't get you a better job.
I'm still a fan of the Aldrin Cycler. Put an utterly massive, nearly self-sufficient space station into an orbit that touches both Mars and Earth (or presumably other pairs). Give it all the radiation shielding and spinning gravity you'd need to survive indefinitely in space. Now your per trip cost is just getting the astronauts to and from the surfaces of each planet.
> Firing a firearm

Why does it have to be a firearm? Bean bags from an air cannon would be more than sufficient.
Would love to help in some way.
What the Heck Is the Event Loop Anyway?
I'm so glad they're using Open Street Map for this :D
> But what remains interesting, and glaringly obviously absent, is user identification.

I wonder if using Facebook over Tor would help in that regard.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/making-conn...
Is endvr supposed to be short for Endeavor? I pronounced it as End Over, then instantly converted it to Bend Over, which actually seems like an excellent name for a job-hunting site...

From the employer/recruiter side, I'm curious how your service differs from LinkedIn's own offerings for recruiters, and if you're worried about intruding on LinkedIn's turf, given that they derive the bulk of their revenue from recruiters.
Having read through your post I think your stagnation was due to the wrong pitch, and, secondly and as odd as it sounds, due to that dorky faces illustration at the top of your landing page. I can't think of a single case where a forum maintainer would say "gosh, I need a better community building tool" rather than "I think I need a better forum". Then, say, he lands on your page and the first thing he sees is a bunch of ugly stylized mugshots, whereby what he's looking for is a single beautiful screenshot of a forum page... I mean it may sound like a minor, subjective thing, but the first impression lasts and I'm willing to bet that it had an extreme negative effect on your bounce rate. You got the "hello" completely wrong.

(I'm writing all this because I really liked what you've been doing and I still think it's a viable idea ... that you just happen to have overdone a bit).
http://www.mathnet.ru/php/archive.phtml?wshow=paper&jrnid=uf...
also of note: https://blog.torservers.net/20141109/three-servers-offline-l...
One (rather wasteful) workaround to delay the discovery a little bit is to have each node generate an equivalent amount of traffic going somewhere else.

The concept of a hidden service is itself interesting since it must still be "visible" to some extent, or else nothing could communicate with it; but at the same time, it's attempting to hide any indications of its presence. Attacks based on a large volume of traffic will always work if the service is centralised, since that's where all the traffic will (eventually) go. The only real solution I see is to make hidden services highly distributed so that the load is spread out and largely masked by other traffic.

Somewhat related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_flux
You should probably watch that video,[0] the narrator explains pretty decently what is going on.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XkV6IpV2Y0
The absurdity of nuclear plant safety: The risk of a disasters is "completely negligible", but fly a model plane or drone above a plant and all hell breaks loose.

You can't have it both ways: Either scenarios with attackers flying Cessnas full of fertilizer into your facility etc. are a safety danger and the plants need to be reinforced immediately or drones above your plant are completely harmless and should not be prosecuted anymore than drones flying above the house of a celebrity. And if these plants are not safe, then shooting drones from the sky and imprisoning drone pilots will not change that fact.

Edit: I've added quotes around "completely negligible" to make clear I was citing public opinion rather than presenting my own (@quonn).
You mean http://mixergy.com/ ? :-)
Berlin’s digital exiles: where tech activists go to escape the NSA
Why not just send robots?
perhaps the darkmarket fork https://openbazaar.org/
Veritasium does some great videos too:

https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium/videos
When I read through the urbit git page and it finally clicked to me what this is and what it could mean, I literally said out loud in my room "Oh, that's really fucking cool."
Switzerland and Germany are both phasing out nuclear power, by the way.
Medium Killed Clickbait “Journalism”
Entropy Key
I am working now. I am going to stick with this for a long time now.

Whenever I want to go into a venture, anyone I work with seems to have serious issues. I worked with someone who was a bit too controversial, another too attached to the business model, believing things will turn around.

All I can say is: Know your founders. I'd go far as to focus on their personal situation, like their risk tolerance, their "philosophy", their personal attachments, etc. The goal for a company is not to save the world, but to make money for you and your partners. If any personal attachment can get in the way, like "saving the world", or "keeping control of the company", it will. My major failure was not seeing this.

At least for me there is a regular salary now.
> Actually a recipe can be copyrighted for it's content as well as patented. Pharmaceuticals do it all the time

Nope.

http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html

http://paleomagazine.com/recipe-copyright/#protected

Those are on recipes. Clearly not copryightable in US law, really.

Pharmaceutical companies typically use patent, not copyright. The one place pharmaceutical companies try to use copyright is in "product information documents" (not the pharmaceuticals themselves), and even that is tenuous, as some courts have considered them statements of fact that are not copyrightable, and there was actually specific legislation about pharmaceutical product information sheets recently, which I don't know the details of well enough to speak on.
Reid Hoffman – Managing talent in a networked age
I ran one for around three years before getting the Mac Pro, and it did everything I needed it to without problems. The only problem I was having was a hard drive corruption issue in OS X 10.8 and newer, which turned out to be a problem on my Mac Pro, too, until I finally realized the problem was with Apple's exFAT drivers and not with my hackintosh setup.
I thought it was pretty common to think that a benevolent dictatorship was a great way to run a country. The problem is in making sure your dictator is benevolent. Nobody knows how to do that, so we try non-dictatorial systems instead.
I think monads might possibly somewhat alleviate the problem of writing 5 different versions of sin by hand but I think you would still need to do some dynamic dispatching to handle the rounding modes, which according to Stephan is going to be a big performance hit.
Microsoft owns Skype, not eBay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_Technologies
"It’s not farfetched to say that sometime in the near future, Amazon’s largest income share will come from their own in house products rather than their online retail sales."

Amazon's in house products are channels to their online retail sales.
I'd advise you to not go back to your ex business partner.
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Actually, the risk of disasters is not negligible at all, in particular if there is a sufficient number of power plants (431 worldwide currently).

In the last 30 years, we have already seen two incidents that were above the "maximum credible accident", that is the probability of them happening was considered to be negligible.

With that number of plants running, I would expect a major incident _somewhere_ every 20 years and historically we have seen more than that.

Here [0] is a quite recent study by probably the most important german research institute that predicts one incident every 10 to 20 years, based on the number of plants running and data of historical incidents. There is also a nice summary in German [1].

[0] http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/12/4245/2012/acp-12-4245-2012...

[1] http://www.mpic.de/index.php?id=34298&type=0
> APIs on the other hand, are mainly for humans to communicate with each other when building systems that interoperate.

I guess maybe that'd be the argument. To me, it seems pretty clear that API's are for "computer systems interoperating with each other". That's what an API is, an interface for one piece of software to interoperate with another. Seems to me and many others anyway. "Interface" kind of means "interoperation", an interface is the where and how of one component interoperating with another. I'm a bit surprised that any programmer would disagree actually, but I've been surprised before.

The scary thing is that non-technical judges will have to understand what an API is and what it's for here.

I do agree that software code does some weird things to copyright and starts to make the whole thing odd, and agree with you about "method of operation" thing -- the trick about code, different from former "creative expression fixed in a physical medium", is that code _does things_, in a way different from previous forms of creative expression fixed in a physical medium. Copyright is a weird edifice to begin with, and code makes it weirder, for sure.

> APIs are no different from any other code.

To me, API's are _not code_ at all, sot that's why they are different from "any other code." An API is a _description of code_, not code itself. Code implementing an API is surely copyrightable, but it seems to me clear that an API -- the description of classes, methods, and signatures -- is not code, it is a description of features of code. Google here lost by making code that _worked the same_ as Sun's, not because they copied Sun's Java source. And that's why it seems clear to me that it ought not, consistent with previous copyright law, to be copyrightable.

But clearly people will disagree, especially non technical people, which is why this is a case. I think most technical people tend to agree with me, but obviously not all.
How about Nvidia's Denver chip? The single-core performance will really help web-browsing and I bet the power is very good for long battery life. ASUS zenbooks have a great chassis. My 2c.
One of my main projects was split into a lot of sub-project repos which made is easier to manage and version those sub projects independently.

For private projects, GitHub charges by the number of repos and BitBucket charges by the number of users. Initially I was using BitBucket but after having used GitHub I eventually opted to pay more on GitHub. There are two major factors for this. First the UI for GitHub is extremely polished. It's a hands-down winner. BitBucket has always felt aged and clunky in looks and operation.

The second reason is the tie in to open source which makes it very easy to fork open source projects on GH, and then include them in your projects. Again, the network and activity graphs, the commit log, diff/blame/pull-request features etc, just make this whole aspect a lot more fun to use.

I suspect the only reason BitBucket is surviving is because of their differentiated pricing model. If GitHub offered a hybrid pricing (repo or user based), it would mark a sharp decline for BitBucket even though as a consumer I prefer if they were more competitive.
All or Nothing vs. Keep What You Raise
It's worth noting the differences here for students too - bottom line is that despite all the awesome deals Github have procured for students [0] Bitbucket completely dominate here.

Github offer a free micro account - 5 private repos, unlimited collaborators. Even without a student offer Bitbucket offer unlimited private repos with 5 collaborators for everyone, which is already awesome for students. They'll bump it up to unlimited collaborators for students though, which is a seriously generous deal.

It's not as slick but it's a no brainer for anything that can't be public, which there's a lot of in university.

[0] https://education.github.com/pack
Give two or three weeks once the move is set in stone (so ~6 months from now). Explain your reasoning, and be open to the possibility that they will offer you the option to work remotely if you're good.
Fire Destroys Thai Bitcoin Mining Facility
I wish the website pages would load a bit faster.
Did you mistype q cycle? I tried googling it, but found 0 relevant results.
With luck AMD eventually bundles one of these with a small integrated GPU. They have somewhat well working Open Source drivers already.
The project is based on a fundamental insincerity, which makes me suspicious. All material about Urbit makes a big point of their minimal spec, again so in the linked piece: "The spec fits on a T-shirt and gzips to 340 bytes."

What do people expect when they read a thing like that? I don't know about you, bit I'd expect that I could ignore the obfuscated strangeness of their higher level languages etc and just implement stuff to that minimal spec.

So you expect you can do that. But you can't. That minimal spec might as well not exist; you can't just read it and go on to implement, say, a programming language on top of Urbit.

"But you can!" you might object. Try it. Read nothing but that spec and implement, say, a tiny BASIC on top of it. Compile some simple programs. Run them. Now, what happens? Nothing, for now. But look, my processor core is heating up. Something must be happening! Just wait. Wait. Wait. No, still nothing. Wait some more. Just a few years, maybe? No, still nothing (except heat). Etc.

So no, that elegant spec doesn't give you anything but a way to heat your computing cabinet.

Realizing this, I put Urbit in the "suspicious, may be a con" bin. Hasn't escaped from there, yet.
LLVM website down
I read "consulting" a lot in your comments, but what does that actually mean?
There are prepaid cards in almost every US grocery and convenience store, typically Mastercard and Visa. They don't require any ID to buy and have a fee around $5. Most can't be reloaded.
Is nature a low-complexity sampler?
OK Labs Story: The Beginning
Supported OSes: "Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Service Pack 3, Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP"

They haven't updated WSfU for years now.
Two Hours After Playing with Rust
Apple may benefit from what amounts to a two tiered price structure. They make their money from their mainstream customers who pay full fare for Apple hardware and software. Meanwhile, giving OSX away for use on cheaper hardware supports their app developers while taking business away from potential competitors or innovators.

To be fair, I also suspect that widespread piracy in the early days of personal computers actually contributed to Microsoft's monopoly by creating a price point that nobody could compete with.