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A few terrorists among hundreds of good people have little chance now. Too many canaries. Terrorists will only have their corrupt data invalidated.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow_protection#Cana...

Canaries or canary words are known values that are placed between a buffer and control data on the stack to monitor buffer overflows. When the buffer overflows, the first data to be corrupted will usually be the canary, and a failed verification of the canary data is therefore an alert of an overflow, which can then be handled, for example, by invalidating the corrupted data.
I take your point, and don't disagree, but there's an element of the gestalt of the experience that calls for its being done in its ethnic and ecological context. For many of the people I know through my time down there, the act of taking the journey to the jungle to do this work is an integral part of the process. That is to say, it's not just "jurisdiction shopping" (but by the same token, that doesn't mean there's none of that, either).
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Bruce Schneier has often made the observation that air travel is much safer now, but not because of any of the "Security Theatre" antics of the TSA. Because of two facts: passengers know they should fight back, and cockpits are now behind locked sturdy bulkheads.
Because he removed it from all traces of his site, except for the index.
Before we start, what do you define as a telemarketer?

And how do you define usefulness for humanity?
I haven't been active here, but have an account so I thought I'd chime in (being "the brother"!)...

That was great fun back then and I was (and still am) a total geek. I called the various programs "routines" back then, as they were commonly known.

There was a "plot routine" which would plot points in monochrome or colour, either on screen or on the virtual screen (i.e. the 32Kb of memory that included and went "past" the screen in RAM). The plot routine used fixed point math, which I coded in a separate portion, so was as precise as I wanted it to be. I forgot what that precision was now, but it was something like 4 or 8 bytes.

Then there was the "print routine" which took that memory and output it to the printer.

Finally, the main Mandelbrot/Julia routines were done using a direct translation of the A K Dewdney articles.

All the assembler code was written in a notebook and debugged by hand before even entering it, which was done in the Zeus Assembler. Would be cool if we could locate the notebooks. At least we have the 6510 source code.
Inside Google in 2013 the Pixels were very popular, across the company. I base this on seeing what people carried around.

For the general public, I think that the Pixel is just a little too expensive.
And are there more laws to force you to not simply self-incorporate and contract to your real employer? In the US, that's not supposed to happen, but it does and going against it later means filling against your ex-employer when talking to the IRS.
A quick look at their examples shows a language which looks very much like a reskinned Lua. Which, I should add, is not a bad thing, but they could be more honest about it.
Have you used any of the numerical constraint solving libraries available for many Prolog implementations?[1] (It is also worth noting that Turbo Prolog is a rather peculiar—and now rather old—take on Prolog. I believe it has been superseded by Visual Prolog).

[1]: e.g., SWI Prolog's http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=clpfd, or http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=clpqr
Plugging a 1986 Mac Plus into the Modern Web (2013)
I haven't seen joe for over a decade, got ya beat :)
Also, how are they accounting for survivor bias in the "best of" lists?

I often hear the outliers make claims like "the models predict that we shouldn't exist -- if the analysts are right, there shouldn't be any outliers as good as we are." The implicit argument is that the people claiming "on average, stock pickers don't beat the index" don't know what tehy're talking about. But it's widely acknowledged that the tails are exactly where modeling of this kind tend to fail, so I'm not convinced. A model that gets the tails wrong might still be much better at figuring out expected value, which is what investors should actually care about. How do I make sure that they're not just trying to sell a product with sub-par expected return by chopping off yesterday's heavy tail and waving it around?
It's a nice idea, but could it be made to be mobile friendly? For example when touch scrolling on a device the text scrolls in a choppy fashion rather than smooth with momentum.

I understand this is for desktop, but it would be nice if it could not get in the way of what div/overflow gives us for free.
"You might want to live in Brazil or South Africa for a bit."

I DO live in South Africa, thank you. I have for the last 8 years. So then, how does that affect your point? Are you implying I don't know what it's like living in a dangerous country because I don't live in one?
> and you have no right to

he has no right to do what? say that he thinks it's a bad idea? of course he does.
This is great! You should consider doing some sort of palette generation to make the back cover not just be white -- maybe find the most common color on the front and use a complementary color as the background.
That's some bad reporting by Bloomberg. The advice against active manage fund isn't that they can't beat the market. It's that they can't beat the market better than random chance. In other words, the argument was that performance of stock picker is a completely random process that follow the standard normal distribution. Some one will beat the market, you can't tell who it is though
Is the name of the Velocity Raptor Mr. Tompkins?
Best proposal ever. Guy surprises girl with original song. Will make you cry
This is 2015 - clearly it's not possible to found a company without living in a tech hub ;)
FWIW, I found it interesting to learn that the Soviet Space shuttle (Buran) was programmed in Prolog.

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/145669/what-s...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)#Overview
“Ludicrous Speed: Designing for Performance on the JVM” by Cliff Moon
I certainly thought about migrating, but not sure it's worth the trouble. SourceForge does have a fork-project button, but I've not tried it and all patch submissions have been in the form of conventional patch files. It sure would be nice if they came in as branches we can merge.

Hmm, I used autoconf from Ubuntu 14.04. Maybe there is an issue with it in MacOS.
nice list! was this always on the mirageos site? i remember spending some time poking around specifically looking for something like this, and coming up blank. (suggestion: link to it from the "contributing to mirage" page as well)
> Nicholas’s focus on avoiding losses helped him in 2008, when he beat 93 percent of peers, and in 2011, when he beat 96 percent as the S&P 500 gained 2.1 percent.

So, survivor bias - this guy happens to be the current unicorn. To give a tech comparison, imagine it's 1980 and you're trying to pick who would be on top of the heap of the tech industry in 2015. There's not much more than a dartboard chance.

I wonder what the real ROI is compared to a simple S&P 500 tracking index fund with all additional fees taken into account for both cases.
The phrases "pass-by-reference" and "object reference" need to be (and are) well-defined for the purposes of this discussion and for Java as it stands alone separate from C++.

But also, for the purposes of this discussion, it is very useful and illustrative to equate pass-by-reference to C++ references, and object references to C++ pointers, because the languages are similar and the concepts match up very well, and because these things are more explicit in C++.

Sure, one could have defined everything without comparing to C++ (in fact that is what the JLS does) but, for the purposes of this discussion, many of us assumed that wasn't good enough for many posters here, because if it was, this discussion wouldn't exist.
> The same ingredients in the u.s. are disgusting - flavorless chicken and pork, sour beef, horrible bread...

Of course. Most of the mass produced stuff is horrible. Think about pork for example. They even put on the "other white meat" branding. Pork isn't supposed to be white. Now if you want to say that about a lot of the beautiful heirloom-y meats and produce in the farmers markets in the US, you're absolutely incorrect.

> This stuff that's popular in s.f. right now seems like a step backwards to 1950s 'high-tech' food. First slurm or whatever that gray goop was, and now mayonnaise made with peas. Yeah, sounds great.

Actually, the just mayo is fairly decent. I make my own mayo most of the time, but I can see where they're coming from with it. It's got some nice acidity and is smooth like homemade. They're also having some of the best chefs in the world working with the stuff to make sure it's up there from a quality perspective. Also, they're trying to attack things from a sustainability perspective which is pretty interesting. Is it worth it that the 6 eggs you used to make mayo cost around 300 gallons of water to make? Combine that with the fact that most factory farmed eggs taste horrible to begin with. I'm happy some place is looking at the quality _and_ sustainability.
Thanks for posting this fractallyte! We're separated by an ocean, so I'm glad I can see this digitised.

To answer you dang (first, I don't consider myself that), I work as a consultant currently writing C#/.NET code for a large corporation. But hopefully one of my side projects (using various other technology stacks) will pan out one day, and I'll be able to escape, like many of us here dream about (and many have already achieved) :)
The psychedelic state and its effect on the default mode network
Note, this is probably troll copypasta from some recent article.
We aren't taking about implementation details when we talk about object references being pointers in Java. It is actually the language level terminology that is correct to use absent of any specific implementation. See the JLS.
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It doesn't work that way. How could it possibly work that way? That would mean that the first item you buy each pay period would cost $1500 + its old price, and all other items were normally priced. Perhaps prices for all goods would rise, but you're still able to buy things, unlike the "making 0" scenario.
Doesn't load in Kenya. Had to go through http://teleport.to
little node-webkit?
Watch doesn't work as a Veblen product because it falls into the uncanny valley of not quite being unaffordable enough.

A $1,000,000 watch in a limited edition of 25 would do much less damage to the brand than a $17,000 watch in a limited edition of ????

Median buyers know that they can never afford $1,000,000 for a watch. So at that price it remains a celebrity fantasy product, and some the fantasy gets reflected onto the rest of the range.

$small-number,000 is - paradoxically - almost, but not quite, affordable. It's not any more expensive than many cars, and people buy those all the time.

But the only extra value is the case and the strap. So it looks a like you're paying a lot to pay a lot, and getting something very mass market for the money.

With a nicer strap and case. But people don't buy watches for the strap or the case.

Now you have an "exclusive" product that isn't producing the right exclusivity signals, but at the same time it's expensive enough to seem gratuitously and irritatingly unreachable.

There's nothing insanely great about this. I don't think Steve Jobs would have done it. (I mean - who knows? But historically, there's good reason to suspect this wouldn't have worked for him.)
We tend to think that as history progresses, more and more taboos are broken and we're freer today to publish or lampoon ideas, people and events than in the past. One thing that's surprised me about satirical images from the 18th century is how bold they sometimes are.

For example, here's an anonymous cartoon from 1740 mocking Thomas Walpole - a prominent British politician and banker.

http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleimages/dl/000000/lwlpr...

Here is a quote from a BBC documentary explaining the image:
"There was a new force at work in Georgian society: satire. One of the Georgian age's most notorious images is Walpole's huge naked bottom blocking the way into the Treasury. To get on in 18th century government, this is what you had to kiss" [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/-EDmxfSydCw?t=50m18s
@strathmeyer - you say that you have never met anyone who would help you so here you go: I will. Contact me at this handle at gmail (I don't always check that address but I will check it for the next week or so). I will share my background and let you decide if you will find it valuable.
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This looks interesting, but just like with any new technology, I like to look at any alternatives besides the proposed technology and see how it stacks up. So I guess my question would be, what are the alternatives to this? Or even what are the alternate methods to implementing some of the stuff that this language takes care of?
This guy is essentially saying that providing better customer experience would reduce number of clicks and his pageviews and thus his income. I think almost nothing should prevent providing better customer experience. This is also a problem with A/B testing. If your test is optimizing page views or ad revenue as opposed to customer satisfaction, you are probably doing it wrong. Better matrix might be increase in number of unique users or return rate or user churn rate or session abandonments rate etc.
I want to like this idea. I agree that the world's food supply is a critical issue. But I'm just not agreeing with some of the underlying assumptions.

Are eggs really the problem we need to be solving? Sure, commercial chickens farms are scary. But locally sourced eggs / backyard chickens makes more sense to me than commercially produced egg substitutes.

After all, how are those peas being produced? Is it a large monoculture operation, involving massive amount of chemicals and fertilizer? Or is it sustainable and organic? Can the operation scale if it becomes as successful as the current industry leaders?

To be fair, a brief article probably can't get into enough depth to answer those questions - maybe these guys have good answers. I'm just a bigger proponent of the local food movement vs. a new take on commercial operations.
Well, nw.js[1] to be precise. It is a pretty small application.

[1] https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/
we are everywhere and we're not even java
It's been working ok in Estonia for a decade: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Estonia

Sure there are risks to online voting but it's significantly less risky than many of the other pieces of critical infrastructure that rely on the Internet. The risks of online voting can generally be controlled through policy and oversight, in a similar way to non-online elections.
Making the referenced object const doesn't change anything. Fill in the '?':

void f(Foo* x) { Foo y; *x = y; }
void f(Foo& x) { Foo y; x = y; }

void f(const Foo* x) { const Foo y; x = &y; }
void f(const Foo& x) { const Foo y; ?; }
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I don't really know of too many sophisticated military weapons that don't require contractor support. The military doesn't really hire professional engineers. The involved enlisted serve as maintenance crew and understand basics and know how to read manuals and use tools, officers fly and command things. Even the vocational schools for the enlisted that learn to do the maintenance on such equipment are often taught by civilians. Engineering takes a lot of schooling which would be on the level of an officer, but officers are commanders. Officers are management, not usually individual contributors except for maybe in the medical field where nurses are officers.
I LOVE Kenya so it's nothing personal!! My mum grew up in Mombasa and Nairobi. The site is hosted on Digital Ocean in NY - I've just enabled Cloudflare so hopefully that might sort things out. Sorry, but thanks for letting me know.
You most definitely can beat the market, and beat it by a lot. However, the bigger your holdings, the less likely it is to beat the market, since your trade execution suffers the more you're trying to trade at a time (try selling off 100K shares in something when the daily volume is less than a million, for instance).

Anyhow, half the point of a hedge fund isn't even to beat the market, but to hedge against market downturns. The ones beating the market are prop traders and the like...
>This reasoning was based on the assessment that the cost of fuel wasn’t that high, but the service forgot that B-52s are voracious users of air-to-air refuel- ing. By the time the gas comes out of a KC-135 tanker’s boom, the delivery cost has increased by a factor of 15

How is this kind of oversight even possible?

Also, this is the crap that got copied onto my clipboard when I tried to copy that quote:

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Fucking obnoxious.
I wouldn't say that's true, but I am unable to comment further.
Hi ... thanks .. sorry if you had some problems navigating. Can you elaborate on the problem? Would love to know if there is something we are missing.

There are direct links to each service on each card. More detail is initial hidden and requires a click to expand as the screen would have too much information if we expanded everything initially.

Thanks.
You should check your definition of hacking. US intercepting basically all communications passing through its country, forcing companies to give up customer data, weakening encryption protocols should count light years above and beyond the rest.

About individuals, not countries, it still may be the first.
What's popular in S.F. right now isn't that, it's hipster food with locally-sourced ingredients. It's pricey and complicated, but well made. The people doing it care about their craft. It does lack the old-fashioned quality you're talking about, though.
Zeldman: Zen and the Art of Wearable Markup
Do whichever feels right: going for more education will open you up to different jobs, but going into industry will get you 5+ more years of income (which includes retirement savings, doing fun things that cost money, etc.).

Don't forget that you also are going to usually wait longer to have a family if you go to grad school, although not always. That might be a bigger deal breaker than you might realize right now, so think about it.
What backend technology does the site use, is it home-developed or using a commercial/open source engine?
The $10,000 version will have limited availability, in terms of watches produced and where you can actually buy it.

Apple Watch will also be available to preview or try on at Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Isetan in Tokyo and Selfridges in London on April 10. Apple Watch will be for sale on April 24 at these select department store shop-in-shops, and at boutiques in major cities across the world including colette in Paris, Dover Street Market in London and Tokyo, Maxfield in Los Angeles and The Corner in Berlin.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/03/09Apple-Watch-Availa...
Right. Crouton lets you run Linux in a chroot under Chrome OS. This lets you completely replace Chrome OS with your Linux distribution of choice. Both make sense depending on what you're trying to do.
I've heard stories of ultra-expensive breastmilk that is mixed from many donors - it supposedly gives the newborn antibodies from all those moms (expressed in the breastmilk - that's where babies get their antibodies until their own immune systems kick in). Does anyone have more info?

There's a similar concept for general antibody donation, which is given to the immune compromised, called intravenous immuno-globulin (IVIG)[0], which is extremely effective at modulating the immune system and enhancing immunity. Basically, they take blood donations, purify only (some) antibodies, and mix some 10,000 donors so that the resulting donation is well-rounded in its contents.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intravenous_immunoglobulin
Apple Watch Doesn’t Have Safari and You Didn’t Even Notice
You're being too dogmatic about "user experience". If users find more matches on the site, I'd say their experience improved.

Design principles such as 'the user shouldn't find anything difficult', 'things should be as visually pleasing as possible', etc. can be inconsistent sometimes. A better principle is just looking at whether the user goals are being achieved as effectively as possible.
Beating the compiler
Islamic State doxes US soldiers, despite hacking claims data from public sources
I hope you do and also that you continue to participate on Hacker News. Between kens outdoing himself with the wonderful OP, and all the other historical contributions here, this has my vote for the best HN thread in quite a while.
You are being incredibly hyperbolic. There are issues with football, but equating the sport to actual bloodsport (or heroin use... really?) is a ridiculous stretch.

It really doesn't do anything to further the discourse.
The CSS for the vertical text on the binding does not seem to work in Safari.

Example screenshot with chrome on the bottom: http://puu.sh/gLdy2.png
>I ended up retreating to a small town in the mountains and it took about 3 years for my brain to heal.

I wouldn't mind doing that, but that sounds like you'd need a decent amount of cash to do.
I'm in the same position as you. A few weeks ago I started a small project so that I could properly learn angularjs and the js quirks. Been fun so far.

Here is the current status: http://elvispt.github.io/crt/
The Pixel is weird. It'd be a nice laptop if it had a decent amount of storage (I'd be fine with 128GB - My MBA has that much and it can hold every personal project I've ever had, plus my entire music collection - but some would prefer 256 of 512), and a proper keyboard layout (no Super? no Caps Lock?!).

But without those things, it's an overpriced netbook with a CPU far too powerful.
Nice to hear that. Care to share a few more details on how you got to that position in the first place?
Sure, there are a lot of other languages to write this little app in, but why not?
That was actually inspiration for Google's PageRank algorithm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank#History
#microconf2015
"PFIs are perfect, though, if you want to let an external body decide what you need and make you pay for more than 6 times the value of something that doesn’t solve your original problem."

That does seem to be the standard operating procedure for a lot of the US military.
+1. Yup. Sleep is a 98MB wrapper around pmset. :)
Indeed, the European standard is that it is paid by the state, rather than the employers.
funds 4, 5, and 6 on the bloomberg list (the primecap funds) are all closed to new investors. That is one way to try to avoid the problem.
Definitely! The B52 is way obsolete and the F35 can do everything it can do, only faster and better, and stealthier! /s
Oh my goodness, this is amazing. I'm writing this comment using pterosaur. I'm also very happy that it works well with pentadactyl. Great job! Very helpful thing! Before I was using pentadactyl's functionality to open input content in an external editor, but this is so much better.
In New Jersey, at least up to a couple years ago, you could indeed deduct part of your rent (10%?) on the presumption that it had already gone towards property taxes.