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That same Open Firmware Forth system [1], which was developed by Mitch Bradley [2], was not only in the PowerPC Mac bios, but it was originally used for the SparcStation boot roms, and eventually in the OLPC, and it was even an IEEE Standard 1275-1994!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Bradley

In fact: the Open Firmware boot loader and plug-in card firmware interface technology, commonly used by both Sun and Apple, is the only firmware standard in existence to ♫ have its own theme song ♫ [3] !!!

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20070204145613/http://playground...

: OpenFirmwareSong ( 🎸- ♬ )
\ By Mitch Bradley.
\ Sung to the tune of "The Flintstones".
𝄞
." Firmware" cr
." Open Firmware" cr
." It's the appropriate technology," cr
." Features" cr
." FCode booting" cr
." Hierarchical DevInfo tree." cr
." Hack Forth" cr
." Using Emacs on the keys," cr
." Save in" cr
." NVRAM if you please." cr
𝄒 cr
." With your" cr
." Open Firmware" cr
." You can fix the bugs in no time" cr
." Bring the kernel up in no time" cr
." We'll have an FCode time!" cr
𝄒 cr
\ Thank you and good night!
reboot
;
BSD runs in kernel-space as well to provide the typical UNIX functionality (BSD system calls, UNIX-style processes, etc). You can see this in the kernel sources for XNU, which contains a fairly sizable chunk of a BSD kernel:

https://github.com/opensource-apple/xnu/tree/10.10/bsd

There were other projects that used comparable approaches, such as Lites:

http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/lites/html/

No, Its a popular misconception that OSX is based on BSD... its not.

So no, this is not a misconception, it's actually true. Sure, there is BSD in userland as well, but the kernel is Mach and BSD.
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FP isn't a golden bullet, but at least it often helps to get rid of those temporary variable names that clutter the code.
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Wait, when you said

"...the router (last hop before your server) sets up a route for that entire /48 to the link-local address of your server."

Was "your server" the ISP's server, or the customer's server? If the former, why are you saying "server", rather than "router"?
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Well, it's not just the userland. The XNU kernel is a hybrid of Mach (tasks, threads, IPC, VM), BSD (processes, users, devices, networking, system calls, VFS) and IOKit (driver framework)
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You might be interested in ember-paper and ember-cli-materialize if you are looking at Material + Ember.js

- https://github.com/miguelcobain/ember-paper

- https://github.com/truenorth/ember-cli-materialize
This guys father (grandfather?) runs a bookstore in either Lewiston or clarkston. I met him years ago and thought he was slightly crazy bragging about his sons work. Interesting to see it's actually used.
Assuming an intersection, wouldn't it be better to be rear-ended hard than having a vehicle slam into the driver's side door?
No Moon?
No, yummyfajitas' numbers are right, given a 25% tax rate on capital gains and a 2.8% discount rate

consuming immediately gives you 80% of income

assuming you invested all of it, 80$ and made back 10$ which was then taxed at 25%, you're left with 87.5$ out of 110$ in total income.

consuming after a year gives you 87.5/110 = 79.5% of income, 1 year in the future. After discounting at 2.8%, you're left with only 77.38% of income.

In that case, you'd rather splurge than invest.
Of course it is a proof the Greeks are lazy, tax-avoiding thieves. They don't care about Cadastre. They're on the streets for their comfy government jobs and social benefits.

Please don't sell me that socialist BS. I live in ex-socialist country and there is always trash talk about elites, aristocrats and capitalism on our long coffee breaks but guess what? You know what those people cry for? Socialist dictators and God-All-Mighty state.

Grow up. It is your fault mostly.
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Humorous, but relevant. PHP and Wordpress are derided by many, perhaps rightfully so. Despite many well founded claims against them they remain ubiquitous.

Which metric do we use to define success here? Can shitty software be considered successful just because everyone uses it?
All of this information can be derived from a dashcam, and they're ubiquitous today.

And yes, in 10 years time there will be no such notion as 'private travel'. Between your phone's GSM/CDMA, bluetooth and wifi signals and dashcams, security and traffic cameras, there will be dozens of parties who monitor every move any person makes outside of their home in urban or suburban areas (be it by car, foot or bike). With different forms of computer vision, that data is sorted and linked to other recordings of objects and there will be dozens of databases that have exact information on where everybody is, 95+% of the time.

One of my pet research projects (although I'm not making much progress in terms of actual work or publications) is on a system of tracking 'people' in a generalized form. It's basically a concept of 'strands' of information along different axises ('location', 'finance', 'internet', 'health' and a few others) which can be joined by an overarching matching algorithm infrastructure. Furthermore, each 'strand' has a 'source' and one can join datasets by deciding 'this source I know is reliable, take this as truth' or from several less trusted ones by using voting or bayesian inference. It's basically a formalization of 'doxing' - an overarching framework to work with personally identifying data from sources of varying degrees of trustworthiness.

I'm sure many people are working on something like this already, but in private and with the goal of using it against 'us' (for a broad definition of 'us'). The only way (ok, maybe not 'only' way, 'one of' the ways) to defend is to acknowledge that privacy is dead and to develop offensive capacities; much like the only last resort against tyranny is a well-armed populace.
Upvoted, it's a legitimate request coming from an existing HN user. But I think you are being downvoted since there is clearly some astroturfing going on the comments to this post.
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I think of anyone identifying with "IT" and particularly the "IT Industry" as a snake oil salesman.

Technology stocks are staying hot, but nobody thinks of IT as effective. In anything that isn't a technology company, the IT department has rapidly become the slowest moving part of the company. Why hold on to the moniker like it means something?
Some normal cars already have systems like this.
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> I'd like it to be a simple check if any of your partners were STD positive; This is currently information that is hard to get reliably (Sure, your partner can hand you test results, but not verifiable ones; The clinic won't attest to it if you call to reference your partner's results, so you can never be certain it's not a clever photoshop).

If you want verifiable results, you can get them. Get yourself tested at the same place. Accompany your partner to pick up their results. You'll strain the relationship, but you can have the proof.
Have you thought about using Cordova? If you're a web developer you'd be able to get something out quickly as it's all just HTML + JavaScript.
Personally I find this really unsettling for non-technical users. Almost asshole-ish. It's funny to us...but seriously providing a real answer after all that would even be sufficient. Not just answering with a "yes", but with a little blurb on how it is secure.
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Sad to see Africa so empty!

Great job! :)
> There’s no systematic way known how solve ambitious problems. (Otherwise they would have been solved already.)

Such as social networks for cat videos and the like?

Come on, let's stop embellishing IT. Most of the times, we choose not to be systematic or thorough because we are divas. We like to think we're more special than we actually are, that we're too "conceptual" for metrics and that our horizons aren't clearly defined. This is - most of the time - BS. We just happen to have been dealt a good hand (working in IT, nowadays) which allows us to harness the large demand to our egos. IT professionals aren't artists or the like; they should be as systematic as other engineering fields.
I like Richard Gabriel's proposal for a Master of Fine Arts in Software Development degree program. It focuses more on the craft aspects of building software since we still don't know how to do true software engineering in the general case.

http://www.dreamsongs.com/MFASoftware.html
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I've been taught to always hold the break when at a stop light. If you get rear-ended, you won't roll into the intersection. Also, always hold the steering wheel, so you keep control if you get rear-ended.
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Entrust, for instance, allows you to purchase certs essentially on a subscription plan. You may have one valid cert for 3 years (and pay the reduced 3 year rate), and reissue it with 24 hour expirations every day.

I personally wouldn't go with an expiration that low because of the operational overhead, but a few weeks or a month is attractive. It still significantly limits the downside potential versus 1-3 year certs. Basically any cert (non-root) over 1 year should be considered against best practice at this point.
Ripping software licenses of from software is extremely unlikely to be a grey area. The license is what gives a person permission, and if they remove it, so goes the permission. I would compare it to a person boarding a train, and then imminently throwing away the ticket.
The childporn evidence being planted and esp. the violation of the Sudan export restrictions will make a very good case for the procuratore di milano, which famously is very independent.
So they will face jailtime, yeah.
A hilarious Monty Python sketch explains why Greece is in a huge crisis
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I first heard about IPv6 on the front of a British computing magazine in 1997.

For an industry that is supposed to be so cutting edge and innovative and disruptive (urgh), we sure have been slow as shit in transitioning to IPv6.
GPL explicitly permits employers to add contractual rules to employees against copying of internal code.
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What I wonder most about: whenever the Car gets a minor software update, will they (be required to) do again 10,000 hours of test-driving?
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The emergence of human labor-replacing machines could be seen as a boon by certain strands of the far left. Then again, anarcho-primitivists will probably be monkey wrenching those same machines that are allowing them to not work. Either way, let's get people excited about lifelong leisure. It seems inevitable on our current course, anyway.
Oh, so when someone doesn't lie to you it's unsettling?

The only way to know if something is secure is when it's adopted en-mass and you see if it really was secure or not. You could read the WinXP pamphlet on security back when it was released and it had endless bullet points about how secure it was. It was probably the least secure software in the history of computing based on actual attacks after the fact.

Security isn't something you provide an answer to unless you're selling snake oil. Luckily, it seems most people prefer buying snake oil and are happy to eat up a vendor telling them how secure an utterly untested product is.

Security theory is not something you can understand as a non-technical user anyway.
Many things are like that. Tiny little steps in materials science suddenly enable a whole new field to come into play.

It would be interesting to see a breakdown for many items that we take for granted to the key materials science breakthroughs that enable their functioning.
I'm finding that good old fashioned processes are a pretty good and long forgotten virtualization system!

Not only that you can manage them very easily with stable tools like ansible and deploy them as packages (rpms).

Our native IO and bare metal HP DL380s go crazy fast with hundreds of processes running.
According to the trial, Pao slept with a married colleague and then tried using it as leverage for the next few years. It's ugly but certainly a relevant aspect of Pao's character.
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> Rikaisama

This is most likely an addon, a Firefox extension written in (mostly) JS and XUL. Plugins are the external runtimes embedded in browsers with NSAPI &al: Flash, Java, Silverlight, etc...
I remember reading it too but I can't find it. The hamster wheel comment in this thread was good though:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9823886
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You can download a beta version of Fileloupe at the link above and take it for a spin. Note that this is a beta for version 1.1 so some features are present that haven't yet made it to the Mac App Store version. If you find that Fileloupe is of value to you, then I'd love to have your support in the Mac App Store.
It is not possible to subscribe to feeds individually ? For instance I would like to subscribe only for the engineering RSS feed. At the moment all I could find was a general feed for the entire blog.
Ask HN: How to learn about the history of computing?
It is often remarked in the comments here that our "field" appears to have a very bad memory; that we repeat past mistakes and ignore past learnings. I would like to interpret these remarks as an advice to "get schooled".

What are some good sources (books?) to get started on this? Most things I can find appear to stop at Turing / Von Neumann, but one would like to think that history hasn't stopped at that point in time.
Auto Layout and cola.js have a common lineage. Kim Marriott and Peter Stuckey are authors of the original Cassowary paper and are members of the MArVL research group at Monash University that publishes cola.js and related technologies.
When you first add a new plugin it is reviewed, but once it's been accepted you are free to push out whatever changes you want without review.
He didn't really change careers. He built a 32-bit processor for Computervision fairly soon after leaving Data General and has done plenty of stuff since [1].

[1] http://www.polybus.com/hdlmaker/Resume.html
It's not as bad as those dots with radius in tens of kilometers would make you think.
Yes, I remember JTrack! Great to see it 'get an update' in the form of this new site.
The keyboard shortcuts are still very much influx. The Escape key used to close the viewer, but then enough other people wanted the Escape key to take them back to the grid view, so I changed it. People really seem to like to use the Escape key and the space bar which causes a lot of usability issues because their functionality gets so overloaded. (Escape is also overloaded to exit from full screen mode, while the space bar both switches from grid mode to the viewer and toggles play/pause on the media controls.)

I doubt I'll ever get a sequence of shortcuts that makes everyone happy. Maybe something like "Command-Period" might work for closing the viewer so long as the embedded PDF viewer doesn't swallow any shortcuts.
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Tried Polymer in a recent project for a basic social webapp last month. Within 2 days we found ourselves reading github issues about to-be-released customization options - options that we needed. The basic features are present alright, but the customization options aren't enough. Integrating modals with custom scrolling, wanting more than 5 options for spacing in the header - why give yourself a hard time when materialize and foundation are waiting with their arms open?
People have built businesses thanks to that shitty software, important news have been broken by tech unsavvy bloggers that created a website very easily thanks to the platform, hordes of youngsters approached programming writing a shitty Wordpress plugin...
You would still call that a failure just because it doesn't use elegant software according to the standards of a community of professional that never come to terms with its hindering perfectionism?
Do you mean the ones in geostationary orbit above the equator? If so: "A geostationary orbit can only be achieved at an altitude very close to 35,786 km (22,236 mi), and directly above the Equator. This equates to an orbital velocity of 3.07 km/s (1.91 mi/s) or an orbital period of 1,436 minutes, which equates to almost exactly one sidereal day or 23.934461223 hours. This ensures that the satellite will match the Earth's rotational period and has a stationary footprint on the ground. All geostationary satellites have to be located on this ring." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit#Orbital_st...
http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/
I think the only way to have safe driving with autonomous vehicles is to have roadways that are autonomous vehicles only. When autonomous vehicles become commercially viable, I think having dedicated autonomous freeways can really remove a lot of the randomness and dangers of driving. We might be a 100 years away from this prospect, but it would be great if we lost no more lives on freeways due to car accidents.
Really nice feature for the cli. The generated images could get a lot of more optimized though. The example.gif file ~2.5 MiB large, uses 100 ms frames and each frame updates the whole area. Some optimization suggestions:

* Use variable length frames
* Only update areas that change between frames

For apng:
* Use a palette, it can even handle 4 bits per channel palettes which could be enough for terminals.

Maybe these are all not necessary, a naive "gifsicle --optimize" reduced example.gif's size to ~150 KiB. It didn't remove frames though.
So it's a DHT, so it's decentralized, pretty nice, but I still don't understand the purpose of this. Is this trying to improve security ? If so, how ?

What I'm more interested in, is a protocol that can let people share data on a DHT, which is resistant to denial of service and other security issues. I guess freenet is that already (somehow), but it's really not usable.

There are so many things in bitcoin I'd love to see in other standards, especially for messaging and forums. It would make things so much harder for the NSA and advertisers.
Ask HN: Yesterday I was diagnosed with personality disorder. What’s helped you?
I’m 30 and I’ve known things haven’t been right for over 25 years.

I run a fairly successful freelance business (which allows me to flex my hours when I cannot cope). I’m married & home life is stable; it’s just high anxiety, stress makes me emotionally unstable, dissociation, cut off from feelings, outbursts and I cannot sustain friendships or work relationships, burning bridges, flashbacks, no confidence in myself, and not knowing who I am.

I know the childhood trauma that caused most issues.

The psychologist labelled me as “Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder”, but I’d say I show signs of Paranoid/Borderline/Avoidant/OCPD.

In the UK’s wonderful NHS they don’t have options: I’ve been referred onwards to the “complex needs service”, which is group work and therapeutic communities, and geared towards people who can’t hold down a job, or housing, or who are coming with an addiction.

I spent 6 of the last 10 years doing counselling; the effect never lasted and was with the last counsellor for 4 years, until I realised she was never going to discharge me and would keep my sessions going forever if she could (opinion of 1 doctor and another outsider, not just me). Having spent that much privately I’m now looking to the NHS in the hope they could help.

I am reflective and can step out of myself and say what’s wrong; I just don’t know how to act on that knowledge.

I’ve found mindfulness helped the last 3 months - at least until watching the breath brought on terror and panic attacks (breathing links back to the trauma I experienced).

What has helped you? I’m willing to try anything (preferably things backed by research). I’ve read Daniel Siegal’s Mindsight, Russ Harris’s ACT primer for therapists; I eat healthily, and don’t exercise anywhere near enough.

Any feedback much appreciated, whether it’s how to deal with the NHS to get help, things that have helped you, or anything else at all. I wish to start living life.
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Everyone needs something to be proud of...
I'm sure there's money in recycling/reusing the rare and expensive metals and components of now-defunct satellites, but I think it would probably encounter a) resistance from the owners of those satellites if it's not just an altruistic cleanup job sanctioned by governments, and b) related to what you say, the cost of actually performing the task would undoubtedly outweigh any money recouped.
Classic "why didn't I think of that"
It seems possible that when Asimov first conceived of the laws of robotics, he thought it would all work out very nicely and only realised the negative consequences later.
They are the geostationary satellites (1 orbit takes 24h)
Are you a dev and interested in improving healthcare?

We just moved to Oakland for cheaper rent. Mostly ok, but it is fun to play "was that fireworks or gunshots" once a day.
Hi all, I'm the lead researcher on this topic at Utrecht University. Willing to answer any and all questions you might have :-)
title naming in hackernews is so copy-cat. this is the 3rd time I see a title "the unreasonable effectiveness" of X. After the first very successful post.
I wrote a forth tutorial in two parts:

http://git.annexia.org/?p=jonesforth.git;a=blob_plain;f=jone...

http://git.annexia.org/?p=jonesforth.git;a=blob_plain;f=jone...
on the other hand the chances of coming across a virus made for TempleOS is rather unlikely.
There are options like Alea,

http://www.quantalea.com/

Besides, on .NET there is also F#